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Al-Qaeda ‘planning big British attack’
The Sunday Times ^ | April 22 2007 | Dipesh Gadher

Posted on 04/22/2007 8:22:17 PM PDT by noname247

AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.

Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West.

Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a “change in the head of the company”.

The intelligence report also makes it clear that senior Al-Qaeda figures in the region have been in recent contact with operatives in Britain.

It follows revelations last year that up to 150 Britons had travelled to Iraq to fight as part of Al-Qaeda’s “foreign legion”. A number are thought to have returned to the UK, after receiving terrorist training, to form sleeper cells.

“A member of this network is reportedly involved in an operation which he believes requires AQ Core authorisation. He claims the operation will be on ‘a par with Hiroshima and Naga-saki’ and will ‘shake the Roman throne’. We assess that this operation is most likely to be a large-scale, mass casualty attack against the West.”

Analysts believe the reference to Hiroshima and Naga-saki, where more than 200,000 people died in nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of the second world war, is unlikely to be a literal boast.

“It could be just a reference to a huge explosion,” said a counter-terrorist source. “They [Al-Qaeda] have got to do something soon that is radical otherwise they start losing credibility.”

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; islam; muhammadsminions
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To: Aria
Nah, Bin Laden would threaten TO RETURN her as a means to
remove us from the middle east!...JJ61
21 posted on 04/22/2007 8:49:32 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: Flavius

As Frederick the Great said, “Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.” Which countries in the West can therefore really conduct diplomacy with teeth. Now only one. It is a sad state of affairs.

The European solution is to talk, concede, and then talk some more when the other side does not live up to its side of the deal.


22 posted on 04/22/2007 8:50:02 PM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
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To: ALASKA
"Should this happen, Iran will be a Sea of Glass"

If bringing down 240 stories of American iconic architecture and flying a plane into US Military headquarters isn't answered by raining unchecked death upon the perpetrators then why would any other attack? 9/11 wasn't funsies.

(Not implying anyone thinks 9/11 was funsies. That's my point.. all agree it was of sufficient magnitude to warrant any response.)


23 posted on 04/22/2007 8:50:36 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Roy Tucker

Good post.


24 posted on 04/22/2007 8:51:52 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: EYE33

Jeepers. My 13-year old grandson looks older than that.


25 posted on 04/22/2007 8:54:20 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: EYE33

Welcome to FR, btw. :)


27 posted on 04/22/2007 9:00:16 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Flavius

You know what though? There are just as many that aren’t willing to concede the war. they realize we’re winning and are ready for the sacrifice. I am one. You are two. F#$k those haters.


28 posted on 04/22/2007 9:00:59 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Islam cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas, so they car bomb it instead.)
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To: EYE33

i want to punch this kid’s face off. I am not even kidding...


29 posted on 04/22/2007 9:02:01 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Islam cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas, so they car bomb it instead.)
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To: I see my hands
aining unchecked death upon the perpetrators

The further we get from 9/11 without an attack the harder it will be to convince a lazy populace that there are dirty days ahead...
30 posted on 04/22/2007 9:04:15 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Islam cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas, so they car bomb it instead.)
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To: Roy Tucker
Concisely stated and absolutely correct....JJ61
31 posted on 04/22/2007 9:07:01 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: JerseyJohn61

It all depends if the attack is before or after Nov. 4, 2008.


32 posted on 04/22/2007 9:12:05 PM PDT by Sundog (envision whirled peas.)
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To: Aria
"Pelosi.. [might] go have a chat with Bin Laden."

Good thinking! Funny and maybe true.

Those on the left are so bravely and blatantly anti American I'm often rendered stupefied. To engage with them in debate is to surrender reality.


33 posted on 04/22/2007 9:13:43 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: steel_resolve

Couldn’t agree more...what a pathetic state for British armed forces. Nelson must be turning over in his grave.


35 posted on 04/22/2007 9:21:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: steel_resolve
i want to punch this kid’s face off. I am not even kidding...

Lol. As a woman, I can only say that if British women had any sense of patriotism at all, they'd make sure this twit never gets l**d again. Unfortunately, the picture suggests otherwise.

36 posted on 04/22/2007 9:44:31 PM PDT by Mordacious
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To: noname247; All

Does any one when the next British elections will be held?


37 posted on 04/22/2007 9:51:49 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: gaijin

“GLASS OVER MECCA”

Why just Mecca? We have overwhelming power to destroy every major cities of our enemies.

If they kill 100,000 people in a Hiroshima like attack, it is time to retaliate in a way that stops them dead in their tracks. That is what our fathers did in WWII.

Anything less only encourages them to fight on.


38 posted on 04/22/2007 9:52:37 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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To: Betty Jane

Just try it morons!




39 posted on 04/22/2007 9:55:33 PM PDT by Stayfree (*******************Harry Reid exposed at CapitolHillComedy.com)
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