Posted on 12/20/2009 6:43:09 AM PST by mware
Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital.
In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming to London.”
The detective said companies should anticipate a shooting and hostage-taking raid “involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and improvised explosive devices”.
The warning — the bluntest issued by police — has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an attack on London early next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“Before, there has been speculation. Now we are getting what appears to be a definite plot to carry out a firearms attack on London,” he said.
But there's not a damn thing they can do about it. Wouldn't want to stereotype anyone, would we? Even if it costs 500 innocent lives and a few hundred billion. .Wouldn't be worth it. Oh no.
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Labor Strike by Al Qaeda
> Muslim
> suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day
> strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins
> they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with
> Al Qaeda management have so far failed to produce an
> agreement.
>
> The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that
> the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after
> his death will be cut by 25% next January from 72 to only
> 60. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent
> years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent
> shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
>
> The suicide bombers’ union, the British Organization of
> Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a
> statement that this was unacceptable to its members and
> immediately balloted for strike action. General Secretary
> Abdullah Amir told the press, “Our members are
> literally working themselves to death in the cause of jihad.
> We don’t ask for much in return but to be treated like
> this by management is a kick in the teeth.”
>
> Mr. Amir accepted the limited availability of virgins but
> pointed out that the cutbacks were expected to be borne
> entirely by the workforce and not by management. “Last
> Christmas Abu Hamza alone was awarded an annual bonus of
> 250,000 virgins,” complains Amir. “And you can be
> sure they’ll all be pretty ones too. How can Al Qaeda
> afford that for members of the management but not 72 for the
> people who do the real work?”
>
> Speaking from the shed in the West Midlands where he
> currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden
> explained,
>
> “We sympathise with our workers’ concerns
> but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their
> demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of
> modern-day jihad, in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to
> Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of
> virgins in the afterlife. It’s a straight choice between
> reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don’t like
> cutting wages but I’d hate to have to tell 3,000 of my
> staff that they won’t be able to blow themselves
> up.”
>
> He
> defended management bonuses by claiming these were necessary
> to attract good fanatical clerics. “How am I supposed
> to attract the best people if I can’t
> compete with the private sector?” asked Mr. Bin-Laden.
>
> Talks broke down this morning after management’s
> last-ditch proposal of a virgin-sharing scheme was rejected
> outright after a failure to agree on orifice allocation
> quotas. One virgin, who refused to be named, was quoted as
> saying “I’ll be buggered if I agree to anything
> like that........it’s too much of a mouthful to
> swallow”.
>
> Unless some sort of agreement is reached over the weekend,
> suicide bombers will down explosives at midday on Monday.
> Most branches are supporting the strike. Only the North
> London branch, which has a different union, is likely to
> continue working. However, even members of that branch will
> only be using waist-down explosives in order to express
> solidarity with their striking brethren.
“Wouldn’t want to stereotype anyone, would we?”
the Brits aren’t as bad on profiling as they are in America. I think MI5 is perfectly happy to accept that pakkers are more likely to be terrorists
London and the UK has a real problem. Most of the Islamic fanatics are Pakistani in origin although there’s a large swath of Arab elements present in Al Qaeda in other groups.
So the UK has a real problem in its midst. It’s huge in comparison to the US.
It’s a bigger danger in the UK than in India. Indian cops are armed with revolvers. British cops are armed with nightsticks. If an attack happens in the UK, I expect all British cops will henceforth be armed with either revolvers or pistols.
More B S from Washington in the Afghan war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Liberal thinking and war fighting
It’s not just the enemy killing U.S. soldiers
You won’t believe new rules of engagement in Afghanistan
Posted: December 13, 2009
7:26 pm Eastern
F. Michael Maloof
WASHINGTON - New military rules of engagement ostensibly to protect Afghan civilians are putting the lives of U.S. forces in jeopardy, claim Army and Marine sources, as the Taliban learns the game plan based the rules’ imposed limits.
The rules of engagement, or ROEs, apply to all coalition forces of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Their enactment is in response to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s complaints over mounting civilian deaths apparently occurring in firefights.
