UK terrorist threat level raised to 'severe'

[GodSaveTheTeam]

Big BBC headline on 24.

Not sure what's happening yet cant hear the audio.

The reports will soon begin.

From "substaintial to Severe" as told to us by peter power no less.

[TonyGosling]

UK terrorist threat level raised to 'severe'
Alan Johnston: "The number one job of the government is to keep the public safe"
The UK terror threat level is being raised from "substantial" to "severe", Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said.
The new alert level means a terrorist attack is considered "highly likely". It had stood at substantial since July.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476238.stm

[Frazzel]

with the secretive bio war arms race going on right now, the next false flag might be germ warfare.

[fish5133]

[insidejob]

Listening to journalists trying to explain why the threat level has been risen is laughable. You may as well go out in the street and ask someone - who are more likely to truthfully say, I don't know. The reason seems to be that the terrorists are planning to do terror in the UK but we have no evidence of this.

But I am a little puzzled as to the hidden agenda behind this. Is it noteworthy that today Labour Party activists are on the campaign trail where I am? Doe anyone have any ideas?

[Mark Gobell]

The Terrorise All The Population (TATP) index was raised yesterday, 22.1.10, from SUBSTANTIAL to SEVERE. (Note: MI5 Insist that BLOCK CAPS and BOLD must be used at all times for TATP index levels !)

MI5 Threat level history

[David Rose]

Sad, weird but all too plausible.

Of course the government will not issue any rationale for doing this ..... apart from making the general population more anxious and less trusting of the state?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245390/Breaking-News-UK-terro r-threat-raised-severe.html

Fears of a terrorist attack on Hillary Clinton when she is in Britain next week prompted the UK terror threat level to be raised, according to a leading expert.

Professor Richard Bonney believes the arrival of the U.S. Secretary of State in London next week is why the official level has gone from substantial to severe.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced the shift last night. The new level denotes that an attack is 'highly likely' and is the second highest on a five-step scale.

Mrs Clinton and other leading foreign ministers are due in London this Wednesday and Thursday for two major summits on Afghanistan and Yemen.

Also at the meetings will be Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon.

Professor Bonney, from the University of Leicester said: 'I suppose that Hilary Clinton's arrival is the precipitant; but the Afghan conference is a high profile target, given the number of interested players. (Her visit to London) is a very likely, plausible threat.

'It's a high profile target for some groups, those who seek to disrupt any sort of future peace process in Afghanistan in particular.'
Terror risk

Intelligence sources said the decision followed a 'non-specific' warning from the CIA that the UK is facing an increased threat from Al Qaeda.

The terror threat has not been at this level since July last year.

Mr Johnson insisted there was no intelligence to suggest an attack is imminent, but said the public should be 'more aware'.

Prof Bonney said unless there was some other associated threat that intelligence agencies had been made aware of, it was likely the level will drop back to 'substantial' shortly after the conference.

'It may be maintained for a period afterwards but unless there's some other associated threat which we don't know about it's unlikely it would continue for more than a month,' he said.

Prof Bonney said it was unlikely Al Qaeda would be considering an attack, but affiliated groups may be interested in the conference as a target.

'Increasingly we're seeing the fragmentation of groups, and this is why security forces are having difficult controlling the situation and why resources are fully stretched.'

The move underlines the continuing threat to Britain and increased fears around the globe after the failed Christmas Day attack on a plane over Detroit.

The would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was a student in London before apparently going to Yemen for terror training by Al Qaeda.

Abdulmutallab, who was manhandled to the floor of the jet by passengers after trying to blow up explosives hidden in his underpants as the jet came in to land, warned after his arrest that there were 'many more like me' plotting to strike.

Sources reportedly said the Detroit plot was 'one of the factors' behind raising the alert level but that the move was taken after looking at intelligence 'in the round'.

It is thought intelligence agencies working round the clock in the UK to pick up any possible terror plans had spotted an upsurge in 'chatter' on the internet, which is a key indicator of a possible attack.

The UK's official terror threat was at the severe level for four years after the July 7 bombings in London in 2005 but was downgraded last summer.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Mr Johnson said last night: 'The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has today raised the threat to the UK from international terrorism from substantial to severe.

