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U.K. raises terror threat level to ‘severe’
MSNBC ^ | 1/22/2010 | Staff

Posted on 01/22/2010 12:39:44 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

From Substantial to High meaning an attack is imminent. From MSNBC TV.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedauk; britain; jihadineurope; terrorthreat; uk; wot
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To: JustPiper; Eurotwit; hoosiermama; Liz; maggief; SE Mom; STARWISE; prairiebreeze; SoCalPol
Attack imminent...not this high since the Tube

Are you sure?

I thought Eurotwit said there's one higher level?

OMG!

61 posted on 01/22/2010 1:23:42 PM PST by onyx
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To: La Lydia

I would stay away from the tube and lorries. Go with the black cabs.


62 posted on 01/22/2010 1:23:57 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Drill Thrawl

PLEASE disregard my other response to you. I had thought you had answered a different question from a different post... I screwed that up.


63 posted on 01/22/2010 1:24:26 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First FAILED "light skinned African American [Pres-dent] with no Negro dialect..")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Excerpt from Reuter’s news service article entitled “Britain raises international terror threat level”
Tim Pearce
LONDON
Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:12pm EST
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60L5IK20100122

“Britain hosts an international conference on Afghanistan on January 28 that London says may set a timetable for transferring responsibility for some areas to Afghan control.

Those present will include Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s other main partners.

It will be preceded by a January 27 meeting on Yemen, which declared war on al Qaeda last week under pressure for a crackdown on the global militant group after its Yemen-based wing said it was behind an attempt on December 25 to blow up a U.S. passenger jet.

The West and neighboring Saudi Arabia fear Yemen could become a failed state, allowing al Qaeda to use the country as a launchpad for further international attacks.

The meeting brings together foreign ministers of Yemen’s main development partners.”


64 posted on 01/22/2010 1:24:43 PM PST by BIOCHEMKY
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To: BelleAl

I bet it’s not air flights, try to be reassured


65 posted on 01/22/2010 1:24:59 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: Egon
And now for the important question: What color is that?

"Tell him... what color?!"

66 posted on 01/22/2010 1:25:30 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Red in Blue PA

Well, since no one had post this yet, here goes

BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!!


67 posted on 01/22/2010 1:26:27 PM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: onyx

Here’s some more:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6999294.ece

Been out most of day-trying to catch up.


68 posted on 01/22/2010 1:26:34 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: onyx

http://news.sky.com/skynews


69 posted on 01/22/2010 1:27:07 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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To: JustPiper

The only thing recent was the threat againt the Brittish athletes who were playing in New Dehli. Again, it was England and India in the cross-hairs. It will be interesting to see if the security is stepped up when I head to Penn Station in a few. You can always tell when they step it up when you see the robocops with machine guns standing guard outside the Amtrak trains.


70 posted on 01/22/2010 1:27:28 PM PST by jersey117
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

So, in Ron White’s world, we’ve picked up the damn helmet, but we haven’t put the damn helmet on yet.


71 posted on 01/22/2010 1:28:02 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: SE Mom; JustPiper; Eurotwit; hoosiermama; Liz; maggief; STARWISE; prairiebreeze; SoCalPol

OKAY, your UK TIMES link says SEVERE - HIGHLY LIKELY

that’s our RED, right?


72 posted on 01/22/2010 1:28:33 PM PST by onyx
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To: Egon

Brown?


73 posted on 01/22/2010 1:28:45 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: onyx

I heard it earlier ... very severe .. and
no comment or acknowledgement from our
do nothings here. but of course since there
seems to be a new cult of secrecy amongst
top govt officials .....


74 posted on 01/22/2010 1:28:49 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: onyx

Red/orange.....One more level RED Alert!


75 posted on 01/22/2010 1:29:39 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Dog

“Critical” is the highest. So they’re orange right now.

Source:

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/threat-levels.html#history

On 14 August 2006, the threat level was LOWERED to severe (from Critical).


76 posted on 01/22/2010 1:29:55 PM PST by library user
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To: JustPiper; SE Mom

Dear Lord - same news as UK TIMES


77 posted on 01/22/2010 1:30:35 PM PST by onyx
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To: Gator113

LOL. Then again, your first response is actually the truth.


78 posted on 01/22/2010 1:31:06 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
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To: onyx

No, “critical” is the highest in the U.K. so them being on “severe” right now is equivalent to orange.


79 posted on 01/22/2010 1:31:15 PM PST by library user
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To: onyx

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Sky-Live-TV#

listening live here


80 posted on 01/22/2010 1:31:27 PM PST by JustPiper (“NO lawyers to defend terrorists!!!” ~Senator Scott -"New Republican Patriot")
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