A foiled plot in Britain may signal chilling tactic

Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 01, 2007 | Mark Rice-Oxley

[fgoodwin]

British security officials were claiming Wednesday to have foiled a terrorist plot which would have imported for the first time to Britain the grisly Iraq-style tactic of kidnapping a victim, torturing and beheading him and filming the atrocity for broadcast on the Internet.

In what police characterized as "the foothills of a major investigation," at least nine arrests were made at a dozen addresses in and around Birmingham, England, including homes, an Islamic bookshop, and a cybercafe,

The suspects were the latest in a succession of hundreds arrested under terrorism legislation introduced seven years ago. Last August, 21 people were arrested in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights.

But experts said this plot's new tactic, if confirmed, would amount to a significant departure in strategy. Thus far, the public has focused its concern on the possibility of suicide bombers seeking to emulate the perpetrators of the July 7, 2005, bombings that killed 52 people. The prospect of being snatched from the street, paraded before video cameras, and decapitated was considered a horror peculiar only to countries like Iraq.

"A plot to kidnap, torture, and execute an individual in the heart of England, and film the gruesome events on a videotape for posting on the Internet, represents a new chilling escalation in tactics by the global jihadi terror groups and carries grave implications for all western nations," says MJ Gohel, a terrorism expert with the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation.

"In the past, we have witnessed the brutal beheadings of Western hostages in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, but for it to happen in a major British city would send shock waves to millions of people throughout Europe and the world."

[StAnDeliver]

"the same as with those starved to death in hospitals."

What about those starved to death in hospices? But it just doesn't qualify as "Must See TV"...

[StAnDeliver]

"Neville Chamberlain was responsible for tremendous loss of life, just as the Democrat Congress will be again in the future. It's hard to imagine that these people can be so stupid as to repeat the same mistakes over and over again."

You're kidding, right? The only thing that kept Bojinka from happening last July was Echelon, which the Democrats want to dismantle to appease their self-loathing Leftist cadre, who regard the Constituion as a suicide pact.

[Neoliberalnot]

"Neville Chamberlain was responsible for tremendous loss of life, just as the Democrat Congress will be again in the future. It's hard to imagine that these people can be so stupid as to repeat the same mistakes over and over again."

Liberal thinking suggests that no idea of theirs can be wrong which is why they repeat the same stupid mistakes thinking that if the stars are aligned properly they might succeed once in a hundred trys thereby proving they were in fact, right. If you make a stupid mistake just keep repeating it and eventually it will correct itself.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I guess that one didn't count since it happened in Pakistan.

But try telling that to his family.

[The_Reader_David]

Like my tagline says

And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about.

--Slobodan Milosevic, on the occasion of the International Kangaroo Court for the Former Yugoslavia's refusal to display photos of Muslims exhulting over the heads and bodies of decapitates Serbs for the viewing gallery

But Bush, Blair, the whole crew at Foggy Bottom and all the Eurodhimmis still want to give Kosovo to the Muslims in hope the crocodile will eat them later.