'This means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but I should stress that there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent.

'JTAC keeps the threat level under constant review and makes its judgments based on a broad range of factors, including the intent and capabilities of international terrorist groups in the UK and overseas.'

He added: 'We still face a real and serious threat from international terrorism, so I would urge the public to remain vigilant and carry on reporting suspicious events to the appropriate authorities and to support the police and security services in their continuing efforts to discover, track and disrupt terrorist activity.'

A spokesman from the Metropolitan Police said the service would review its contingency planning and policing tactics following the announcement.

'People who live, work and visit the capital will continue to see a wide selection of policing tactics being used,' he said.

Raising the terror threat level is mainly designed to increase the vigilance of the emergency services and those working in security jobs, another terrorism expert said.

'I think it's not something that the public will notice very much, in terms of everyday life, said Professor Paul Wilkinson, of the University of St Andrews.

'The level of preparedness and vigilance will be increased. The whole idea is to give the various services, including the emergency services, an update on the threat level.

'It is mainly designed for the emergency services, including the police, and people who work in security jobs, for example in airports and sea ports.'

Professor Wilkinson said: 'People should remember that we are not dealing with an old fashioned national terrorist or separatist group, but a form of transnational terrorism, a network which has affiliates in 90 countries - that's half the countries in the world.'

He said the fact that the level was not raised after the Christmas incident indicated that there is not simply a knee jerk reaction.

'They try to examine all the evidence they have about changing trends. We must remember that the security services have been tremendously successful in preventing some of the worst conspiracies.'

Last week, in a statement on the Detroit incident, Gordon Brown told MPs that a number of terror cells were 'actively trying to attack Britain'.

He announced the creation of a new no-fly list of terror suspects, enhanced security screening at airports and the suspension of flights to Yemen.

The independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile of Berriew, said the Government was right to announce the change in the threat level.

'It is absolutely essential that there should be public vigilance and the Government has - quite rightly - decided that if you don't tell the public to be vigilant, they are not going to be vigilant,' Lord Carlile told the BBC.

'The message from the current change of assessment is not that we should be more afraid but that we should be a little bit more vigilant than we have been.'

Tory MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism sub-committee, said last night it was not surprising the terror threat had been upgraded.

He added: 'The reduced level we have had recently is unusual - we are back to the norm'.

Britain is now on a similar level of alert to the U.S.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245390/Breaking-News-UK-terro r-threat-raised-severe.html#ixzz0dSHxYzek

[acrobat74]

I posted this earlier elsewhere but it fits here as well.
Apologies for the repetition 'barbarians' ...

[Mark Gobell]

What a pile of pants from the Daily Mail and the usual suspects, especially Paul Wilkinson, the chap who wrote volume 2 of Lord Lloyd of Berwicks seminal report into terrorism that led to the first permanent terrorism legislation in the history of these islands. This epic was ghosted by Wilkinson's RAND secondee Dr Bruce "scarier than Bin Laden" Hoffman.

All of which was just a re-hash of Bibi Netanyahu's several crappy books on the subject, written in the wake of the infamous conference at the Jonathan Institute.

TACT 2000 was virtually a verbatim copy of Wilkinson's volume, which was co-sponsored by the RAND corporation and neo-con CFR affiliate, Washington Policy and Analysis Inc.


The Likudisation of UK security policy, courtesy of Princess Bliar.

Think.

If the "how scared should we all be" level has been raised because a few megalomaniacs are gathering at Gordon's behest, then why did they lower said threat level just before the the G8 gathering at Gleneagles in July 2005?

Not entirely consistent now is it.

If the threat level needs to be raised because these war criminals want to have a meeting, then surely they can choose a small island where they can all gather in safety and leave us to get on with our humdrum little lives. In peace.

Not that difficult now is it.

I suggest Ascension island. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere that's easy to defend.

Given that they fly half way round the world just to press the flesh that shouldn't be a problem should it?

They have now admitted that it's them that attracts so called terrorism, yet why is it always innocent civilians that get blown to pieces and not the self described political targets ?

