Posted on 02/04/2007 4:51:27 PM PST by Mount Athos
The intelligence services fear that Britain could be subject to a Beslan-style siege, with multiple hostages forced to plead for their lives on camera.
Whitehall sources have said that the threat is considered so credible that MI5, the police and the SAS have conducted at least two mock counter-terrorism exercises to work out how to deal with such an eventuality.
The last exercise, shortly before Christmas, took place at an RAF base near Chester. Five police forces were involved in an operation that envisaged an international conference being stormed by terrorists, who then held a group of children hostage in a creche wired with explosives.
Operation Northern Synergy saw a number of police chiefs assume the Gold Command - ultimate responsibility for co-ordinating the response. The commanders liaised with the government's Cobra committee, which is activated during times of national crisis. In the scenario the terrorists were equipped with mobile phones and a satellite uplink that allowed them to beam pictures of the hostages on to television screens. The operation ended with a decision to send in the SAS.
'This scenario is something that is very much on the radar screen,' said one counter-terrorism source. 'We have envisaged a British Beslan for several years.' Beslan in south-west Russia was the scene of a horrific siege when on 1 September, 2004, 1,200 schoolchildren and adults were taken hostage by Muslim terrorists. The siege resulted in the security services storming the school and the deaths of 344 of the hostages.
Growing fears that domestic terrorists could seize hostages in Britain and parade them on television and websites were underlined last week when police conducted a series of raids across the West Midlands.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
We're not. Almost all schools exist in "violence free" and "gun free" zones.
Sitting ducks.
Or we could send in BATFE and just kill everyone.
Sorry, forgot to turn off my </dripping sarcasm> tag.
How prepared are we?
We've taken premptive action!
We outsmarted them, ALL of our schools prohibit guns on campus!
As they should.
But that would violate a 13-year old's second amendement rights.
When I went to school in Hampton Virginia in the 50s, they offered marksmanship as a class taught by an NRA certified instructor. I took it. On those days I had marksmanship probably a third of the school carried rifles to class and there were zero incidents.
They need to bring back this tradition, no fruitcake muzzie group would dare try and take over a school where a third or more of the students are packing firearms.
Muzzies are cowards and only attack the weak and unsuspecting.
How many Americans have ever heard of Beslan? very few, I'll bet. The DBM's greatest power is in determining what will be a story and they were not interested in this massacre. It's very sad that the DBM thinks conservatives are the enemy.
It's funny, you know after OKBOMB, all the King's horses and men were running around, talking about how scary Christians were, and anyone that owned a gun was a criminal waiting to explode.
But now? THIS..!
"Almost all schools exist in "violence free" and "gun free" zones."
Drug free, also. I've seen the signs.
I graduated in 1990 from Little Rock Catholic High. Our principal, Father Tribou told us that anyone heading to the woods on FRI need to park their car where faculty can keep an eye on their "gear".
PS Abercrombie, read my tagline.
What is DBM ?
There is a good article on American schools and the needs to be prepared here:
http://justwhatithink.com/blog/
Mass Slaughter in Our Public Schools: The Terrorists' Chilling Plan
Interesting post, good that you are seeing with knowing eyes and not missing the facts.
http://justwhatithink.com/blog/
Mass Slaughter in Our Public Schools: The Terrorists' Chilling Plan
Excerpt
Probably the last place you want to think of terrorists striking is your kids' school. But according to two trainers at an anti-terrorism conference on the East Coast, preparations for attacks on American schools that will bring rivers of blood and staggering body counts are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps.
* The intended attackers have bluntly warned us they're going to do it.
* They're already begun testing school-related targets here.
* They've given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we've largely ignored and they've learned more deadly tactics from.
"We don't know for sure what they will do. But by definition, a successful attack is one we are not ready for," declared one of the instructors, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Our schools fit that description to a "T"-as in Terrorism and Threat.
bump
Wow. Bump.
Tip your hat for me to those old [all knowing] timers.
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