Posted on 02/08/2004 7:48:52 PM PST by saquin
We are cleaning them out!
Another accomplishment detailed here:
Here this scumbag is OBVIOUSLY speaking of the American Public and the media in general and Democrats in particular, DEFINITELY NOT our TROOPS!!
He and all of the Arab world know the constant leftist media drumbeat of quagmire and troop deaths will eventually where the American public out. They also KNOW that if GW gets beat their efforts will not have been in vain.
British police receive orders to shoot to kill suicide bombers
The Jerusalem Post ^ | August 9, 2003 | DOUGLAS DAVIS
British police receive orders to shoot to kill suicide bombers By DOUGLAS DAVIS
Britain's top police commander Sir John Stevens has placed his forces on the highest state of alert following intelligence warnings that an al-Qaida terrorist attack might be imminent. He has ordered all front-line officers to be trained to spot potential suicide bombers and has taken the unprecedented step of ordering police to "shoot to kill" suicide bombers.
The Sunday Telegraph reported that the moves follow intelligence passed to Britain by the FBI in a secret briefing in late July. It warned that London is facing an increasing threat of a suicide bomb attack. The police chief has now told his officers that British intelligence reports indicates there are more al-Qaida agents in Britain than has been previously estimated. And he said he believes the terror network is sufficiently extensive to be able to mount suicide attacks.
He told the hundreds of armed officers in London they must shoot to kill if they believe a terrorist is planning a suicide attack. And he made it clear that additional legislation is not required to cover such action. If they fear an attack will result in loss of life they will be justified in killing the suspect. The paper quoted a senior officer as saying: "He's made it plain that if we think we are facing a suicide bomber, we should shoot first and ask questions later."
Senior officers were briefed on the increasing threat at a presentation held at Scotland Yard's firearms unit in London last week. Additional guidance on countering suicide bombers is being given to officers in London and will be extended to forces in other parts of the country next month.
"Suicide bombers are getting better at killing people," said Scotland Yard's senior firearms instructor, Chief Inspector Andy Latto. "We are currently briefing chief officers across the country and the information will cascade down to officers."
According to the paper, the training and guidance is being organized by specialist officers who have visited Israel and Sri Lanka, and the new guidance will be included in a counter-terrorist manual. Although much of the content of the manual is confidential, it will examine the various methods of suicide attackers. It is understood to detail the cases of two British suicide bombers who attacked Mike's Place in Tel Aviv last April, which resulted in the death of three Israelis and one of the bombers.
A major mock attack on the London Underground rail system, which is considered to be a prime target, is to be staged next month to test the ability of the emergency services to prevent, react to and deal with the aftermath of a terrorist incident.
Britain has already foiled two al-Qaida plots this year. The first involved the highly lethal poison ricin, which was seized in a security raid on a North London apartment in January. The following month, troops and tanks were deployed around London's major airports after a plot was uncovered to down a passenger airliner with shoulder-launched missiles.
In another development, the paper reported that top al-Qaida bomb-makers have established at least two cells in Baghdad with the capacity to carry out large operations designed to destabilize American-backed efforts to restore order. Former New York police chief Bernard Kerik, who is assisting the Iraqi police, said the FBI would send officers to Baghdad to lead the investigation into suspected al-Qaida links to last week's bombing of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad which killed 14 Iraqis.
American and Jordanian officials are said to have identified the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was at the center of American attempts to establish a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, as the chief suspect in the embassy bombing. Zarqawi, a 43-year-old Jordanian national whose real name is Fadel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, was linked by the Jordanians to the murder of Lawrence Foley, a US diplomat who was shot dead in Amman in October last year. He fled to Iraq and is suspected of working with Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdistan-based Islamic militant group which is said to be linked to al-Qaida.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the device used in the lorry bomb consisted of high explosives and TNT and was triggered by remote control, which one security official said might have been assembled in Syria before being transferred to Iraq. The device is reportedly far more sophisticated than anything coalition forces have encountered so far.
"The style of the attack and the explosives used point towards Ansar al-Islam and in particular to Zarqawi, who is still on the run in Iraq," a senior Jordanian official was quoted as saying. "Zarqawi blames Jordan for giving the United States information on his terror network and a secret Ansar al-Islam camp in northern Iraq, which makes him one of the chief suspects in this attack."
Head of the Iraqi Governing Council's security committee Ayad Allawi told the paper: "Al-Qaida are coming in from various places. Some are new but we have also found traces of sleeper cells.
"People have reported on their activities in several areas," added Allawi. "We certainly know that top al-Qaida bomb-makers and organizers are in Iraq."
This is the most interesting part of this very interesting story for me: How terrified they are of freedom and self-determination.
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