Posted on 12/15/2006 12:30:55 AM PST by neverdem
Pakistan's getting worse on the terrorism front - or maybe the problem has just grown more obvious. Either way, we've got a major terrorism threat on our hands.
Britain's domestic spooks, the MI5, revealed last month that they've foiled five terror attacks since the horrific 7/7 subway-bus bombings in London in 2005. That's great news. But now they're tracking 30 new plots, involving 200 cells and 1,600 people in the United Kingdom - mostly of Pakistani origin, according to the Financial Times.
Of course, those are just the plots they know of . . .
Worse, British intelligence said they believe that al Qaeda is regrouping in Pakistan, which could put the United Kingdom - because of its substantial South Asian ties - at significant risk of more terrorism.
And MI5 doesn't believe that Britain is al Qaeda's lone target by any means: It could easily be a stepping stone for Pakistani-originated/assisted terror attacks elsewhere, including in the United States (still al Qaeda's No.1 mark), Canada and continental Europe.
We've already had a close call on that nightmarish front: Last summer's plan by home-grown, U.K.-based al Qaeda acolytes to bring down 10 or so U.S.-bound airliners over the Atlantic using liquid explosives, could've killed as many or more people as the 9/11 plot.
That plan, too, had ties into Pakistan. Plus, it was even nastier than originally thought: They didn't plan to destroy the airliners over the Atlantic, but over U.S. cities - to kill as many as possible.
Then there's Dhiren Barot - the Pakistan-trained British convert to Islam. Considered al Qaeda's top U.K. operative, he was convicted last month for plotting to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and other sites with help from Osama's Pakistan crowd.
Radicalized by local imams,...
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"Worse, British intelligence said they believe that al Qaeda is regrouping in Pakistan, which could put the United Kingdom - because of its substantial South Asian ties - at significant risk of more terrorism."
The-Cows-Come-Home Ping!
Serves them right.
HAHAHAHA! Inshallah!
Gotta LOVE the Pakistanis! They really know how to play both ends.
I thought the world was at risk from these two countries. Anyways, yes....... serves them right.
Musharaff has managed to save his country from annihilation so far; gotta respect him for that. He knows that if the Americans and the Indians team up his country is toast. We stopped India from nuking the Paks at least twice before. Will Pakistan end up as the best example of what happens when islamonazis steer their country towards destruction? We could see the first nuclear war of the 21st century.
"He knows that if the Americans and the Indians team up his country is toast."
He is very sure that just wont happen if he can play his game to perfection. He had done just that. The result is he has managed to keep the Al Qeada (and OBL), the entire terror industry alive and also managed to keep America in line.
>>Pakistan's getting worse on the terrorism front - or maybe the problem has just grown more obvious.
It's lines like this that make you guffaw at what passes for incisive commentary.
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