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Bigfoot73 Great Old One Joined: 19 May 2009 Total posts: 1079 Location: Leeds Gender: Male |
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| The page has gone now, which leaves me wondering as to specifics :- so not only are angry terrorist haters unable to say they would like to kill the terrorists, because they do that themselves, but now they can't say they'd like to take their bombs and shove them up their ****s either. |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
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| Posted: 01-02-2010 07:46 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | But an operation by MI5 has uncovered evidence that Al Qaeda is planning a new stage in its terror campaign by inserting ‘surgical bombs’ inside people for the first time." |
Life imitating art? That was used as a premise in the last Batman movie.
| Quote: | It's quite simple. After a man set his penis on fire in a plane recently, the government felt the need to switch to Terrordetectorisator 'Arthur' with set of balls 3.
'Severe' is the default setting. |
I heard it was because a janitor accidentally knocked the setting on the freezer where they keep Thatcher to defrost  |
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| wembley9 Great Old One Joined: 14 May 2009 Total posts: 242 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 01-02-2010 08:30 Post subject: |
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| ted_bloody_maul wrote: | | Am I being cynical or is the threat level rise not rather good news for Brown? |
Bad news I would have said. It doesn't look good to have rampant terrorism on your watch and the opposition saying "It's only a matter of time before the terrorists attack unless you allow us to put our measures in place" |
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| Dr_Baltar |
| Posted: 01-02-2010 12:54 Post subject: |
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| Bigfoot73 wrote: | | The page has gone now, which leaves me wondering as to specifics :- so not only are angry terrorist haters unable to say they would like to kill the terrorists, because they do that themselves, but now they can't say they'd like to take their bombs and shove them up their ****s either. |
It's just a bad link. Take out the rogue '[/quote]' tag at the end. |
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| ted_bloody_maul Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2003 Total posts: 4877 Location: Quester's Psykick Dancehall Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 01-02-2010 18:55 Post subject: |
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| wembley9 wrote: | | ted_bloody_maul wrote: | | Am I being cynical or is the threat level rise not rather good news for Brown? |
Bad news I would have said. It doesn't look good to have rampant terrorism on your watch and the opposition saying "It's only a matter of time before the terrorists attack unless you allow us to put our measures in place" |
It does if your opponent's David Cameron. Besides it never seemed to do Bush's regime any harm to draw attention to the terrorist threat (nor Blair's for that matter).
Also, Brown's had a recent bounce in the polls although that could be down to any number of factors (including bad polling). |
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| Cavynaut Skoumed!
Usually tired. Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Total posts: 1976 Location: Crouch Wailing. UK. Age: 56 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-02-2010 21:58 Post subject: |
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| Dr_Baltar wrote: |
It's just a bad link. Take out the rogue ' |
' tag at the end.[/quote]
Apologies for that. I'm trying to get used to Google Chrome.  |
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| Quake42 Warrior Princess
Great Old One Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Total posts: 5310 Location: Over Silbury Hill, through the Solar field Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 15-12-2010 15:33 Post subject: |
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You have to wonder why this guy was allowed to stay in the UK.
| Quote: | Al-Qaida planned to bomb Manchester, court hearsUK-based Pakistani national Abid Naseer faces extradition to US over alleged international plot
Share3 Press Association guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 15 December 2010 13.49 GMT Article history
The Arndale shopping centre is believed to have been a possible target in the alleged bomb plot. Photograph: John Sturrock / Alamy/Alamy
A UK-based al-Qaida operative planned a bomb attack on Manchester city centre as part of a terrorist plot targeting the UK, Norway and the US, a court heard today.
Abid Naseer's cell probably intended to attack St Ann's Square or the Arndale shopping centre, City of Westminster magistrates court, in central London, was told.
The 24-year-old faces extradition to the US to stand trial on allegations of providing material support to al-Qaida, conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida and conspiracy to use a destructive device.
David Perry QC, for the US authorities, said: "The allegation is that the defendant was an al-Qaida operative who participated in a conspiracy to attack western interests by the use of explosive devices.
"A wide international conspiracy was conceived by the al-Qaida external operations leader in Pakistan and the conspiracy extended to planning attacks in the UK, Norway and the United States of America.
