Intelligence chiefs warn of UK insurgency

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=122e41f1ad56da80

Big News Network.com Monday 8th August, 2005 (UPI)

Intelligence chiefs have warned Prime Minister Tony Blair that Britain may be facing a full-blown Islamist insurgency rather than a sporadic terror campaign.

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And while prior to the July 7 and 21 bombings, security services concentrated on the threat from British-born militants trained abroad, attention is now focusing on the pool of migrants to Britain from the Horn of Africa and central Asia.

A well-connected source told the Independent newspaper Sunday that there were more than 100,000 people in Britain from completely militarized regions such as Somalia and Afghanistan. Every one of them knows how to use an AK-47, said the source. About 10 percent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives. That adds up to tens of thousands of men.

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I feel like the Crusades are beginning again!!!

[wli]

1. or the Inquisition

Whatever's going on, it's not good.

[Gyre]

2. I challenge the "well-connected source"

re: what he claims to know, and how he claims to know it. What unsubstantiated BS. Guess the limeys are going to beat us to national hysteria; a dubious honor.

Gyre

[tocqueville]

3. Amazing crap ! Insurgency on what grounds ?

this guys are nuts. UK isn't Iraq : people have rights, they eat, work, have fun...

99.9% of the Muslims are happy to be in the UK, even if a great part of them dislike Blair's (and Bush) Iraq policies. Like the vast majority of the white "christian" UK-citizen. That's no reason to start an insurgency.

the aim of this report is to create fear

[nashville_brook]

4. ain't it the truth!

blindfolded? really?

[msongs]

5. so much for welcoming refugees into your home n/t

[femmecahors]

6. Tony is stealing from George's playbook . . .

terrorize the sheeple so they'll huddle around their great shepherd . . . who eventually leads them to the slaughterhouse.

I'm here in la belle France and was at a cocktail party the other night where I was chatting with a British couple. I mentioned that I hadn't seen many British license plates over here on the continent this summer.

They told me that the Brits are afraid to get in the Chunnel . . . and the ferry is too expensive . . . so I guess that Tony's FORTRESS GREAT BRITAIN plan is working.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. That's not an attitude I've heard here in the UK

And, considering that the Chunnel has tended to be more expensive than the ferries (though they are now lowering their prices to be more competitive), it doesn't sound like a decent explanation.

[lovuian]

7. they have a 100,000 men marked as insurgents

Why do I feel like they are going to export them out of the country!!!