Britain warned of new wave of Islamic terrorism
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The police and MI5 must brace themselves to counter a new generation of violent Islamic terrorists, an expert warned today.
Home-grown jihadists intent on murdering others in high-profile outrages "will not wither away", Professor Michael Clarke said.
The director of Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warned a series of successful police operations have turned prisons into "universities of terror".
He said security services may look back at the last eight years as a "golden age of counter terrorism" marked by success and good luck.
Mr Clarke said: "The phenomenon will not wither away in the near future: it is likely to be generational.
"All the available evidence is that radicalisation of alienated Muslim youth in the UK can taken place very rapidly as long as it is based somewhere on personal contact."
Mr Clarke said the evolution of recruitment and terrorist techniques of British cells is "entirely possible" as they learn from their mistakes.
He added: "Most of the plotters have left behind a trail of forensics behind that has led some police professionals to predict that this will seem like a golden age of counter terrorism, when we were both successful and lucky."
A research paper, Terrorism in the United Kingdom: Confirming its modus operandi, highlighted the web of links between a series of plots uncovered since 2001.
Researchers found semi-trained British terrorists are having less contact with core al Qaida figures in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
They said Nato operations in the lawless border territory between the two countries are successfully suppressing terrorist groups.
Continued fighting has disrupted several long-established training camps and prevented leaders, including Osama bin Laden, communicating effectively.
But the paper said al Qaida remains an "inspiration" for British cells who recruit potential terrorists and groom them for violence.
Mr Clarke said criminal trials highlighted the shortcomings of terrorist cells who failed to make viable devices and left themselves open to bugging and infiltration.
He said: "The tradecraft of UK jihadi terrorists is extremely variable. For the movement as a whole this is not a problem.
"Amateurs are as dangerous as professionals if they are lucky, and if there are enough amateurs plotting, some of them will be lucky.
"Those who are not keep the security services stretched and public anxieties high."
Mr Clarke said police and MI5 chiefs should be "proud" of their successes since the July 2005 bombings.
But he added: "It is becoming clear that the UK's security services have done a good job so far in containing a new, home grown threat to public safety and to the UK's chosen way of life.
"Since 2001 we have seen only the first round of the struggle. Prisons around the world are universities of terror and there is no reason to believe that the UK's will not be the same.
"The 90-odd convictions, of which the security services can be proud, will have their own longer-term consequences for which the government must be prepared."
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Islamic terrorism started decades ago, do some reading.
Additionally, the Israeli have been waging a racist war against the Muslims for 60 years & the media never associate Juadism with terrorism did they?
And the Etka in spain, Tamil tigar in Shrilamka and the English & American in Iraq, Afghanstan, Lebanon, Palestine, Eygpt, India, Pakistan, Jordan etc. Their terrorism spanned for hundreds of years and still continuing but you never hear about it.
Its people like you & the one in control of the media that hold a grudge against the Muslims & protray them as terrorists. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
DO SOME READING ABOUT ENGLISH TERRORISM BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT THE MUSLIMS AT THE END OF THE DAY THE MUSLIMS ARE DEFENDING THEIR LAND FROM YOUR VILOENT TERRORISM
From the lie factory.
The war on terror is terror.
A solution to removing any potential threat is to leave those countries the UK is currently invading.
Simple.
All this tripe about Islamaphobia is hampering honest discussion about the Islamic threat to our security and the ability of our security services to deal with this threat. This has to END. Is there such a thing as Islamaphobia - or is it just a word invented by Muslims to brandish about whenever they feel like it? They have obviously learned from the hard left that branding people as racist or Islamaphobic plays to the fair nature of British people and gets them political mileage. This has to END.
Strictly speaking, a phobia is an irrational fear about some innate and unalterable quality of something. Thus, you can be arachnophobic if you fear spiders - spiders cannot change - a spider is a spider. You can be sinophobic if you have an irrational fear of Chinese people - they cannot change either. You can be homophobic - an irrational fear against gay people - who also cannot change. But Islamaphobic ? Religion is a CHOICE it is not an unalterable innate quality. I question if it is even possible to be Islamaphobic in the true sense of the term.
