| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Mark Gobell
On Gardening Leave
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 4529
|
 Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:12 pm Post subject: Train stations on alert over terror threat fears |
 |
|
Here we go again.
The 9th is on Sunday.
| Quote: | Train stations on alert over terror threat fears
Telegraph
Train stations across London have been put on high alert amid fears of a terrorist attack on transport hubs.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent 8:40PM GMT 06 Jan 2011
17 Comments
British Transport Police cancelled leave and called in extra officers after intelligence was received that terrorists could be planning attacks.
A security source said there was no “imminent” threat and the overall threat level had not changed but there was activity from one of a “handful” of extremist cells that cause concern at any time, leading to an adjustment in policing levels.
It is understood that “intelligence chatter” suggested that transport hubs in London could be a target.
It was unclear last night whether the terrorists were discussing suicide bomb attacks, or Mumbai-style shootings, or a combination of methods.
A Whitehall source said: "The assessment of the threat to transport hubs has been revised. The view is that there is a greater risk than before, so steps are being taken as a precaution."
There have been two serious terrorist plots in the last few weeks that have been linked to Britain.
On December 11 a suicide bomber blew himself up in Stockholm, Sweden while heading towards the central train station.
In Copenhagen, Denmark, last week, police arrested three men with a submachine gun, silencer and ammunition who were allegedly planning a Mumbai-style shooting spree.
Both plots had links to Britain – the Stockholm bomber, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, had been living in Luton, while the alleged Danish terrorist cell had links to a network in Derby, the Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. |
If anyone can pick anything of meaning out of those words, please post it.
_________________
The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
TonyGosling
Editor
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 18335
Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Mark Gobell
On Gardening Leave
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 4529
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Trains and boats and planes ...
We got Al Qaeda in our institutions
We got Al Qaeda in our free and fair press . . .
| Quote: | Government warns aviation of possible al Qaeda attack
Reuters
By Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON | Fri Jan 7, 2011 5:46pm GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - The government has warned the aviation industry of a possible al Qaeda attack, security sources and the BBC said on Friday.
The BBC said it had obtained a letter from the Department of Transport addressed to the air transport sector which explained the reason for heightened threat.
"There are indications that al Qaeda may be considering an attack against a UK airport or aviation sector target," it quoted the letter as saying.
"The economic, political and psychological significance of the UK aviation sector coupled with the large crowds present within some of its major assets would enable a successful attack to fulfil al Qaeda's objectives."
Counter-terrorism advice to the transport sector had updated the threat to "severe," meaning an attack was considered highly likely, a British security source told Reuters, although there was no intelligence of any imminent assault.
Britain's national threat level has been at severe for a year and officials played down the significance of the change for airports and railway terminals, indicating it was a precautionary measure.
The BBC said the letter emphasised that no changes to security measures had been made as a result and that the planned method of attack was unclear.
NO U.S. THREAT
An American intelligence official said U.S. authorities were aware Britain had raised its threat alert level for transport hubs but added there was little indication of any increased threat to the United States.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that British authorities had taken the action based on recent intelligence reporting which suggested increased threats against transport targets but was vague regarding timing or tactics of any possible attack.
A senior Iraqi official said last month that he believed al Qaeda was planning attacks in the United States, Britain and Europe around Christmas, one year after a failed attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner.
"The government has made no secret of the fact there's an ongoing threat of a Mumbai-style attack by al Qaeda which has been threatened across Europe," a British government source said.
"Terrorists are forever talking about their aspirations to attack targets of significance in the Mumbai-style scenario that involves any crowded place which is what airports and railway terminals are."
British police and security services have investigated dozens of suspected plots and arrested hundreds of suspects since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Fifty-two people were killed in London in 2005 when four British Islamists blew themselves up on underground trains and a bus, and the last attempted attack occurred in 2007.
Britain's Department of Transport declined to comment on the latest report, as threat levels for specific national infrastructure sectors are not normally made public.
The Home Office said that if there was any intelligence of an imminent threat or a plot under way the threat level would be raised to "critical," its highest level.
"We've been at severe since last January and we've been policing at severe. We will police all the key sites and other places in London to that threat level," a police source told Reuters.
"Threat levels can go up and sometimes they can go down. But we are policing at severe and there isn't a threat level higher than severe at the moment."
(Additional reporting by Keith Weir, Michael Holden and William Maclean in London and Mark Hosenball in Washington; editing by Andrew Roche) |
So far as I can now work out, we now seem to have:
a national threat level
an Irish threat level
a transport sector threat level
| Quote: | | Britain's national threat level has been at severe for a year |
Whilst the threat level to the transport sector has only just been upgraded to severe, which means that the threat level to the transport sector wasn't severe, even though the threat level to the rest of the country was severe.
Oh what a threatening pickle.
As yet there doesn't seem to be any sign of an insecurity services, police, government or media threat level ...
An Al Qaeda source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to speak on such matters said:
| Quote: | | We see the effects of rising unemployment, VAT and fuel duty price increases, as a growing threat to the effectiveness of our threats. If people are going to be threatened by these threats then our position as the number one threat, is threatened. The only way we can combat these competing threats and to retain our threat is to be more threatening. Hence the threats. Remember that the threat value of our threats can go up and down in a threatening way, which in itself, is quite threatening. |
Sandie Shaw was unavailable for comment.
_________________
The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
conspiracy analyst
Trustworthy Freedom Fighter
Joined: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 2279
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:29 pm Post subject: |
|
|
11/01/11 is the dodgy date?
7/07 was the last big fake event.
Are they planning something on the 11th? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Chat
Usergroups
Calendar
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