"The conduct alleged against this particular defendant arises from his alleged involvement between September 2008 and April 2009 in an al-Qaida cell operating in the UK in which the participants conspired to conduct a terrorist attack between 15 April and 20 April 2009 in Manchester city centre, most likely in the vicinity of St Ann's Square or the Arndale shopping centre."
Naseer spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. The Pakistani national was one of 12 men arrested in counter-terrorism raids in north-west England last year over a suspected bomb plot.
He was released without charge and in May won the right to stay in Britain when a judge ruled his safety could not be guaranteed if he returned to Pakistan.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/15/al-qaida-planned-bomb-manchester-naseer |
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rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-12-2010 11:11 Post subject: |
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This doesn't boost my confidence in TWAT
US intelligence chief unaware of UK terror arrests
James Clapper stumped after being asked on ABC about anti-terror raids carried out earlier this week
Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 23 December 2010
The head of US intelligence was exposed on national television yesterday as being unaware of the arrests in Britain of suspects in an alleged terrorist plot.
James Clapper, director of national intelligence, looked stumped when asked by Diane Sawyer on ABC about the arrests of 12 suspects in London and elsewhere around Britain earlier this week. "London?", Clapper asked, looking puzzled.
Later, the White House admitted that Clapper had not known about the developments in the UK.
John Brennan, the White House adviser on homeland security and security, said; "Should he have been briefed by his staff on those arrests? Yes."
The show was taped on Monday but hours after the arrests, which received wide coverage on US television.
The gaffe could make life difficult for Clapper as the post of director of national intelligence, since its creation after the 9/11 attacks, has been a controversial one, seen as an extra agency in an already crowded field, and without real power. It was intended to co-ordinate the work of the dozen or so US intelligence agencies but has yet to establish serious credibility.
Clapper's job is to brief the president each morning on intelligence developments.
One explanation offered is that he was focused on North-South Korean tensions. Brennan, defending Clapper at a press conference, said: "I know there was attention by the media about these arrests and it was constantly on the news networks. I am glad that Jim Clapper is not sitting in front of the TV 24 hours a day and monitoring what is coming out of the media."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/23/us-intelligence-chief-unaware-terror |
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| Bloodbeard Yeti Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Total posts: 56 Location: Galway Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-01-2011 23:03 Post subject: |
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Are there any really 'terrorists' anywhere? It seems to me that all we have is numerous rogue elements of various nations intelligence agencies running around, acting the arse without any official recognition or instruction.
Russia, Pakistan, USA, Britain Israel and France seem to be the countries most obsessed about terrorism and seem to be the countries who's security services seem to be responsible for an awful lot of acts of terrorism |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-01-2011 23:30 Post subject: |
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| Bloodbeard wrote: | Are there any really 'terrorists' anywhere? It seems to me that all we have is numerous rogue elements of various nations intelligence agencies running around, acting the arse without any official recognition or instruction.
Russia, Pakistan, USA, Britain Israel and France seem to be the countries most obsessed about terrorism and seem to be the countries who's security services seem to be responsible for an awful lot of acts of terrorism |
Reminds me of an INLA "mission" in 1993. 3 inla members went to england to rob explosives from a quarry. One of them was an MI5 plant, another was working for Garda special branch & one patsy. The operation wouldn't have happened without the aid of MI5 & the Garda. |
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| Bloodbeard Yeti Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Total posts: 56 Location: Galway Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-01-2011 01:29 Post subject: |
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| Yup. INLA were a bit of a by word for ineptitude and infiltration as were the UDA, UFF and sundry others there are growing underground noises about Gerry A, watch out he's going to win in Louth |
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 851 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 21-02-2011 10:50 Post subject: |
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| Bloodbeard wrote: | Are there any really 'terrorists' anywhere? It seems to me that all we have is numerous rogue elements of various nations intelligence agencies running around, acting the arse without any official recognition or instruction.
Russia, Pakistan, USA, Britain Israel and France seem to be the countries most obsessed about terrorism and seem to be the countries who's security services seem to be responsible for an awful lot of acts of terrorism |
To add fuel to your suspicions, this time in Egypt :
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/07/136723.html
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Probe starts on Adly’s reported role in Alex church attrack
Ex-minister suspected behind Alex church bombing
Egypt's general prosecutor on Monday opened probe on former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly's reported role in the New Year's Eve bombing of al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria in which 24 people were killed, an Egyptian lawyer told Al Arabiya.
