The British Prime Minister's top anti-terrorism adviser says the foiled car-bomb plot in London shows Al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Iraqi and Indonesian militants to Britain.
"Make no mistake, this weekend's bomb attacks signal a major escalation in the war being waged on us by Islamic terrorists," John Stevens, the former commissioner of the London police, wrote in an article for the News of the World newspaper.
"Initially it was believed the main problem police faced was insulated groups of home-grown extremists, but now it is clear a loose but deadly network of interlinked operational cells has developed."
"The terror of July 7 (2005) was awful enough, but now Al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Baghdad and Bali to our streets," he said.
"It will get worse before it gets better."
I was surprised by the source for this one but at least it has been admitted to.
Speaking of odd sources...
4 Held in Scottish Attack as British See Broader Plot “Allah, Allah!”
New York Times ^ | July 1, 2007 | ALAN COWELL and RAYMOND BONNER
Posted on 06/30/2007 11:36:14 PM CDT by PureSolace
LONDON, Sunday, July 1 — British officials raised the country’s terrorism threat alert to its highest level on Saturday after two men slammed an S.U.V. into entrance doors at Glasgow Airport and turned the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball.
Less than 38 hours earlier the police uncovered two cars in London rigged to explode with gasoline, gas canisters and nails.
Early Sunday, after a day of fast-moving developments, the London police announced that two people had been arrested in Cheshire, in northwest England, “in connection with the events in London and Scotland.”
The arrests were in addition to those of the two occupants of the blazing car at Glasgow Airport. A witness to the attack said on BBC television that one of the car’s occupants had been ablaze from head to foot, and as he struggled with the police, “was throwing punches and shouting ‘Allah, Allah.’ ”
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Wonder how the last sentence of the snippet got past the PC Editor at the Slimes......