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UK terrorist threat level raised to 'severe', Theresa May says
BBC News ^ | 29 August 2014

Posted on 08/29/2014 7:19:29 AM PDT by McGruff

The UK's terror threat level is being raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria, Home Secretary Theresa May says.

The new alert level means an attack on the UK is "highly likely", although Mrs May said there was no intelligence to suggest an attack was "imminent".

It is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: iraq; isil; isis; islamists; jihadists; uk
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To: MustKnowHistory

He does??? First he praises Islam and babbles about democracy. Could it be he is just trying to shore up his base, since his party is having trouble? Perhaps trying to scare the Scots into staying in the UK? He’s a weasel just like most politicians. He said nothing substantive. Just more blah, blah, blah...


21 posted on 08/29/2014 8:19:31 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Even with that bleak assessment, it is still miles above what Obama said.


22 posted on 08/29/2014 8:20:49 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: blam

I agree, except we should do some deporting. Assimilating people who adhere to an ideology that is incompatible with a free society can’t happen.


23 posted on 08/29/2014 8:21:01 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: MustKnowHistory

But it’s all just talk! Raising the threat level does squat. Like all British politicians, he is scared to death of the Muslims in the UK. He won’t do a thing to address the real problem of the enemy in their midst.


24 posted on 08/29/2014 8:23:33 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: McGruff

I heard somewhere it is a religion of peace.


25 posted on 08/29/2014 8:38:15 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (OChristian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool])
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To: McGruff
We know they're going to hit us... the whole western world knows it... It'll be England - or Paris or New York or Chicago...

Lucky for us our FBI is putting their resources into convicting a cop in Ferguson...

If they don't get that cop, God only knows how many black unarmed teen ages he might kill in cold blood... There's been thousands already, right? So says the idiots who told them the bullsh*t about the thousands of 'vast right wing conspiracy' lone wolfs. Put up or shut up FBI fools. We pay you FBI people to protect the nation - not to run stupid favors as the goon arm of the democrat party. Please protect us from another 9/11...

26 posted on 08/29/2014 10:49:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. —Thomas Mann)
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To: McGruff

I wonder if this is partially done to take attention away from the muslim molestation epidemic in the UK?


27 posted on 08/29/2014 12:31:03 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Starboard

Cameron is facing the voters on May 7, 2015 and the authentically conservative UKIP has been breathing down his neck in the polls.

Its time for him to put on a show for the voters, although the truth is a real threat exists from ISIS.


28 posted on 08/29/2014 2:21:38 PM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: McGruff

Didn’t know the U.K. had a lot of Amish.


29 posted on 08/29/2014 2:55:42 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: Nextrush

Agree. Good analysis on your part.


30 posted on 08/29/2014 3:13:15 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: McGruff

The UK has a massive internal spying apparatus so effective that it was able to ignore for 16 years the pedophile pimps operating openly and notoriously before it.

I’m not hopeful that they’ll be able to handle anything.


31 posted on 08/30/2014 6:17:25 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: McGruff

a disturbing thought just hit me....
what is keeping these satanic nutjobs from simply traveling to Monrovia, intentionally contracting Ebola and then boarding a flight to Mexico City or Guatemala and then walking into the US?
(or other western nations like England)
biological suicide bombers with no need for chemical weapons, biological weapons, misslies, dirty bombs...all they need are willing martyrs.

could this be the new threat to England and at our southern border?

the fact that “southern border” has been mentioned as opposed to a city makes me think this is NOT about explosives!!


32 posted on 08/30/2014 7:48:52 AM PDT by 1curiousmind
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To: VerySadAmerican

Doesn’t he?


33 posted on 08/31/2014 10:00:18 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: VerySadAmerican

It’s not hard to make a Rattlesnake look like a Rattlesnake.


34 posted on 09/01/2014 6:50:34 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: ForYourChildren

“I heard somewhere it is a religion of peace.”
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Did you also hear that war is peace, slavery is freedom etc?
Have you heard the one about the recovery, hahahahahahaha, it’s a killer, how about the falling unemployment rate, hahahahaha, how about the inflation rate being TOO LOW, gasp, wheeze, hahahahaha, I can’t stand it, it’s too much, I can’t breathe, I’m laughing so hard, aaaaack..................


35 posted on 09/01/2014 6:57:15 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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