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200 suicide bombers 'planning attacks in UK'
The Sunday Telegraph ^ | 08 Oct 2011 | Sean Rayment

Posted on 10/09/2011 11:45:30 AM PDT by george76

At least 200 potential terrorists are actively planning suicide attacks while living freely in Britain, intelligence chiefs have warned ministers. A senior intelligence source has revealed that the figure is a "conservative" estimate of the threat facing the country from UK-based Islamist suicide bombers.

The would-be killers are among 2,000 extremists who the security services have said are based in Britain and actively planning terrorist activity of some kind.

The figures are contained within a secret government report on the "enduring terrorist threat" facing the UK from al-Qaeda and affiliated organisations,

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Earlier this year, classified intelligence documents disclosed by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, showed that MI6 officers believed that Britain was facing a wave of suicide attacks from British-based Muslim extremists who had been trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan.

One report quoted an MI6 officer's briefing to US officials in which he said: "The internal threat is growing more dangerous because some extremists are conducting non-lethal training without ever leaving the country. Should these extremists then decide to become suicide operatives, HMG [Her Majesty's Government] intelligence resources, eavesdropping and surveillance would be hard pressed to find them on any 'radar screen'."...

The terrorists are learning all the time and adapting their tactics. They now operate a cell structure and there security is very tight.

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suicide attacks had developed as the weapon of choice for al-Qaeda and its supporters because of the level of fear that such attacks can engender.

The report cited examples of past suicide attacks which were perceived by the organisations which mounted them as having produced successful outcomes, such as the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983 which was followed by the withdrawal of US forces from Lebanon.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: george76

Isn’t Kiefer Southerland supposed to be shooting a 24 movie in Europe?


21 posted on 10/09/2011 2:07:28 PM PDT by eastforker
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To: eastforker

Although Samual Jackson was good in “Unthinkable”!


22 posted on 10/09/2011 2:09:44 PM PDT by eastforker
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To: george76

I vote for preemptive assisted suicide. SAS...pick up the white courtesy phone.


23 posted on 10/09/2011 2:21:29 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Austrian achievement: convincing world that Hitler was German and Beethoven Austrian)
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To: george76; Jim Robinson
At least 200 potential terrorists are actively planning suicide attacks while living freely in Britain, intelligence chiefs have warned ministers. A senior intelligence source has revealed that the figure is a "conservative" estimate of the threat facing the country from UK-based Islamist suicide bombers. The would-be killers are among 2,000 extremists who the security services have said are based in Britain and actively planning terrorist activity of some kind.

At least 200 potential terrorists are actively planning "suicide" attacks while living for free in Washington D.C., intelligence chiefs have warned. A senior intelligence source has revealed that the figure is a "conservative" estimate of the threat facing the country.

The would-be "killers" are among 535 extremists who the security services have said are based in the U.S. Capitol and are actively planning terrorist activity of some kind.

And the Brits think they have problems.

24 posted on 10/09/2011 2:25:19 PM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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To: Pharmboy

LoL, see if they’re as good at creating “work accidents” as the Mossad.


25 posted on 10/09/2011 2:29:51 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: george76

Did MI6 weaponize them with grenades and rocket launchers
as Holder and Obama have on this side of the Atlantic?


26 posted on 10/09/2011 6:00:09 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jack Hammer
Meanwhile, the idiots at the TSA continue to search old women and kids as they board the nation’s airplanes.

My favorite is the TSA sexually molesting those with a TS security clearance. Apparently the extensive FBI background investigation isn't trustworthy enough to be able to board an airplane (whereas the Director of the Smithsonian Institution can actually pack a firearm on any aircraft), but is trustworthy enough to be allowed to work on nuclear weapons and missiles that can take down aircraft.

Moslems are the problem and the problem demands a solution.

You are one word away [final] from revisiting the 1930s

27 posted on 10/10/2011 4:57:17 AM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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To: truthguy

And you lot aint cut from the same cloth that charged onto Iwo Jima or Omaha Beach. Nor are the Canadians the same people that took Vimy Ridge or Juno.


28 posted on 10/10/2011 5:02:03 AM PDT by the scotsman (I)
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To: george76

Man, I wish we could figure out who is responsible for all these terrorists attacks. I suspect white, conservative Christians...they are all so angry, always demanding that the government be accountable and responsible.../s


29 posted on 10/10/2011 5:26:18 AM PDT by Molon Labbie ("It's Free, Swipe Your EBT!")
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To: marron
Baptist extremists?

What would those look like? Sit really, really, really in the back? Daily potluck dinners? Dislike Dancing with the Stars because it involves... dancing?

30 posted on 10/10/2011 5:59:17 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Things are so bad now, Kenyans are saying Obama was born in the USA.)
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To: the scotsman
I hope that I'm wrong and I will be more than happy to eat my words if it comes down to that.

I tend to agree with you Scotty. None of our respective countries are of the same character as we were in those days. I take no satisfaction in this. I'm saddened by it. In all of our countries it's the product of 60 years of liberalism. But there is one fundamental difference in the US vs Canada and the UK. We are armed and heavily armed. Now forces on the left are trying to reverse this but I don't think they are gonna be successful. If push comes to shove, US patriots will take up arms against the terrorists. I hope it doesn't come to that.
31 posted on 10/10/2011 10:30:43 AM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: The Theophilus

Attempting to read into the text a comparison between Jews of the 1930s and Moslems of the current decade is an act of idiocy.

But you weren’t attempting to do that, right?


32 posted on 10/11/2011 12:41:14 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer
Attempting to read into the text a comparison between Jews of the 1930s and Moslems of the current decade is an act of idiocy.

You are correct. Even in the propaganda film "Der ewige Jude" between depicting the Jews as rats and inhuman, the film makers, in the attempt to create an atmosphere of class warfare threw up 1930's versions of Power Point slides showing how wildly successful the average Jew was, dominating all the professions and running most businesses. This is the total opposite what we see from the bastard side of Abraham's children in today's Europe.

But that wasn't what I was pointing out. The idea of looking for a [final] solution to rid society of a demographic, a process usually called "genocide", won't win you humanitarian awards. Tongue in cheek, I was pointing out that you were one word away from recommending box cars and acid showers.

But you weren’t attempting to do that, right?

Just as you weren't recommending genocide.

Its a frustrating reality that seems to beg for thinking the unthinkable - even though history demonstrates that purges and genocide is almost always the way this "problem" is handled.

33 posted on 10/11/2011 5:22:10 AM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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To: The Theophilus

Wonder if the Crusaders in medieval Palestine, or the Spanish overwhelmed by Moslems, speculated about the niceties institutionalized by modern etiquette.


34 posted on 10/11/2011 9:46:23 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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