Posted on 07/17/2009 10:37:45 PM PDT by Steelfish
Shopping centres on alert for terrorism attack
The security services are preparing shopping centres across the country for a successful terrorist attack that would probably result in the deaths of dozens of innocent people.
Duncan Gardham 18 Jul 2009
Ibrahim's attempt was the third time in four years that terrorists have targeted the large crowds that gather in these relatively unguarded places.
In March 2004 a plot to blow up the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent with half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was foiled by MI5 and a month after Ibrahim's arrest last year, Nicky Reilly, another Muslim convert, tried to blow himself up with a sodium hydroxide bomb in the Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter.
The National Counter Terrorism Security Office now holds training days for shopping centres and other vulnerable targets up and down the country, warning: "Terrorist attacks in the UK are a real and serious danger.
"Crowded places, including shopping centres, are likely to feature in the attack plans of terrorist organisations in the future as they are usually locations with limited protective security measures and therefore afford the potential for mass fatalities and casualties."
MI5 have also launched Operation Lightening to record, research and investigate suspicious activity and it is particularly focused on the "hostile reconnaissance" of targets.
On Monday April 7 last year, just after 2.30pm, Ibrahim walked into what is now called the Mall shopping centre in Broadmead, in the centre of Bristol, tying his jacket and sweatshirt around his waist.
He made his way up to the top level towards the record shop Zavi and then past TK Max to the car park pay machines where he probably started tapping details into his mobile phone.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Islam destroys from within.
Oh, please, more of Bush’s attempts to scare us all so we think there’s this big threat out there...oh, uh, never mind...
Impossible.
Bambi assured us that there is no such thing as terrorism any more.
Just more of those Islamic innovations that made the west great.
Fyi.
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“Impossible.
Bambi assured us that there is no such thing as terrorism any more.”
Keep in mind, this story relates to the UK, not the USA.
In the US, the malls have no customers left to blow up.
Those cute little “prayer rug” mouse pads they’re selling seem useful.
I’d get a kick outta watching a fellow worker pounding his head on his desk 5 times a day....:)
Head to the Valley Mall in Hagerstown MD.
You’ll be lucky if you can manage to suck enough oxygen of your own to survive shopping.
“You’ll be lucky if you can manage to suck enough oxygen of your own to survive shopping.”
Yes, I know in some areas the malls have plenty of people, but are they buying, or going just to socialize and stay cool?
They appear to be buying judging by the bags carried out but I only go in long enough to deal with my cell phone provider and then get the heck out so I can’t give stats on that, for sure.
[I hate malls]
Killing shoppers for the religion of peace.
Found this that may or may not be related:
Man Arrested Over Flats Explosion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8157476.stm
Sounds like a work accident to me...no names.
Thank you Milford for the ping.
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