Posted on 06/29/2007 10:50:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Car Bomb Found in London 20 Days After al Qaeda Suicide Bomber 'Graduation Ceremony'
June 29, 2007 7:02 AM
Brian Ross Reports:
The discovery of a massive car bomb set to detonate in central London comes just three weeks after what was described as an al Qaeda graduation ceremony of suicide bomb teams to be dispatched to Europe and the United States.
A videotape obtained by ABC News from a Pakistani journalist shows groups of dozens of men al Qaeda says have gone through a terror training camp somewhere in Pakistan.
Teams of 50 to 60 men were supposedly dispatched to the United States, Canada, Germany and Great Britain.
On the tape, the leader of the British team speaks of the mission in broken English, "Let me say something about why we are going along with my team to tell a suicide attack in Britain."
That was just 20 days ago, and the existence of the tape first reported by ABC News put British and German security experts on edge.
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‘Car Bomb Found in London 20 Days After al Qaeda Suicide Bomber ‘Graduation Ceremony’
You can bet these guys were streaming over the border from Mexico before the blood was dry on their diplomas.
You might want to go over your course syllabus there, Achmed....
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Not at all. They know full well that the readers, most of whom are victims of public education, do not think: they gobble up everything related to what's on their minds. After bomb scare, the readers think of the threat, and anything and everything that is threatening, coming from the Middle East, makes loud noises --- i.e., related in any way --- is going to be read.
In addition, it is fear-mongering: given that it was not a suicide bombing, is the second shoe still to drop? This thought will ensure that people will read newspapers/watch tv for many more days to come.
They are not stupid at all. It's the readers who are stupid.
Why do you Yanks think we are ‘pulling out of Iraq’?.
We are withdrawing SOME troops to SEND TO AFGHANISTAN!.The vast majority of British troops are still in Iraq and will be into 2008-2009 with some even there into 2010.
We have also reinforced Afghanistan over and above the switch from Iraq.
Anyway,surely the whole point is that we both will leave Iraq at some point.Neither America or Britain or the Aussie are going to be there forever...
The British have served admirably, no doubt, and Blair is my hero for the role he has played. I'm sure he was aware it would cost him politically to back Bush on Iraq, but he did so anyway. Maybe Brown won't "go wobbley", but it seems to me the jihadists think he can be influenced, thus the attempted terror on London.
I saw NYC Top Cop Ray Kelley with some comments about how NYC is going to beef up security. Of course, he left out the part that NYC always does this for a couple of weeks after a terror story hits the news, and then its back to normal.
I extend to Ray Kelley all the confidence I would extend to the average medium sized company Human Resources middle manager. :-)
Fair enough.Apologies if I seemed a bit defensive...
Brown IS a fan of the US,both as a politician and person.He holidays in Cape Cod for example.
I think he will still be a major ally of the US,though slightly more reserved than Blair,but thats more his way anyway on any issue.
I dont see many changes re Iraq under Brown and any would be minor.
I think we agree that it is imperative that the UK and US stay together on the war on terror, especially now in light of the possibilities afforded the cause by the election of Sarkozy in France. Wow, imagine if Sarkozy turns out as advertised....one can dream.
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