Not entirely consistent now is it?

[David Rose]

The Daily Telegraph talks nonsense ....

However its very clear that US/UK is being prepared for possible huge false flag outrage in near future. This is like the marketing campaign for a Hollywood blockbuster:


V/O "More frightening than 9/11 ... its the female suicude bombers ... more nasty than Mohamed Atta .... these bitches are going to kill, kill, kill (Bill) !!!!!!!!!"


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/northamerica/usa/706274 5/Al-Qaeda-has-trained-female-suicide-bombers-to-attack-West-US-offici als-warn.html

The women, who may have a "non Arab" appearance and be travelling on Western passports, have been prepared for their missions by the Yemeni group responsible for the operation to blow up an airliner over the United States on Christmas Day.

Details of the bombers emerged just hours after British spy chiefs raised the UK threat state to "severe" amid fears that al-Qaeda was planning a wave of attacks against western targets.

Terror experts within the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a unit of MI5, now believe that an attack against the UK is "highly likely".

US law enforcement agents have been told to be on the lookout for female suicide bombers who may attempt to enter the country.

At least two are believed to be connected to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which dispatched underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried unsuccessfully to bring down a transatlantic airliner over Detroit.

Richard Clarke, a former chief White House counter terrorism adviser, said: "They have trained women.

"There are others who are still out there who have been trained and who are clean skins – that means people who we do not have a record of, people who may not look like al-Qaeda terrorists, who may not be Arabs, and may not be men."

Security sources said that it was "inevitable" that al-Qaeda would eventually turn to using women with a western appearance to carry out suicide attacks.

Officials said that airliners and all forms of transport could be targeted as well as sports stadiums, ports and power stations.

Although female suicide bombers have been used to carry out attacks by al-Qaeda in Iraq and Palestinian groups in Israel, none are thought to have been used against European or US targets before.

It has also emerged that two male Arab nationals were refused permission to board planes from Heathrow Airport to the United States earlier this month after their names appeared on a US "no fly list".

The first incident happened last Saturday when British officials refused to allow an Egyptian man permission to fly on American Airlines flight 113 from Heathrow to Miami.

The following day a Saudi Arabian passenger was stopped from boarding United Airlines flight 929 to Chicago. Officials said the man was sent back to Saudi Arabia by British immigration officials.

Both men were denied permission to board the US-bound flights after their names were "flagged" as being linked to potential Islamist terror groups.

Washington officials said the men were part of a surge of people named on its "no fly" list who have attempted to board flights to or in the US in recent days.

In two other cases involving people on the no-fly list, a man in Nairobi, Kenya was kept off a flight last Sunday that would have connected in Amsterdam to Dallas, and a passenger attempting to fly on an American Airlines flight to Los Angeles was stopped in Saint Maarten, in the Caribbean, before he could board a connecting flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

American officials say there were two additional incidents, in Minneapolis and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in which people on the no-fly list were denied boarding, questioned and then allowed to leave the airport without being detained.

Mr Clarke, who was talking to ABC news in the United states, added: "What we don't know is whether this is because everyone is doing a better job of enforcing the no-fly list, or because the list has been expanded, or because the terrorists are attempting to probe our security."

A US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report has also revealed that around 70 American citizens, some ex-convicts, have disappeared into Yemen and Somalia and pose a Jihadist threat to the US.

The latest revelations follow the decision by the Joint Terrorism Analysis centre (JTAC), which is based at MI5's headquarters in London, to raise the UK threat state from substantial to severe – a move which indicates that a UK-based attack is now "highly likely".

The threat is believed to come from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular. Whitehall sources said that the group had demonstrated that it had both the "intent and capability" to mount an attack against a western target.

The decision to raise the threat level was made following briefings to the Prime Minister by the heads of the security services MI5, MI6 and Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), the covert listening agency, and a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee.

It is understood that the threat state was raised because of the increases in "terrorist chatter" picked up by GCHQ in the last month – a development corroborated by officials on Capitol Hill.

World Foreign ministers are preparing to meet in London this week for two conferences to discuss the threat of terrorism in both Yemen and Afghanistan.

