But no such plot materialised...until a few days ago...which was very, very, very convenient...because of some very, very serious allegations made by Moazzam Begg that the FCO rejected proposals to negotiate the release of Alan Henning, rejections that ultimately led to Alan having his head sawn off and cited as a casus belli.
Earlier this week four young men were arrested on suspicion of plotting a beheading on behalf of Islamic State. David Cameron was cited as telling us months ago that there were such plots but nobody believed him. The media also cited the 'evidence' they had that one of the suspects had referred to 'smelling a war' on a twitter account, that that same suspect had recently returned from Syria and that that same suspect was studying medicine and was nicknamed "The Surgeon".
But the case is collapsing. One of the suspects in this case of alleged Islamic State beheaders is actually an Iraqi Kurd. Other suspects are referred to by friends and neighbours as being nice boys who open doors for old grannies.
But this is the month of Halloween. We are all supposed to be terrified, right?
Yeah. Terrified. Absolutely fucking terrified.
So today police officers have been asked to be more vigilant, not just to protect the general public but particularly for their own safety:
Police officers have been warned to be extra vigilant for their own safety after intelligence emerged that terrorists may target them in an attack.
The internal threat level for police has been raised from moderate to substantial, the Guardian has learned, meaning a terrorist targeting an officer is considered by intelligence analysts to be a “strong possibility”. The threat level for officers on the British mainland is at the third of five levels.
The decision to raise it was made on Friday after the security services passed information to police based on terrorist “chatter”. Officers have been reminded to follow safety measures, such as making sure they cannot be identified as members of the police service when off duty.
Previously terrorists are known to have planned a plot to kidnap and kill a soldier and last year two men ran over and killed Lee Rigby, a private drummer in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, in a street near Woolwich barracks, south London.
[source : Terrorist ‘chatter’ raises threat level for UK police, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/10/terrorist-chatter-raises-threat-level-uk-police, 10th October 2014]
Is that the same Lee Rigby who was murdered by Michael Adebalajo, who MI5 were trying to recruit and was allowed to preach bloody Jihad against President Assad of Syria because it is current British foreign policy to oust Assad using cutthroat Jihadis, a policy which needs a constant supply of fresh recruits which preachers like Adebalajo can supply?
And Mayor of London Boris Johnson is not missing out on the Halloween celebrations:
Thousands of terror suspects in the UK are being monitored by the security services, it has been claimed.
Far more militants than previously thought are under surveillance, according to the Mayor of London.
Boris Johnson said the threat from Islamist extremists may be greater than officials have admitted.
It had been believed that the main danger came from some 500 jihadis who have travelled to Syria and Iraq from Britain to join Islamic State or Al-Qaeda. About half of these have since returned to the UK.
But Mr Johnson told the Daily Telegraph the danger was much more widespread than the relatively small numbers of extremists who have gone abroad to fight.
‘In London we’re very, very vigilant and very, very concerned,’ he said. ‘Every day – as you saw recently, we had to raise the threat level – every day the security services are involved in thousands of operations.
[source : London should be 'very concerned' about terror threat: Boris Johnson says security services are monitoring thousands of Islamic extremists who pose risk to public, The Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2788868/london-concerned-terror-threat-boris-johnson-claims-security-services-monitoring-thousands-islamic-extremists.html, 11th October 2014]
In case you're not already shitting your pants, here is a phantom from Scooby Doo.
Absolutely fucking terrified now?
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