Britain now top target for Al-Qaeda

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Of course this should not interfere with plans for the massive new mosque being proposed.

[quote]Britain now top target for Al-Qaeda
Wed Oct 18, 7:55 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - Britain is the top target of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, which now presents a bigger threat than ever before, a newspaper reported.

Citing unnamed anti-terrorism chiefs, The Guardian newspaper said that Al-Qaeda had regrouped and recovered its organisation in Pakistan, despite a more-than-four-year campaign by a US-led coalition to wipe out the network.

In that time, the newspaper reported, the terror organisation has become a more coherent network with a regular supply of volunteers.

Islamic extremists “viewed 7/7 (the July 7, 2005 suicide attacks on London’s transport network) as just the beginning,” an unnamed senior source said.

“Al-Qaeda sees the UK as a massive opportunity to cause loss of life and embarrassment to the authorities,” the source continued.

Meanwhile, another unnamed source told the daily: “Britain is sitting at the receiving end of an Al-Qaeda campaign.”

Britain is seen as an easier threat for Al-Qaeda than many other countries because of its historic links with Pakistan, with tens of thousands of travellers between the two countries each year, the newspaper reported.

The structure of the terror network has also changed, anti-terror chiefs claim, to a more hierarchical system with greater organisation and inter-linkage, from a threat that was mainly comprised of small groups which shared the same philosophy but were largely self-taught and lacked structure.

“There is a hierarchy within each cell with a very tightly run command and control,” an unnamed counter-terrorism source said.

“It’s all about building up these recruits to consider themselves as Muslim ‘patriots’ and encouraging them to make the leap and ask themselves ‘This is how the west treats Muslims, what are we going to do about it?’”, another unnamed source told The Guardian.
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So nobody wants to go on record with their bogeman alert, hmm? Now isn’t that special.

Well, National Socialism had its ‘Jewish Bolshevism’ bogeyman to rally the masses and Neoconservatives have their ‘Islamic Fascism’ bogeyman.

Some things never change. Just the places and names.

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[quote=“spook”]So nobody wants to go on record with their bogeman alert, hmm? Now isn’t that special.
Well, National Socialism had its ‘Jewish Bolshevism’ bogeyman to rally the masses and Neoconservatives have their ‘Islamic Fascism’ bogeyman.
Some things never change. Just the places and names.[/quote]spook -
Its all a conspiracy spook…just one big conspiracy…Illuminatti…Tri-Lateralists…The Juuuuus!…just one big conspiracy… :unamused:

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They should give Britain back to the British! Or something. Oh, is that for me? Ta. Glug glug glug.

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”]So nobody wants to go on record with their bogeman alert, hmm? Now isn’t that special.
Well, National Socialism had its ‘Jewish Bolshevism’ bogeyman to rally the masses and Neoconservatives have their ‘Islamic Fascism’ bogeyman.
Some things never change. Just the places and names.[/quote]spook -
Its all a conspiracy spook…just one big conspiracy…Illuminatti…Tri-Lateralists…The Juuuuus!…just one big conspiracy… :unamused:[/quote]

I no more believe there’s a monolithic ‘Jewish conspiracy’ than there is a monolithic ‘Islamic conspiracy.’

Both are nutjob confabulations of fevered minds.

The only real ‘conspiracy’ is that of misguided and evil people who think they’re doing the right thing and the misguided and evil come in every shape and form.

Even they’re capable of redemption, though, as Condoleeza Rice, your favorite for president in 2008, illustrated in this speech last week which I’m sure thrilled you:

"Last month, in his speech to the UN General Assembly, President Bush reiterated his deep conviction that the Palestinian people deserve a better life – a life that is rooted in liberty and democracy, uncompromised by violence and terrorism, unburdened by corruption and misrule, and forever free of the daily humiliation of occupation. It is this belief that led President Bush, in June of 2002, to become the first American president to make it a matter of policy that the creation of a Palestinian state, with territorial integrity, with viability, living side by side with Israel, in peace and security, would indeed strengthen peace and security, not just in the region but the peace and security of us all. . .

I know that sometimes a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel must seem like a very distant dream. But I know too, as a student of international history, that there are so many things that once seemed impossible that, after they happened, simply seemed inevitable. I’ve read over the last summer the biographies of America’s Founding Fathers. By all rights, America, the United States of America, should never have come into being. We should never have survived our civil war. I should never have grown up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama to become the Secretary of State of the United States of America. . .

I can only tell you that I, too, have a personal commitment to that goal because I believe that there could be no greater legacy for America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long, who have been humiliated too long, who have not reached their potential for too long, and who have so much to give to the international community and to all of us. I promise you my personal commitment to that goal. . . ."

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A news report released by Mi5 no doubt. The same organization that helped the IRA carry out terror attacks.

If they want to round up a group of useful idiots at a mosque and make them think they’ll be osama’s new suicide bombers, they won’t have too much trouble with their agents pulling the strings.

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Ah good old Connie, whose answer to every question is “I’m a student of history…”

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I think they’re trying to kill us with suspense.

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Britain al Qaeda 3.0’s Main Target
October 19, 2006
Why would al Qaeda 3.0 target Britain? Large numbers of Asians of Pakistani origin in the U.K.
Guardian:
“They viewed 7/7 as just the beginning,” said one senior source. “Al-Qaida sees the UK as a massive opportunity to cause loss of life and embarrassment to the authorities.” A second source agreed: “Britain is sitting at the receiving end of an al-Qaida campaign.”