Reuters: Britain says terrorism attempt likely

[Eugene]

Britain says terrorism attempt likely

By Paul Majendie
Reuters
Sunday, August 13, 2006; 9:42 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - Interior minister John Reid warned on Sunday that another
attempted terrorist attack on Britain was "highly likely" after police said
they had thwarted a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners.

"We think we have the main suspects in this particular plot," Home Secretary
Reid said, "but there could be others out there, perhaps people we don't know."

"It is highly likely there will be another terrorist attempt," he told BBC
television. "The threat of a terrorist attack in the United Kingdom is still
very substantial."

Reid said at least four plots had been thwarted since July last year when four
Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people on London buses and trains, and he did
not deny media claims that police were hunting up to 25 terrorist cells in Britain.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/13/AR2006081300145.html

[MercutioATC]

1. They didn't catch EVERY terrorist in the world???

Well, yeah...I guess it's likely that there will be another attempted terrorist attack.

[mymomwasright]

2. Boo! Be afraid!

EOM

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[leesa]

5. Well, they should stop making terrorists then shouldn't they.

They are using it to manipulate their respective publics in the US and Britain and it's a damned shame.

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[JuniperLea]

12. Yep

I wasn't there but I feel I have plenty of damn empathy. That's just not right... I guess I should have posted that to the person you were responding to... why bother? Jeez.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. My whole family is in NYC

and they don't go into paroxysms of anxiety and fear. They know this is all bullshit. Get a grip.

[adriennui]

8. well, i guess your family is perfect

congratulations. did they have friends who were slaughtered that day?

bullshit? there's alot of bullshit being committed around the world. i'm all in favor of putting a stop to it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. How do you propose to do that?

By terrorizing everyone else that you decide is the enemy?

We were lucky, we didn't lose anyone directly. However my cousin's husband had to crawl out on his hands and knees. Is that close enough? Half the kid's I grew up became firemen, some of them were there that day.

[JuniperLea]

13. I lost business colleagues en mass

I was working in a CA building that was west coast home to many businesses lost that day. I have friends who had to walk all day to get home, all the while worried about their children, spouses, etc.

Yes, bullshit.

[saracat]

15. My whole family are New Yorkers as was I and believe me no one

gives a fig about this. It is all big oil loving BS or fundie end times culture. Perhaps you didn't notice the response of real New Yorkers to the WTC? The t shirt vendors were out the next day! The WTC was a tragedy but New Yorkers handle it differently than the rest of the country which is why the vast majority of them don't support Bush and the War on Terror. And I have a cousin who died that day. And I feel this crap has got to stop and we will not bring freedom at the point of a gun. And we can't stop the rest of the world. If we treated people better and showed respect for other cultures , we wouldn't be in this mess.

[evox]

16. whoa

Take a chill pill.

[BooScout]

22. Is telling people to go to hell really necessary?

Are you somehow more terrorized than the rest of the world or what?

ETA.....see you were tombstombed. RIP.

[TheWatcher]

23. Yes, that's a good citizen. Be controlled, Be afraid, Be cowed.

You can start by using some of that duct tape you no doubt have stored in your bunker to cover your mouth.

Which will have a double effect of positiveness for us here. Not only will we not have to listen to your insulting tone, we won't have to smell the canned tuna and powdered milk on your breath.

[NYC]

24. Hilarious.

Thank you. :hi:

[leesa]

4. Ya think that might be because you keep blowing up Muslims?

Sorta tit for tat, ya know.

[PCIntern]

11. Then they should stop

killing Americans, British, Spanish, and Israelis. Sorta tit for tat as well...

[muryan]

17. See thats just too reasonable

They are allowed to kill us because we are just such awful awful people. :sarcasm:

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. It is now apparent why they replaced Jack Straw

Reid is much more willing to sing their tune.

[acmavm]

14. Silly me but somehow I think it's because Britain let Poodle drag them

in this war and he's been licking bush**/Cheney/neocon but since BEFORE 911.

[truthisfreedom]

18. i liked it better before our governments threatened us. we were only

afraid of terrorists back then.

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. Apparently the plot is coming up a cropper, so we are now on to the

next one.

[LibDemAlways]

20. Cheney must have e-mailed Reid his

talking points under the heading "How to Ratchet Up the Fear." Sounds just like him.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

21. Believe me, Reid can be a totalitarian thug all by himself

"I have known John Reid as a Communist, as a member of the Scottish Labour party and now as a general in the New Labour Army. His march across this ideological battlefield has been seamless with not a hint of embarrassment. But John is an able person, one of the most able in New Labour's high command. They put him up to deliver the message. And they are right, he is a very capable, articulate figure," said George Galloway, the Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin.(*)

Others are less measured. In private, for none will speak on the record, Reid's enemies in the party accuse him, among other things, of being: over friendly with a wanted war criminal(**), an unprincipled dogmatist, both a vacuous New Labour hack and a back-stabbing Old Labour schemer, and a man so in love with the sound of his own logic that he never stops to examine his false initial premise. Worse yet, Reid is a lone Blairite traitor within the ranks of the Scottish Labour party. He remains a relatively isolated figure even within New Labour. Without Blair's blessing, he'd be in the wilderness. He is more of a functionary than a potential leader; an apparatchik. If we had a Politburo instead of a cabinet, Reid would probably be running the State Security Division. And he'd probably be good at it. New Labour or no, there is not so much as a whiff of polenta about him.

(...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,659705,00.html

(*)the article is from 2002, before Galloway was kicked out of the Labour party & became a Respect MP
(**)Radovan Karadzic (plus, of course, his new war criminal buddies)

[savemefromdumbya]

25. We didn't know whether the IRA would attack again either what's new?