Despite the fact that the newly arrived U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, imposed the more restrictive ROEs to minimize the killing of innocent civilians, however, the Taliban is well aware of them and has its own forces acting in ways to counteract them.
The impact of new restrictions has created increasing frustration and concern among U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops who now are compelled to follow these rules despite the danger of letting the Taliban live to fight again another day.
Critics see the new ROEs being more oriented toward defensive rather than offensive operations, as evidenced by recent charges of murder against two U.S. Army snipers because they had targeted a Taliban commander who reportedly wasn’t holding a weapon.
The actual ROEs are said to be classified U.S. and NATO secrets, but based on individual soldier accounts, those restrictions include the following:
No night or surprise searches
Villagers are to be warned prior to searches
Afghan National Army, or ANA, or Afghan National Police, or ANP, must accompany U.S. units on searches
U.S. soldiers may not fire at insurgents unless they are preparing to fire first
U.S. forces cannot engage insurgents if civilians are present
Only women can search women
Troops can fire on insurgents if they catch them placing an IED but not if insurgents walk away from where the explosives are.
Often, rules of engagement require varying levels of approvals before action can be taken. In one case, villagers had tipped off U.S. forces of the presence of a Taliban commander who was threatening village elders.
To get permission to go after him, U.S. troops had to get 11 separate Afghan, U.S. and international forces’ approval to the plan. The approval, however, did not come until well into the next day. By then, the Taliban commander had moved on, to the consternation of the villagers who had provided the tip. Observers have claimed that it can take some 96 hours to acquire all the permissions to act.
In other cases, the use of force against insurgents may be blocked if they lower their guns, only to have those insurgents return later to attack.
Also, ISAF troops cannot engage insurgents if they are leaving an area where an IED has been planted. In one case, insurgents planting an IED had detected the presence of U.S. forces and immediately began leaving the area, tossing evidence of their preparations along the way. U.S. forces could not fire on them.
The ROEs in some cases have gone beyond limiting ISAF troops in their operations. In one case, ROE restrictions were in effect when four U.S. Marines twice pleaded by radio for artillery support in combat action in Kunar Province in Afghanistan - and twice they were refused, before they were killed.
F. Michael Maloof, a frequent G2B contributor, is a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
that’s a cracker.
Churchill & Powell told people this 50 years ago. Churchill was ignored & Powell was called a racist.
The UK have some of the most strict firearm restrictions. The folks there don’t even stand a chance.
We should expect to see Mumbai like attacks in this nation as well. We must keep watch. An attack is something very possible now that we have Mr. Hope & Change in office.
Does anyone happen to know how the Asian markets are reacting to this terror warning?
It would be better to change their stupid laws, train and arm the “real” British citizens and let the religion of peace practitioners understand any missteps on their part towards innocent British citizens would cause the mohammedans to cease to exist on the British Isles. Time to start deportations back to their homelands before ANYONE gets hurt, Brit or non-Brit.
Yes, Hennie Pennie, the CITY OF LONDON is a separate jurisidiction that one can cross into (almost like going from Rome into the Vatican city), you really do not know when you are in it, and it is almos exclusivel financial industry related. In this regard, there is no reaction in Asia yet, because it is as dead as a doornail out here right now, being 12 30 a.m. on Monday, and 10 30 p.m. in Singapore, etec ec. Give us another eight or nine years and some reaction may be forthcoming.
You're much safer when we're around.
***Keep your eyes open folks. ***
Let me guess, look out for two White Irish men driving around in a white van...Probably Methodists.
Sarc/off
Thanks again, AIT.
The British are paying the price now for decades of being way too liberal in all their policies. All those decades of such behavior are now coming home to roost and they cannot blame anybody else but themselves. But this phenomena is not only happening in Britain but all over Europe. The Europeans are now seeing what all those years of giving in too liberalism has wrought and what it has wrought is complete and utter disaster for the European people. As an American, I suppose I should feel some kind of sorrow or pity for them but somehow I just can’t seem to work up that synpathy.
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