Laywer Ramzi Mamdouh said he had presented a proclamation to Egyptian prosecutor Abd al-Majid Mahmud to investigate news media reports suggesting that the former interior ministry had masterminded the deadly church attack with the intent to blame it on Islamists, escalate government crackdown on them, and gain increased western support for the regime.
Mahmud said the information contained in some reports were "serious."
The proclamation, numbered 1450, pointed to the news reports sourcing a UK diplomat who explained the reasons why Britain has insisted on the immediate departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his regime, especially his interior ministry's security apparatus previously directed by el-Adly.
According the UK diplomatic sources quoted in the reports, the former interior minister had built up in over six years a special security system that was managed by 22 officers and that employed a number of former radical Islamists, drug dealers and some security firms to carry out acts of sabotage around the country in case the regime was under threat to collapse.
The proclamation also pointed, sourcing reports on UK intelligence services, that interior ministry officer Maj. Fathi Abdelwahid began in Dec. 11, 2011 preparing Ahmed Mohamed Khaled, who had spent 11 years in Egyptian prisons, to contact an extremist group named Jundullah and coordinate with it the attack on the Alexandria church.
"Discipline the Copts"
Khaled reportedly told the group he could assist with providing weapons he had allegedly obtained from Gaza and that the act was meant to "discipline the Copts."
After contact was made, a Jundullah leader named Mohammed Abdelhadi agreed to cooperate in the plot and recruited a man named Abdelrahman Ahmed Ali to drive a car wired with explosives, park it in front of the church and then leave it to be detonated by remote control, according to the report.
But Maj. Abdelwahid, who worked for the interior ministry, reportedly detonated the car before the Jundullah recruit got out, therefore killing him and 24 worshipers in the church.
After the attack, the interior ministry officer asked Khaled to go meet the Jundullah leader in an Alexandria apartment and evaluate the success of the attack.
A few days later the two men met in an apartment in Alexandrian's Abdel-Moneim Riad street. During their meeting Maj. Abdelwahid and his security forces raided the apartment and arrested them. They were then driven immediately on ambulance to an interior ministry building in Cairo.
They stayed in detention until Jan. 28 when the ministry of interior and its security system broke down allowing them to escape as did thousands of prisoners around the country.
When they fled, both the men went straight to the UK embassy in Cairo and told the story of how they were set up by the government to carry out terrorist attacks, according to the reports.
(Translated from Arabic by Mustapha Ajbaili) |
Other links :
http://www.eip-news.com/2011/02/explosive-revelations-from-egypt-copts-setup-by-former-interior-minister-habib-el-adly/
http://qwmagazine.co.uk/news/ex-minister-suspected-behind-alex-church-bombing |
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 851 Gender: Unknown |
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Same suspicions in Pakistan :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Benazir-Bhutto-murder-case-Musharraf-declared-absconder/articleshow/7446263.cms
| Quote: | Benazir Bhutto murder case: Musharraf declared absconder
Omer Farooq Khan, TNN, Feb 7, 2011, 08.46pm IST
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been declared an absconder after a court in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi accepted the interim chargesheet submitted by the investigation agency, which named the ex-president as an accused in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
Investigators of Pakistan's leading Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted a chargesheet in Rawalpindi's anti-terrorism court on Monday, listing Musharraf as one of the accused in the assassination of the former two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The court accepted the challan (chargesheet) after the testimony of police officials detained for alleged dereliction of duty over the assassination of the former PM. Former Rawalpindi police chief Saud Aziz and superintendent of police Khuramm Shazad were arrested last December after allegations were levelled against them for providing inadequate security to the former premier, hosing down the crime scene and destroying the evidence.
Aziz claimed in the testimony that the order to change Benazir's security in-charge had been given by Musharraf. He also stated that the scene of the assassination was immediately washed on Musharraf's orders. FIA's prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar told the court that Musharraf had been named as an "absconding accused" as he was not cooperating in the investigation.
