Britain Raises Terrorism Threat Level to ‘Severe’

New York Times ^ | August 29, 2014 | By Alan Cowell

[Oldeconomybuyer]

LONDON — Alarmed by the suspected presence of hundreds of British jihadis among Sunni militants in Syria and Iraq, Britain increased its assessment of the terrorism threat on its own soil on Friday and said new laws would be introduced to counter what Prime Minister David Cameron called “a greater threat to our security than we have seen before.”

The tone of the warnings recalled the days after July 7, 2005, when four suicide bombers killed 52 travelers on the London transit system. The show of concern, moreover, seemed intended to bolster the government’s case for contentious new legislation to control terrorism suspects.

In what seemed a related development, Mr. Cameron told a news conference that new laws would facilitate the seizure of the passports of suspected British jihadis. He said he would provide more detail in a statement to Parliament on Monday covering what he called legislation to fill “gaps in our armory.”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Makes you wonder what their threat levels are.

1) Pish-posh
2) Harumph
3) I say
4) Severe, formerly “Ruddy”
5) Bugger All

[DoughtyOne]

Britain has the right idea.  Now, face what constitutes that threat and come up with a way to reduce it.


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[GeronL]

Look at Rotherham... the terrorism has been happening for years

[2banana]

When will the level rise to “shoot back and kill the moon worshipers...”

[TurboZamboni]

Mittens:”severe conservative”

[SgtHooper]

Severe, Really Severe. Really Really Severe, Bloody Severe, and Blimey Severe.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. It’s evidence of the problem, and the government needs to recognize the problem and fix it.

[boycott]

Britain Raises Terrorism Threat Level to ‘Severe’

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Obama says, “Fore!!!”

[moose07]

LOL

There are 5 levels of threat:

low - an attack is unlikely
moderate - an attack is possible but not likely
substantial - an attack is a strong possibility
severe - an attack is highly likely
critical - an attack is expected imminently

[mabarker1]

Clicky the Pic

[Oldeconomybuyer]

lol

[I want the USA back]

Hey Brits! You once had a nice country. Not any more. You let hordes of screaming savages in. You paid them the hard-earned money of normal Brits. You let them spawn more maggots by the thousands.
You prevented Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from visiting your country. You jailed normal people who complained about the hordes.
What are you gonna do now?

[jmacusa]

6) Bit of a sticky wicket, wot? “Ruddy’’ is more of an English slang version of ‘’bloody’’ (ruddy’’ being a shade of red, i.e ‘’bloody) . They tend to substitute these two words for the ''f'' word we use so freely. For your number 3 you might say it as "I say, jolly pulse throbbing!''

[moose07]

“It’s wear the Helmet day”
“Put on the dang Helmet”
Thanks for that, plenty of others to watch as well. :)

[mabarker1]

I like the “My State has an Express Lane”

“You kill somebody, We will kill You back!”

[moose07]

“Just stick with eating Crayons!”

Must go ,’Night.

[ronnie raygun]

So lets not strike first lets sit back and get hit. This is what we have protecting us