Posted on 05/23/2017 5:12:50 PM PDT by blam
In a live televised statement from Downing Street, UK PM Theresa May explains it was possible a “wider group of individuals” could have been involved in the Manchester Arena attack rather than just suicide bomber Salman Abedi.
*UK’S MAY: MANCHESTER TERROR ATTACKER BORN, RAISED IN UK *SALMAN ABEDI WAS BROUGHT UP IN U.K, POSSIBLE WIDER NETWORK: MAY
The Prime Minister said the terror threat level would be increased to “critical”, meaning an attack was expected imminently.
U.K. TERROR THREAT LEVEL TO INCREASE FROM ‘SEVERE’ TO ‘CRITICAL’ U.K. PRIME MINISTER SAYS FURTHER ATTACK COULD BE IMMINENT
In a sign of the increased threat, the military could be deployed to support armed police officers, Mrs May added…
UK troops deployed on the streets will be under the command of police commanders UK PM: MILITARY TO KEEP GUARD AT CONCERTS, SPORTS EVENTS
Full Statement:
May mentions “Operation Temperer” which has been prepared since 2015 (as The Telegraph details)
More than 5,000 soldiers could be deployed on the streets of Britain in the wake of major terrorist attacks, under a secret Government plan, it has emerged.
The troops would be sent to guard key targets in major cities if Isil or other terror groups launched multiple attacks on UK soil, under the plan, codenamed Operation Temperer.
Details of the operation were disclosed by the Mail on Sunday after accidentally being uploaded to the National Police Chiefs Council website last week.
Officers had been briefed on the plan by Deputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman, the ‘national lead’ for armed policing, during an NPCC meeting in Leicester in April.
Under the heading ‘counter terrorism post Paris large scale military support to the police’, minutes of the meeting disclosed that up to 5,100 troops could be deployed “based on force assessments of how many military officers
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Perhaps instead of whining that Trump warned Russia, without following the approved process, the Brits should have listened to President Trump’s warnings?
I would feel safer with 5000 American citizens with ccw than 5000 soldiers in a situation like this.
One day, the 2nd bomber will show up at the diversity vigil.
Let me know when they do something besides continue to destroy liberty.
If your goal is to destroy liberty, terrorism helps you to achieve that goal.
Here is how you do it Brits. You go to a known muzzie no go zone. Encircle it with your troops. Then flush em out and get rid of them...ALL OF THEM. Bust the doors down and go house to house if you have to.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
These animals understand one thing, and that is savagery.
I would like to see a few of the ISIS bastards impaled.
Great Time for Trump to disembark the plane emerge on the White House lawn take a seat at a table with his advisors handing him the EO to designate the MB as a terrorist org.
Day late and a Pence short....they always act oh-so-concerned while the blood is being washed off the ground and then go back to ignoring the threats until the next one....
Until there is a major terrorist attack on entertainers or politicians, the elites will simply give lip-service to solving the problem.
They should deploy the Army to Parliament if they want to remove the REAL threat to the UK.
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