-- Triumph of the Postmodern: The Third World War Revisited. p. 27
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With American armies rushing to France to join the allies in World War One, Germany launched an innovative surprise attack at the seam of the British and French armies on the Western Front. Achieving complete surprise, the Germans collapsed the allied front and attained a spectacular breakthrough. Only their inability in the pre-mechanised age to exploit this gap -- and drive deeply into the allied rear echelons -- prevented the Germans from snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Now the Islamic entente seeks to emulate this feat of arms with a stunning coup de main...
Intelligence services around the world currently in a frantic battle to tie together the loose ends of the maddening puzzle they have unraveled. The Brits have wisely isolated their American and European colleagues from the endgame -- it is their match to win or lose. However defeating the Islamic entente will take more than a dazzling drop-kick from down-under...
The suits in the intelligence game always want to let the quarry run just a bit more -- the take can be dazzling as new leads develop and old queries are answered. This is how careers are made -- and protected.
However it is the field man -- drenched to the skin from the endless rain and numbed to the soul by litres of bad coffee that ultimately knows when the harmless rabbit is about to become the Werewolf. He (or she) has watched and waited -- somehow he just knows...
MI-5 and the rest of the constables need to be unleashed immediately -- to wait another 72 hours is to risk it all. There may be an isolated incident or two as not all will be caught up in the dragnet -- however to wait risks taking the bait, and biting on the fake...
There are some two hundred Islamic entente operatives in the UK known to the Brits. Everyone of them should be picked up immediately. To wait is to gamble too much for too little...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
Though I'm watching the stop watch on this 72 hours in the UK.
So far, we're at 28 hours and 19 minutes since your post. I presume there's and implicit +/- in your estimate but I'll check back in a couple of days!