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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: Stayfree

We have 17,000 nukes...the first one hits Mecca just to get your attention, and the next 100 turn the middle east into the world's largest glass parking lot...from which we will extract all of the oil at our leisure!!


42 posted on 04/22/2007 10:00:50 PM PDT by Stayfree (*******************Harry Reid exposed at CapitolHillComedy.com)
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To: EYE33

No, I'm not gay yet, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn, in Iran.
43 posted on 04/22/2007 10:02:09 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Stayfree

Who is the real moron? Could it be the poster whose freeper name is the name of a woman’s sanitary pad?


44 posted on 04/22/2007 10:06:17 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: owhl
The Brits have done everything AQ has asked of them.

Well not quite. They are still in Afghanistan and southern Iraq. Infidels despoiling Muslim lands by their very presence.

45 posted on 04/22/2007 10:21:23 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: noname247

They might even call them names take away their iPods!


46 posted on 04/22/2007 10:27:29 PM PDT by familyop
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To: Mordacious
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.

What makes you think he's ever gotten l**d?

Unfortunately, the picture suggests otherwise.

I think that's 'is Mum and Grand Mum.

47 posted on 04/22/2007 10:27:50 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: EYE33

Yep, he’s “4-F” to the core.


48 posted on 04/22/2007 10:31:55 PM PDT by headstamp (Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
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To: BearWash
Who is the real moron? Could it be the poster whose freeper name is the name of a woman’s sanitary pad?

Your comment classifies you as a complete @ss!!!!

Which means that you must be a liberal, which proves you are an @ss!
49 posted on 04/22/2007 10:34:14 PM PDT by Stayfree (*******************Harry Reid exposed at CapitolHillComedy.com)
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To: Stayfree
“We have 17,000 nukes...the first one hits Mecca just to get your attention, and the next 100 turn the middle east into the world’s largest glass parking lot...from which we will extract all of the oil at our leisure!!”

Lets not forget it will be an endless source of glass for Light bulbs, liqueur bottles, Christmas ornaments, windows, TV screens, beer mugs, oh goodness what a bonanza we could have.

50 posted on 04/22/2007 10:40:06 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

You are definitely a capitalist and an entrepreneur. May God provide you the right opportunity.


51 posted on 04/22/2007 10:56:55 PM PDT by Stayfree (*******************Harry Reid exposed at CapitolHillComedy.com)
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To: noname247

““shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West.”

Geography and Classical Civilisation are obviously not compulsory subjects in the madrassas!


52 posted on 04/23/2007 1:00:14 AM PDT by Dave Elias
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To: Bitwhacker; illstillbe; nicollo; Cap Huff; Southack

Something evil is coming and we are in a 9/10 mindset arguing if Rudy is a RINO.


53 posted on 04/23/2007 2:18:25 AM PDT by Dog
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To: EYE33
Kindred spirits?


54 posted on 04/23/2007 2:30:10 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Mordacious

Unfortunately, the picture suggests otherwise.

One is his step-sister the other his godmother so either you are very sick or maybe that thing is the norm where you come from!


55 posted on 04/23/2007 3:09:10 AM PDT by MadMitch
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To: Dog

exactamundo, my friend Dog ....


56 posted on 04/23/2007 3:15:40 AM PDT by illstillbe (Lord, *bless* me with wisdom. I can't find any on my own these days ...)
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To: owhl

‘How can this be?

The Brits have done everything AQ has asked of them.’

If they’re happy with Britain, they must be beside themselves with glee now America has elected a democrat govt that has already surrendered to AQ. . . .


57 posted on 04/23/2007 3:19:58 AM PDT by britemp
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To: smoketree

> We tell them that if anything happens we will target
> their major supporter(s).
> Then the supporters will either intervene to stop the
> attack or suffer the consequences.
> We make the warning public so everyone knows what will
> happen.
> We let everyone know we are not going to tolerate thin
> nonsense anymore

We (the US) did this through the personage of our President, George Bush shortly after the 911 attacks.

We have yet to make good on it.

We have done so partially by taking on Afghanistan and Iraq, however the US response has been so weak and feeble, the MoHAMheads have actually been emboldened.

And it bodes ill that the US is perceived as having a de facto coup d’etat in process in the Congress.

To the MoHAMheads, there may be no better time to teach the West a “lesson” of epic proportions, dwarfing 911.


58 posted on 04/23/2007 3:44:45 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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To: noname247

“shake the Roman throne” - If I were the Pope I would take this personally


59 posted on 04/23/2007 3:47:31 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup ("Is it real? Or is it Reuters?")
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To: owhl

“The Brits have done everything AQ has asked of them”

Like??????


60 posted on 04/23/2007 3:59:30 AM PDT by batco-barry
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