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Britain Arrests 9 in Terrorist Kidnapping Plot(kidnap,torture,behead, broadcast over Internet)
NYT ^
| 02/01/07
| ALAN COWELL
Posted on 01/31/2007 9:53:17 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Britain Arrests 9 in Terrorist Kidnapping Plot
By ALAN COWELL
LONDON, Jan. 31 The British police conducted a series of raids on Wednesday, arresting nine suspects on terrorism charges in what appeared to be a shift in the tactics of terrorism in Britain. The suspects are accused of devising a plot that included plans to kidnap, torture and behead a British Muslim soldier and broadcast video images of his killing on the Internet.
The arrests, in the central city of Birmingham, were part of what the authorities called a major operation involving hundreds of officers after months of preparation. Eight suspects were arrested in eight different homes, and a ninth was seized on a highway near the city, the police said. Four businesses were also searched.
We are right at the foothills of a very major investigation for us, Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw, the Birmingham police officer leading the inquiry, said at a news conference. He declined to describe any details of the case or identify the suspects by name.
However, the British news media have widely reported details of the supposed plot, which have not been officially denied. If true, the plan would be a marked departure from previous terrorist plots, like the July 7, 2005, London bombings, intended to cause mass fatalities using explosives.
Last August, for instance, British and American investigators said they averted a plot by terrorists to use liquid explosives to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners carrying hundreds of people. A plan of this kind would also support what counterterrorism experts have depicted as the central role of the Internet in modern insurgencies and conspiracies to broadcast propaganda and spread images. Web sites have been widely used to broadcast gruesome images of beheadings in Iraq and to spread militant Islamic views.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; enemywithin; eurabia; fifthcolumn; kidnapping; londonistan; muslimsoldier; terrorist; ukterror
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To: Cindy
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posted on
01/31/2007 9:53:45 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, kae jong-il, chia head, pogri, midget sh*tbag)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The BBC, Rueters, and liberals will claim they are victims of British racist society that isn't multicultural enough.
3
posted on
01/31/2007 10:03:15 PM PST
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The gave it to Arafat, so why not?
4
posted on
01/31/2007 10:04:28 PM PST
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: Proud_USA_Republican
whoops that was a mistake. Never mind.
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posted on
01/31/2007 10:05:07 PM PST
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: TigerLikesRooster; snugs; MadIvan; All
AHHH GULITY ROFL
HEY UK you done alot try get these people to assilmate sometime person don't want advice they end up in trouble
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posted on
01/31/2007 10:10:31 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is it just me or do the internet videos by Biden, Hillary Clinton and Obama (announcing their exploratory committees) seem like the only thing missing is a masked Islamic militant and a knife?
Not to mean I am a proponent of their beheadings, it just seems weird to me to see their videos online instead of a live news conference.
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posted on
01/31/2007 10:19:20 PM PST
by
RushCrush
(Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Kidnapping, torture, beheading, and videotaping the event is hardly a "new tactic" for these vermin.
Where has Alan Cowell been these past few years?
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posted on
01/31/2007 10:32:52 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Well, it's 2007. Time to get ready for 2008.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
So, are the guys they arrested Amish or what? The article doesn't mention anything about their background. OH! (smacks forehead)... this is the NYSlimes! Silly me. /s
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posted on
01/31/2007 10:43:20 PM PST
by
RedCell
("...thou shalt kill thine enemy before he killeth you by any means available" - Dick Marcinko)
To: TigerLikesRooster
News is that one of the men arrested owns and runs an Islamic bookshop.
Previous address: Gitmo Bay!
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posted on
02/01/2007 12:18:34 AM PST
by
vimto
(Life is not a dry run.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
If it happened in the USA I'm sure Kerry, Kennedy, Fine-Swine, Schumer, Clinton & Co would say that:
1) Its Bush Fault !!!
2) We need to be more understanding to these poor misunderstood and misguided people; and then proceed to give them several billion of our hard earned USA tax dollars to appease them.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Once again....Pakistani immigrants behaving "badly"..
The frequency in which Pakistani immigrants are involved in radical and murderous behavior -- is reaching epidemic levels..
How long before these apparently genetically inbred and predispositioned assholes are refused exit from their own Turd World " paradise...
Semper Fi
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posted on
02/01/2007 12:28:00 AM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I would like to have seen the authorities infiltrate the group and arrange for them to kidnap the wrong person. Then, after the tape has been shown worldwide, announce that they person who was killed was not some hapless British soldier who happened to be a Muslim, but rather one of their own. How great to have heard his protestations that he was on their side as they hacked at his neck with a dull knife.
To: vimto
News is that one of the men arrested owns and runs an Islamic bookshop.Previous address: Gitmo Bay!
Good gad. Not again.
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posted on
02/01/2007 3:42:04 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: TigerLikesRooster
What a steamin' pile of crapola in the last 5 paragraphs from the Slimes.
Muzzies howling about backlash and being afraid and cynical about these raids. Typical islam-supporting apologetic crap from the Slimes.
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posted on
02/01/2007 4:22:31 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(The media is lying to you on an hourly basis.)
To: prairiebreeze
Indeed, Salma Yaqoob, a member of the Birmingham City Council representing the antiwar Respect Party, said: Theres a shock and disbelief that these arrests are being made in such a high-profile manner. People are very concerned about the social backlash. ie...more rioting by the ROP...more crap copy from the New York Slimes
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posted on
02/01/2007 5:36:01 AM PST
by
Edgerunner
(Better RED state than DEAD state)
To: prairiebreeze
Indeed, Salma Yaqoob, a member of the Birmingham City Council representing the antiwar Respect Party, said: Theres a shock and disbelief that these arrests are being made in such a high-profile manner. People are very concerned about the social backlash. ie...more rioting by the ROP...more crap copy from the New York Slimes
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posted on
02/01/2007 5:44:30 AM PST
by
Edgerunner
(Better RED state than DEAD state)
To: vimto
Wonder if we'll ever see the previous address reported in the US media. I doubt it.
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posted on
02/01/2007 6:11:23 AM PST
by
livius
To: prophetic
3) "Conservatives" would say their civil rights are being violated, but that such a plot is more evidence of why we need to close the border with Mexico.
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posted on
02/01/2007 6:46:03 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(When "bipartisan study groups" prosecute wars, you get Another Viet Nam)
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