Posted on 06/30/2007 12:24:22 PM PDT by HAL9000
Britain raises its security alert level to critical - the highest possible level indicating terror attacks are imminent.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I did, yes, and of course there is a worrying minority of Muslims in the UK who seem intent on attacking us. However, people have often tried to intimidate Britain by terrorism and all have failed. These Islamic fundamentalists are just the latest bunch. The British will just continue with a stiff upper lip as always.
“You’re right. 9/11 was never repeated, thanks to President Bush and his attentive leadership.”
We also were damn lucky our wide open borders were not exploited. We have a gigantic achilies heel in the WOT.
you assume they’re only going to nuke one city.
“However, people have often tried to intimidate Britain by terrorism and all have failed.”
yeah.. but its not the same is it... the other groups just wanted stuff.. these Muslims just want you dead.
i hope you’re right about your countrymen... the impression we get over here is that the PC-rot is quite entrenched.
An amateur terrorist attack? That might as well be said of “amateur rape” or “amateur beheading”. Good God...
Man them sophisticated intelligence networks are really something. Talk about “threat matrix”.
How do they do it?
What was the initial indicator? The bomb in the night club or the burning airport terminal/ The firecracker in the Queen mum’s chamberpot?
Nothing gets by these guys.
Well, the war in Iraq is no more unpopular in the UK than in the US and most British people strongly supported the more clear-cut intervention in Afghanistan. There was much speculation in some papers (and hope in the left-wing of the Labour party) that Brown would turn away from Blair’s stance on Iraq. In reality that hasn’t happened and it now appears that Brown is commited to Blair’s Iraq plans. Politically in the UK the government isn’t facing the quasi-rebellion that Bush faces from Congress on Iraq. In Afghanistan, even a Labour leader to the left of Brown wouldn’t pull out of there. It is widely seen as an uncontroversial, necessary conflict (hence British troops taking on key responsibility for the violent south of that country over the last year). Brown is known to be a very tough leader in private, hence his ‘Stalinist’ label in many commentaries. He wouldn’t wobble because of these terrorist attacks. In Britain, we have faced much worse in the past.
"Our #1 job priority is keeping the US border porous and giving Amnesty to all terrorists."
Ameuter nuclear fission attack.
oh thank god it was just ameuters!
lol
The kind that makes them put on a burka... and pray with their ass up in the air.
I meant exploited for another successful major attack. Clearly some bad guys have got in because of our failure to secure the border. If something happens and we find out the terrorists entered through our southern border, the administration should bear the brunt of criticism.
oh and that map is 5 years old.. God only knows how busy that map is now.
It’s not all just caterwauling and whining on the internet. There are lots of constructive suggestions.
why is john waters in that picture?
ping
I’m sad to hear that that is your impression of the UK. Depite a terrible terrorist attack in London in July 2005 and many other thwarted polts, the UK hasn’t changed its stance in the War on Terror (and presence in Ireq and Afghanistan) one jot. In fact, we increased our force levels in Afghanistan in 2006. The UK can often seem ‘cold’ to terrorist attacks to foreign observers. But in reality, the British people are stoical and don’t like to give any impression of being rattled by these thugs. They have too much experience of such things in the past to let it trouble them. As for PC, well I love America, but you guys invented that concept and the UK is still way behind you. We have nothing at all like the ACLU for example.
“I meant exploited for another successful major attack”..
give a jihadi a chance! :)
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