But so desperate are Muslims to portray themselves as the victims in almost everything, that they have conjured up this strange term. And even IF there was such a thing as "Islamaphobia" I think it would be perfectly rational and sensible thing to be. Islam's daily unrelenting death toll, its persecution of women and gay people, the daily bombs - even against its own people and the terror it spawns - I would have thought it would be perfectly sensible to be Islamaphobic - IF it were possible.
Look at www.thereligionofpeace.com to understand why Islamophobia would be sensible IF it could ever really exist in the first place.
This is the crap that you fall for. Islamaphobia is an invention of the Political Elite to create yet more division.
The only terrorists in this country are wearing dark suits and are generally to be found in the heart of the City of London where they'll be planning their next attack .
bush and blair put their 'bovver boots' on and went round the globe,
kicking various countries indiscriminately.
and now they are wondering why anyone wants to terrorise them.
obama appears to be making some moves to undo some of the damage
that his predecessor hoisted upon the world.
the same cannot be said for UK government.
tell that one to catholic priests.
The fact is Islam is interpretted differently in many different places, for examploe female genital mutations is something which happens in some muslim countries in Africa, and comes from the religion they had before Islam came along. Its very shortsighted of you to just take parts of what you hear about Islam, and just assume that that is the way all muslims are.
The fact is this kind of ignorance and easy acceptance of stereotypes is what causes impossible barriers to be made between people today.
The countries where Islam is practised in ways that most shock us westerners are in places where the government is being strongly militarily supported by the US and have nothing to do with the will of the majority, and everything to do with them being in a dictatorship which is armed by the US. Just look at the situation in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, if the US withdrew their support these leaders would never be able to continue treating the people the way they do, Islam is not the problem, it is as usual the US foreign policy.
For all this, British Security Services are offering the British people greater protection, by taking away those freedoms and private moments, which may find them vulnerable to attacks, from the kind of terrorists who killed Jean Charles de Menenzes as he sat on a train at Stockwell Station.
Whatever the shortcomings of RC priests and there are many, I have never heard of one blowing himself up to kill a lot of innocent people and get a quick flight to paradise/heaven. Actually even though they always tell us how great heaven is none of them seem to be in a hurry to get there, maybe they are not sure of their reception! Did any IRA bombers blow themselves up on the advice of their priests?
I assume your logo is meant to be offensive to Jews, it is offensive to me and I am not a Jew
Financial terror to the tune of trillions of dollars evaporating into thin air, abra ka dabra whooosh ! Resulting in thousands commiting suicide due to financial ruin !
Or the decoy of so called Islamic Terror ? Whilst the "pin-stripes" beaver away at you savings !
However, the spate of Muslims blowing themselves, and others, up has continued unabated.
I would suggest that this clearly defines the greater threat to life.
Only in you head!
Or that terror convoy on the M65?
Anyone seen any 'secret' dolcuments being waived around in Downing Street?
BTW, why are so many of those arrested - and NOT brough to trial - during the Easter 'crackdown' still detained. I thought it was 28 days max?
Are our security services also proud of the story in today's Guardian which read like something the BNP might have cooked up?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2
Don't people understand? It's all one big government controlled hoax...
What they don't tell you is most of the attacks by terrorists are either plotted by the governments themselves on themselves (well, on it's citizens/solders) in order to gain backing through fear and demands of retribution, or, they gain prior knowledge about planned attacks and ALLOW them to happen to further their agendas. (Many governments admit these so-called false flag operations, just like the sort Dick Cheney was talking about doing in Iran by painting US boats up like Iranian fleets and blowing them up. And just like he touted in his documents Rebuilding Americas Defences about 'needing another Perl Harbor' - and 9/11 was just 'gifted' to them a short while later...)
Don't get get it?
7/7 happened because the intelligence agencies 'apparently' lost track of someone who was working for them - an Islamic MI5 informant - who miraculously planned and executed the attacks. Really?
