Britain called Number One Islamic /AlQueda Terrorist Target

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This story is from our news.com.au network Source: AFP
Britain top target for al-Qaeda
From correspondents in London
October 19, 2006

BRITAIN was the top target of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, which now presented a bigger threat than ever before, The Guardian reported today.
Citing unnamed anti-terrorism chiefs, the newspaper said 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 said.
Another unnamed source told the daily: "Britain is sitting at the receiving end of an al-Qaeda campaign.''

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20608003-1702,00.html
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Oh, and quelle surprise: Not really.
 
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UK is doing really well at the moment, we're official the fattest country in Europe, we have the highest personal debt and now the number 1 target for Al Queda!
 
SteveGrenard said:
This story is from our news.com.au network Source: AFP
Britain top target for al-Qaeda
From correspondents in London
October 19, 2006




Oh, and quelle surprise: Not really.
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Maybe the US should wage a war of liberation on the UK!

You know, fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here!

Well, it makes about as much sense as the crap we're doing in Iraq :confused:
 
Darat said:
UK is doing really well at the moment, we're official the fattest country in Europe, we have the highest personal debt and now the number 1 target for Al Queda!
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And the worst teeth, of course . . . but thank goodness for your beer! :) Real ale forever!

If all of the Muslims are to be driven out by the 4th US Infantry division, where will you get a kebab? At least one can get a good curry from an Indian who is Hindu, and not a Muslim, or the UK's entire culinary system would break down!

DR
 
Darth Rotor said:
At least one can get a good curry from an Indian who is Hindu, and not a Muslim, or the UK's entire culinary system would break down!
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Most of the curry shops around here seem to be Bangladeshi.

We've got a chip shop as well, but that seems to be run by Turks.
 
I seem to recall that it was the lack of central organisation that was supposed to make AQ such a threat. I'd have thought that this move to a more hierarchical structure was going to make life easier for the secret services.
 
JamesM said:
I seem to recall that it was the lack of central organisation that was supposed to make AQ such a threat. I'd have thought that this move to a more hierarchical structure was going to make life easier for the secret services.
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You have a point - we were being told earlier that they represented a different type of terrorism, that they didn't operation like groups such as the provisional IRA - if they are now starting to operate like such groups then it would suggest that our decades of combating such terrorism will help us.
 
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despite a more-than-four-year campaign by a US-led coalition to wipe out the network.
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What campaign? Not that stupid action in Iraq. Afghanistan is simply a holding action around Kabul, not a "campaign" in any sense. And I don't think we're doing much in Pakistan.
 
CFLarsen said:
How many have you guys got?
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Well, we have anti terrorism units in the police, in the armed forces, in the Security Service ("MI5") and in the Secret Intelligence Service ("MI6"). There are also people in the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence who could claim the title. There are any number of inter-departmental, and inter-service working groups on terrorism. And any senior member of any of thee units, or working groups could probably be classified as an "anti-terrorism chief".
 
Steve, you really ARE pushing it up hill when you have to post reports out of an Australian newspaper run by American yellow-journalism mogul and expert Rupert Murdoch which was written by unnamed correspondents in the UK who write for The Guardian, quoting a lot of anonymous sources somewhere else in the world for their comments on the subject.

Honestly, this could be totally made-up crap out of some guy's head and there's no way known any of it could be verified by anyone anywhere. And yet you march this stuff around here as if this is going to convince someone of something!

You should buy shares in Google...

Look. Hold on, just sit there for a sec. I'll go get you another straw to clutch...
 
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brodski said:
Well, we have anti terrorism units in the police, in the armed forces, in the Security Service ("MI5") and in the Secret Intelligence Service ("MI6"). There are also people in the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence who could claim the title. There are any number of inter-departmental, and inter-service working groups on terrorism. And any senior member of any of thee units, or working groups could probably be classified as an "anti-terrorism chief".
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Too many cooks. :)
 
Zep said:
Steve, you really ARE pushing it up hill when you have to post reports out of an Australian newspaper run by American yellow-journalism mogul and expert Rupert Murdoch which was written by unnamed correspondents in the UK who write for The Guardian, quoting a lot of anonymous sources somewhere else in the world for their comments on the subject.

Honestly, this could be totally made-up crap out of some guy's head and there's no way known any of it could be verified by anyone anywhere. And yet you march this stuff around here as if this is going to convince someone of something!

You should buy shares in Google...

Look. Hold on, just sit there for a sec. I'll go get you another straw to clutch...
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I offer the subject for discussion. I am acting as a messenger. And yes,
there is this per Darat:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6065460.stm?ls

I see your neotenous salamander has made a re-appearance. Welcome back. Living salamanders are absent from Australia in the wild. Are there a lot of them in the pet or aquarium trade?
 
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SezMe said:
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What campaign? Not that stupid action in Iraq. Afghanistan is simply a holding action around Kabul, not a "campaign" in any sense. And I don't think we're doing much in Pakistan.
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Uh, wrongo pal. There are people in the field quite a bit beyond Kabul.

Doing much in Pakistan is, shall we say, a politically delicate proposition. The government there has not invited much of any assitance from NATO forces. The old privileged sanctuary of Cambodia springs to mind.
Anyone else? Bueller?

DR
 
"people in the field" constitutes a "campaign"? Not in my book. There is a reason why Karzi is known locally as the "Mayor of Kabul"


And your notes on Pakistan simply reinforce my skepticism.

I think your "wrongo" is, well, wrongo. Pal.
 
Darat said:
UK is doing really well at the moment, we're official the fattest country in Europe, we have the highest personal debt and now the number 1 target for Al Queda!
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Are we now the number one target because we're the fattest? You know, easier to aim at and all. . .

'We' being the UK generally. I personally am not the fattest. I don't think. Probably.
 
We're way fatter in the US than you are. Your so-called "big breakfasts" are just a warmup to our grease-laden bouts of gluttony.

You did have a nice little local restaraunt, though, that had the "farmer's grill", which had 8 different meats and an egg on top. We ate that for dinner every day, and a couple of days for lunch as well, except the last day when we went to an all-you-can-eat buffet for dinner. I had an attack of pancreatitis on the flight back to the US, brought on from way too many triglycerides. Oh man, we did a number on a roadside fish and chips shoppe, too. The Indian guy we were with said we could take it into the pub to eat, which we did, making a huge mess. The waitress brought us our beers, looked at the mess, and said, cynically, "very nice."
 
Beerina said:
We're way fatter in the US than you are. Your so-called "big breakfasts" are just a warmup to our grease-laden bouts of gluttony.

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More evidence to support the theory - the first target of Al Qaeda was the USA obviously because you are the fattest!

I think we are onto something with this.
 
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