But Whitehall sources were insistent that there was no specific intelligence which suggested that either conference was a potential target.

Announcing the raise in threat level, Alan Johnson said on Friday night that "there is no intelligence to suggest than an attack is imminent".

He added: "We still face a real and serious threat to the UK from international terrorism so I would urge the public to remain vigilant and carry on reporting suspicious events to the appropriate authorities and to support the police and security services in their continuing efforts to discover, track and disrupt terrorist activity."

But Patrick Mercer, the Tory chairman of the Commons Counter Terrorism Sub Committee, described the governments warnings as "vacuous".

He said: "Without any information about what to do or how to do it, then informing us of the threat level is meaningless."

Gordon Brown warned earlier this week that "a number of terrorist cells are actively trying to attack Britain and other countries."

His speech to the House of Commons came after he received a briefing on the latest intelligence at a meeting of the Cabinet's National Security Committee.

Mr Brown said the failed attack over Detroit signalled "the first operation mounted outside Arabia by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

He also talked about the increased threat from Somalia in east Africa and the Sahel in West Africa, adding that there would be a greater degree of intelligence sharing with foreign countries.

Abdulmutallab, who tried to set off a bomb in his underwear, has warned his FBI interrogators that up to 20 "more like me" may be preparing further attacks.

[Mark Gobell]

The alleged new Al Q franchise in Yemen, AQAP is reported to have been formed on 22 January 2009, which coincidentally, obviously, was the same day that Saint Obama issued Executive Order 13492 to close Guantanamo.

A video was reportedly released by the group on that date announcing the launch. This clever marketing campaign soon attracted the launch of a few Hellfire missiles too, which is exactly what you'd want being a new Al Q cell I guess.

The accidental synchronicity was quite handy really, given the alleged abundance of former Guantanamo concentration camp inmates who are reported to have joined said group.

Killing two birds with one stone always pays dividends.

One, ramp up the Al Q threat in a new theatre, on the borders of the Saudi paymaster general and two, delicately lay a trap for Saint Obama's ludicrous challenge to the hidden government, to close Guantanamo, by, erm, yesterday.

Yesterday's timely rise in the be very scared index arrived on the 1st anniversary of the franchise launch of the alleged new threat in the Arab peninsula.

[Mark Gobell]

[Frank Freedom]

Wait a while Mark.Unfortunately having been temporarily suspended from my usual non-truth forum I am compelled to post here where everyone knows such obvious lies.I wonder what dimwits could be compelled after all this time of exposure to involve themselves in yet another mock up
chirade of an exercise,involving the usual mif suspects.

Small postcard as per

[fish5133]

Getting ridiculous. maybe these events are being staged to show "real" terrorists how on the ball we are.

Years ago i used to fly into Schipol on Mondays and would take a jar of sugar with me as I stayed in self catering accommodation. Got stopped once and very nice customs lady broke one of her finger nails undoing the strap on my case. On seeing the jar she asked what was in it and didnt even check it was sugar.

[paul wright]

Upping the level of threat means that nothing is going to happen, except a bit of fear amongst what ought to be the ever-dwindling portion of the population gullibly accepting it.
If it's a terrorist threat, then the alert level would be reduced beforehand, to lessen the likelihood of the (employed) 'perpetrators'being apprehended in the committal

[Mark Gobell]

Princess Bliar appears before Chilcot this coming Friday.

[acrobat74]

[Mark Gobell]

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[cem]

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/153778/UK-on-alert-for-women-bombe rs


excerpts from: UK on alert for women bombers

by James Murray and Ted Jeory, Sunday Express, 25 January 2010

[fish5133]

Bin Liner Laden must be in the top 10 of "most comebacks"

Just shows the level of technology the supposed terrorists have if they are still using tapes. Or is it too much of a security risk to use CDs or digital. OBL will be starting his own recording company at this rate

[fish5133]

What is the likelihood of a false flagger to stop Blair attending Chilcot iraq war inquiry?

There are plenty of heavy souvenir models of the Houses of Parliament and Buck house to make ready missiles

Will we see a thrown shoe?

What is the highest insult that could be targetted at Blair?

