Britain is a centre of intense plotting and faces a terrorist threat of “unprecedented scale, ambition and ruthlessness”. In a stark warning for the future, Dame Eliza added: “It remains a very real possibility that they may, sometime, somewhere attempt a chemical biological, radiological or even nuclear attack”.
The Scottish people tend to be anti-Iraq war and pro-Palestinians.
Some of those involved in the plot may have been double agents and some may have been patsies.
U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials believe the attempted terrorist attacks last weekend in England are a preview of the next terrorist assault on the United States.According to the Washington Post, the unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks are designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, require little training, and are difficult to prevent.
In a story entitled, Exclusive: U.K. Terror Plot — Why the Bombs Failed, writers Richard Esposito and Jim Sciutto attempt to explain why the car bombs discovered in two Mercedes in London last week failed to ignite, citing a “medical syringe used as part of the firing mechanism,” that “caused a malfunction.”
Police were said to have found the note, describing the men’s motives and grievances, CNN reported.
Fears of a backlash against Muslims are rising tonight in the wake of the car bomb plot.
It came as a Pakistani-born Scotsman’s newsagents was ram-raided and fire-bombed in Glasgow.
According to Brian Ross of the ABC “Investigative Team,” the lad pictured is a Taliban “suicide bomber” school graduate. “Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com,” Ross reports, or rather reads from a Pentagon script. “Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.” “These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places,” Taliban military commander Mansoor Dadullah avers on the videotape. “Why shouldn’t we go after them?”
Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.
COMMENT: Yet more fearmongering. If things really do start blowing up then we all know where to look first. Cui Bono?
The number of people killed around the world in terror attacks rose by 40% last year to more than 20,000, the US State Department has said. The increase is mostly due to greater violence in Iraq the State Department’s annual report on terrorism says.
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