Much like the mainstream news reports of recent about scientists and structural engineers and demolition experts talking about the TONS of nano-thermite found in the World Trade Centers wreckage (which can ONLY be produced by the government) and just bizarrely found it's way into the towers... which had such tremendous security, I do believe unknown people winching up tons and tons (read: palets and palets) of the stuff through lift shafts might have been suspicious.
Of COURSE it was an inside job. And, this WILL be exposed in a matter of time. Look into it.
People need to accept reality: Government does NOT care about us. It cares about control and fearmongering to give it unlimited license to invade nations and pass draconian anti-terror laws it then uses (read: abuses) against it's own citizens. Plus, the massive contracts it gives to it's corporate masters along the way.
Is that a camera you have? You're a terrorist...
If you speak out agains the government, you're a terrorist...
Read up on it - don't trust the government.
Or are we to believe the truth... that really, there are very, very, very few people plotting attacks. Even fewer capable of doing them. And, even fewer willing to do them.
It's all a massive overblown hoax to keep us in fear and keep us controlled. Any time the heat gets too much, they bring up another impending terror attack. And, if their approval ratings continue to drop, they might even carry one out - our government, I mean.
The FBI - just like the CIA does on a country-wide basis - has now resorted to training and setting up people as terrorists only to take them down later, and then splash it in the papers that they've saved New York from a massive terror attack, etc. Just like our security services do.
The smart people knew this was because the same people who controlled Bush control Obama. He's their new front man. He's done nothing but EXPAND on what Bush did - expand existing wars, flirt with starting new wars (Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea, and whoever else) and expand spending, expand torture and detainment without trial, and expand the oppression of the government over it's own people.
Government is NOT your friend. People need to wise up, stop believing that government is good for you when all they do is lie, cheat, steal and kill, and teach your children to be suspicious of you and hate you.
If you don't get the last comment, it's simple: Newspapers have been reporting young children are being encouraged at school to snoop, distrust and inform on their parents. Add to this the utter disdain government has for the traditional mother/father/child family unit and their all out attempts to disrupt and destroy it, the picture of the future in countries like Britain and the U.S. is dire.
A very old game. Their are No alqaeda in UK, none in U.S. Only in main stream news. Divide and conquer. All freedom loving peacful people will be dubbed terrorists. All corrupt terrorists will be promoted and place in to the house and senate. They use us dumbed down sheeple to air their dirty laundry. They even poll us to see how the propagaganda is working. e.g "do you think we will be attacked by Al qaeda" I mean why would they poll this. You know why. Translation. If intelligence prepares another false flag and commits genocide against its own citizens, will we get away with it, or will you look at Al qaeda. VERY CLEVER!! Round of applause. Same with Swine flu. Pandemic Only exists in the media. Forced vaccinations on their way.Big bucks for big pharma. MUHAHAHAHAHA!
The smart people knew this was because the same people who controlled Bush control Obama. He's their new front man. He's done nothing but EXPAND on what Bush did - expand existing wars, flirt with starting new wars (Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea, and whoever else) and expand spending, expand torture and detainment without trial, and expand the oppression of the government over it's own people.
Government is NOT your friend. People need to wise up, stop believing that government is good for you when all they do is lie, cheat, steal and kill, and teach your children to be suspicious of you and hate you.
If you don't get the last comment, it's simple: Newspapers have been reporting young children are being encouraged at school to snoop, distrust and inform on their parents. Add to this the utter disdain government has for the traditional mother/father/child family unit and their all out attempts to disrupt and destroy it, the picture of the future in countries like Britain and the U.S. is dire.
Al Quaida? What fabricated nonsense. There is no such organisation in existence. The only terrorists here are the one ones that illegally occupy countries to steal their oil, not sparing a thought for the millions of innocents murdered in the process. The way the government keep us quiet and ensure we continue to behave like robots is by convincing us we are under constant threat and thus their illegal operations are justifiable. Open your eyes people. We are the terrorists and by playing the game and paying taxes to a government such as this we all have blood on our hands.
The War On Turr,Inc is a worldwide $ham.
Dont believe a word of this guff.