[TonyGosling]

Britain faces attack from 'toxic cocktail' of enemies
'Military Analysts' latest schizoid pronouncement
Britain will face attacks in future decades from a “toxic cocktail” of state-sponsored terrorists, extremist groups and criminal gangs, British military analysts have warned.
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Daily Telegraph 03 Feb 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7149538/Britain-fa ces-attack-from-toxic-cocktail-of-enemies.html
A Ministry of Defence assessment of future conflicts and threats says that the growth of communications technology and lax border controls will make it easier for enemy states or terrorist groups to trigger attacks within Britain.
The strategy document is at the heart of the defence green paper published yesterday, beginning a debate on the future size, structure and purpose of Britain’s defence forces.
The document, The Future Character of Conflict, suggests that Britain’s security will be threatened at home as well as abroad.
As well as conventional threats from other states’ armed forces, the analysts say that conflicts overseas will increasingly spread to the British “homeland”.
It says: “The merging of state proxies, extremist ideologies and criminal interests into a toxic cocktail, along with the effects of globalisation, such as more porous borders, will make some non-state actors harder to counteract.
“They could employ a wide spectrum of military capabilities, albeit some at a limited scale, but they will nevertheless be capable of innovative tactics that exploit inherent UK vulnerabilities.”
In particular, the paper highlights the role of social networking sites on the internet, saying they make it easier for enemies abroad to trigger violence in other locations, including the UK.
“Social networks will become an important feature of future conflict, and conflict in one area may more easily ignite conflict in another,” the paper says.
The review of future threats was conducted to help prepare for the full strategic defence review that both Labour and the Conservatives have promised after the general election.

[ian neal]

[fish5133]

[Mark Gobell]

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[fish5133]

I was pleasantly enjoying a bright spring morning walk, the birds were twittering and calling for mates, the snowdrops were in profusion amongst the trees and hedgerows all was well with my little moment of heavenly peace. Then i remembered we were on a severe terror threat level and that our soldiers were valiantly fighting in far flung places to make my woodland walk safe. Gosh i thought it aint working , i am enjoying myself too much perhaps the terror threat needs to be raised, oh but it cant its at its highest level. Perhaps i sniff an imminent uk false flag to scare us all again. Were getting close to an election-- qui bono?

[Disco_Destroyer]

Deadly Fungus Spores Invade Woodland After Prolonged Winter

[TonyGosling]

London 'preparing for up to 10 simultaneous terror attacks' in wake of Paris shootings
'We are ready if someone tries with seven, eight, nine, ten'

Adam Withnall @adamwithnall Monday 21 March 2016185 comments
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-preparing-for-10 -simultaneous-terror-attacks-in-wake-of-paris-a6942861.html

Police in London have reportedly been ordered to prepare for as many as 10 terror attacks happening at once across the capital, in a dramatic escalation of the capital’s readiness in the wake of the Paris shootings.

Quoting a Government minister with knowledge of the proposals for enhanced security, the Sunday Times reported that police had made cracking down on firearms a top priority.

It comes after an alleged gang of gunrunners appeared in court charged with smuggling an “evil” shipment of 22 Czech-made assault rifles and nine sub-machine guns into Britain from Eastern Europe.

The National Crime Agency (NCA), which was critical in the operation to arrest the suspects in that case, had reportedly been given new orders amid fears of a Paris-style attack involving terrorists returning from Syria using heavy weaponry.

The unnamed minister was quoted as saying: “We used to plan for three simultaneous attacks but Paris has shown that you need to be ready for more than that.

“We are ready if someone tries with seven, eight, nine, ten.”

According to the Sunday Times, army regiments outside London were also on standby to help the capital in the event of a major coordinated incident.

A spokeswoman for the NCA told the Independent the threat picture in the UK had “changed significantly” in the wake of recent attacks in Europe, including the Paris shootings.

“The Metropolitan Police are the lead force in London, but we continue to work with our partners both nationally and internationally,” she said.

Speaking to the Evening Standard, a Home Office spokesman said they do not comment on operational matters and matters of national security.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-preparing-for-10 -simultaneous-terror-attacks-in-wake-of-paris-a6942861.html