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Report: Thousands Plotting U.K. Attacks
AP via brietbart ^ | Feb 24 11:43 PM US/Eastern | AP

Posted on 02/24/2007 9:30:34 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

LONDON (AP) -- The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the Sept. 11 attacks, a British Sunday newspaper reported, citing a leaked intelligence document.

More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month that The Sunday Telegraph said it had seen.

"The scale of al-Qaida's ambitions toward attacking the U.K. and the number of U.K. extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged," the newspaper quoted the document as saying.

It said the document was being circulated between the Home Office, defense ministry, MI5 intelligence agency and Scotland Yard's Anti- Terrorist Branch.

The Home Office declined to comment on the report, but said in a statement that security arrangements are under constant review.

"As (MI5 Director-General) Eliza Manningham-Buller has stated publicly, the threat of terrorism in the U.K. is very real and includes the intent to kill people and damage our economy," the statement said.

Manningham-Buller said in November that 1,600 people were suspected of involvement in terrorist plots against British targets.

Four suicide bombers killed 52 commuters in July 2005 transit attacks in London and security officials say they have foiled at least six other plots. Officials expect the number of plots to increase this year, newspaper said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; internment; terrorattacks; terrorism; wot

1 posted on 02/24/2007 9:30:37 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

At least Britain will have its demise captured on surveillance video for posterity.


2 posted on 02/24/2007 9:47:21 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Jet Jaguar

Yet Britain is so wanting the USA to avoid war with Iran and to avoid any friendship with Israel, that even her most conservative, wide-circulation publications are trying to propagandize in favor of Iran.

It will get a lot worse, if we don't all get with it and put aside old vanities and cravings for "empire."


3 posted on 02/24/2007 9:49:11 PM PST by familyop
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To: Jet Jaguar

The civilized West is gradually learning that it sort of sucks to give savages who want to hang you the rope to do it with...


4 posted on 02/24/2007 9:52:32 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: Jet Jaguar
More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks...

Just a friendly suggestion to the British, an abandoned North Sea oil drilling platform would make an ideal improvised detention facility should one be needed.
5 posted on 02/24/2007 9:57:55 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

I'm with you. It may come down to rounding up all those with the 'appearance' for terrorism.

But some people will be PC even up to the point of the blade slicing the first layer of skin.


6 posted on 02/24/2007 10:07:32 PM PST by uptoolate (If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
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To: SpaceBar

Just a friendly suggestion to the British,round up the Mooooooslim pieces of dung in your country and throw em in the English Channel !!!


7 posted on 02/24/2007 10:17:21 PM PST by Obie Wan
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To: Obie Wan
round up the Mooooooslim pieces of dung ...

Works for me.
8 posted on 02/24/2007 10:27:34 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Maybe Britian should ask why so many terrorists are based in their country.


9 posted on 02/24/2007 11:27:06 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Has the UK considered muslim internment camps?
10 posted on 02/25/2007 12:19:53 AM PST by Jaysun (I took one look at her unfashionable eyebrows and thought to myself, "she's literally crazy.")
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To: SpaceBar

Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.
11 posted on 02/25/2007 12:29:31 AM PST by oyez
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To: Obie Wan
Just a friendly suggestion to the British,round up the Mooooooslim pieces of dung in your country and throw em in the English Channel !!!

No. They'll just swim back to France. The North Sea in Winter is a better choice.

BTW, with our open borders, I'm sure we have a lot streaming into the USA. The sad part is, by not enforcing the law, we condone terrorist attacks here on our soil.

Oh well. After the next 9-11 people will again resume the mantra: "We Will Never Forget" for less time than the news coverage of Anna Nicole, and go back to business as usual.

12 posted on 02/25/2007 1:52:07 AM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Jet Jaguar

All they need to do is blow up the petrol stations they manage.


13 posted on 02/25/2007 5:55:18 AM PST by syriacus (6 months into Truman's Korean War -- CENSORSHIP imposed; 11,000 US deaths; thousands more DRAFTED.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Is it time to detain the lot of them yet?


14 posted on 02/25/2007 6:04:57 AM PST by omega4179 (Hitler had a "Rockstar" personality and was an articulate speaker.)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

When they do they will be smeared as xenophobic nazis like the BNP.

http://www.spearhead.com/


15 posted on 02/25/2007 6:06:47 AM PST by omega4179 (Hitler had a "Rockstar" personality and was an articulate speaker.)
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