Terrorists in Pakistan planning over 20 attacks on Britain, says Gordon Brown

The Telegraph ^ | 14 Dec 2008 | James Kirkup

[Qaz_W]

The Prime Minister named Pakistan as a haven for terrorists planning attacks in Britain, revealing that around three quarters of the most advanced plots monitored by MI5 are have Pakistani links. Officials say that the Security Service is aware of around 30 serious plots at any given moment, suggesting that at least 21 of them are tied to Pakistani groups. On a visit to Islamabad, the Prime Minister delived a blunt demand to President Ali Asif Zardari to improve his goverment's work to prevent al-Qaeda and other groups operating in the lawless area that borders Afghanistan. "The time has come for action not words," Mr Brown told Mr Zardari. At a press conference, Mr Brown revealed that he had told Mr Zardari that "three quarters of the most serious plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaeda in Pakistan". Many known terrorists including Mohammed Siddique Khan, ringleader of the 7/7 bombings, are known to have trained at al-Qaeda inspired camps in the Pakistani border areas. In a private meeting Mr Brown told Mr Zardari he must do more to close those camps. Mr Brown told reporters: "We must break the chain of terrorism that links the mountains of Afghanistan to the streets of Britain." Mr Brown also announced increased British support for Pakistani counter-terrorism work, including greater support for Pakistani police work on detecting and defusing bombs. The UK will also fund more scanning equipment at Pakistani airports British police will also work with their Pakistani counterparts providing help with forensic science and contingency planning for major terrorist incidents. There will also be a £6 million British fund to help Pakistan counter the radicalization of young Muslims. The Prime Minister said his aim was to form "the most comprehensive anti-terror programme Britain has with any country".

[Qaz_W]

Britain has one great big Islamic terrorist problem emanating from its Pakistani origin population.

The problem is not going to go away and will be a major headache for the UK in the years to come.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Britain has ‘made a rod for it’s own back’.

[BullDog108]

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[tupac]

What are Britain’s policies and attitudes towards Islam? The muslims don’t appear to be assimilating very well into British culture, what are the causes that make them so angry and violent?

Don’t they have the freedoms to live as they wish and keep their Islamic cultural heritage totally intact?

Has the government tried letting them have their own schools, places of worship and legal system while guarding these sensitive people against all things that offend them?

Is it Bush’s fault?

[doosee]

Doesnt Gordon Brown realize that if he just sits down and meets with the terrorists face to face this would all just go away and everyone could be happy?

[stockpirate]

The UK needs to deport ALL Muslims, ALL.

[stockpirate]

You forgot to add “without any precondtions”.

[AmericanInTokyo]

They are planning their next big strike, probably, on Delhi or Mumbai or Calcutta, as we speak. They want to ramp it up and they have full support of many elements of the Pakistan Army and Intelligence organizations.

Bottom line. One more major attack on India by these scumbags and India goes to IMMEDIATE WAR. There will be no stopping them, even by the US or UK.

Worldwide criminal outlaw out of control and incapable of controlling its own territory and elements of public leadership.

India should annex their arses as occupied Indian territory and take Pakistan out of existence as a nation-state.

[vimto]

Yep, we look to Pakistan as if it is the problem. Fact is the U.K. indigenous Muslim population contains enough would be mass murderers and sympathizers. What about 6 million on closing any mosque that won't pledge allegiance to H.M. the Queen? And deport those who won't.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Don’t they have the freedoms to live as they wish and keep their Islamic cultural heritage totally intact?***

Sharia law and Jihad are their cultural identity.

[tupac]

That’s right! Has Britain tried giving the muslims Sharia and Jihad in exchange for peace? Where’s Chamberlain when you need him?

[swarthyguy]

You gotta love England and Brown’s chutzpah.

Their predecessors were the midwifes of Pakistan, against the wishes of the Pathans, who preferred the India Union, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan AKA The Frontier Gandhi, was not PRO Pakistan at all and considered Jinnah a twit and stooge, a preening, overweening dandy, narcisstic and vainglorious, which he was, and which was also WHY the British loved him, him becoming quite easy to manipulate and buy off, the whole point being to create a staunch Muslim based bulwark against Communism and keep India in check.

A secular, ham chomping, scotch sipping, urban effiminate intellectual who was going to create a pure Islamic state on the SubContinent! Classic Do What I Say, not what I do.

Even now, the secular Awami Party won elections in the tribal areas, and their leaders, along with sympathetic tribal chiefs have been systematically decimated in the past year and longer.

And, to the point, an estimated 20 LeT jihadis have gone to ground in India, sympathtic mullahs and neo-jihadis giving them shelter even when their buddies slaughtered close to 5 dozen Muslims at the train station and others at the Taj and elsewhere.

— you are correct, another deadly attack, and even the Indians won’t feel restrained anymore.

[little jeremiah]

Surprise, surprise.