Chaudhary said that both detained police officials were in contact with the former president and were following his orders. "The phone records confirm contact between Musharraf and Saud Aziz," he said. The prosecutor requested the court to declare Musharraf as an absconder until the next hearing on February 12, and if he failed to appear at the court, he should be declared proclaimed offender.
A report of Benazir Bhutto's BlackBerry mobile set was also submitted in the court.
According to the report, she neither received any call nor did she phone from her set from 3:00pm till she was attacked. The report further revealed that Benazir Bhutto even did not contact her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, during that time.
Ms Bhutto was mysteriously killed in a gun and bomb attack outside Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh, when she was returning after addressing a rally during her election campaign on December 27, 2007. The Musharraf regime had blamed then Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsood for Benazir's killing, a charge denied by Pakistani Taliban.
Last November, the FIA sent a 32-point questionnaire to Musharraf, seeking explanations on serious security lapses that caused Ms Bhutto's assassination. Musharraf, however, refused to accept the questionnaire. The UN commission that probed the Bhutto assassination had also blamed Musharraf for failing to provide adequate security to the former premier.
Barrister Saif, a spokesman for Musharraf, dismissed the FIA report as politically motivated and said it was aimed at hiding the real causes of the murder of Benazir Bhutto.
Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile in Britain since April 2009, had said that he intended to return to Pakistan before the next general election in 2013. He formed a new party in exile, the All Pakistan Muslim League, but none of his politician friends who supported him for ten years as president in uniform is ready to accept him as civilian leader.
The anti-terrorism court is conducting the trial of five suspects, including members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, who have been charged with planning and facilitating the assassination. Last year, a Pakistani newspaper reported that Bhutto's murder plot was hatched at the official residence of an army official of the brigadier rank. |
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_benazir-bhutto-assassination-investigators-to-seek-pervez-musharraf-s-extradition_1507260
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Benazir Bhutto assassination: Investigators to seek Pervez Musharraf's extradition
Published: Sunday, Feb 13, 2011, 15:24 IST | Updated: Sunday, Feb 13, 2011, 15:25 IST
Place: ISLAMABAD | Agency: PTI
Pervez Musharraf Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency will seek the extradition of former President Pervez Musharraf after his refusal to appear before an anti-terrorism court on charges that he failed to provide adequate security to slain former premier Benazir Bhutto.
"We have decided to write to the home secretary of the UK for General Musharraf's extradition," an unnamed senior FIA official was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune newspaper.
The decision was made at a meeting chaired yesterday by interior minister Rehman Malik, the report said.
An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of Musharraf after the special prosecutor handling the case alleged that he had not cooperated with the investigation into Bhutto's assassination.
Pakistan and Britain do not have a formal extradition treaty, which is likely to make the process complicated, said legal expert Salman Akram Raja.
Any extradition request will depend on relevant British laws, he said.
Musharraf's legal advisor Muhammad Ali Saif said there was "no possibility" of the former military ruler appearing in court despite the warrant.
He also challenged the allegations levelled against Musharraf.
The FIA earlier named Musharraf as an "absconder", saying he had failed to cooperate with investigators.
Musharraf was accused of failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto after she returned to Pakistan from self-exile in October 2007.
Bhutto was killed by a suicide attacker in Rawalpindi two months later.
Investigators have also alleged that two police officers, who were recently arrested for negligence in providing security to Bhutto, were acting on Musharraf's instructions.
The prosecution is also dealing with a change of the head of the team investigating Bhutto's killing.
The interior minister has appointed FIA Director Wajid Zia as the new head of the team.
Khalid Qureshi, the former head, will join a course at the Lahore Staff College this week.
However, some observers believe the government was unhappy with Qureshi because he implicated Musharraf without taking the interior minister on board and revealed his findings in court, The Express Tribune reported.
The observers criticised the interior minister's decision to appoint a junior official to head the investigation, saying it might slow down the momentum of the probe.
The prosecution has not alleged that there is any direct conspiracy between slain Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and Musharraf, but it names both as jointly responsible for Bhutto's death.
"Musharraf was equally responsible for facilitation and complicity in the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto through failure in providing her the requisite security that her status demanded as a twice-elected premier," said a 57-page report submitted by the prosecution in court.
According to the prosecution, Musharraf was aware of the imminent danger to Bhutto's life but did not take action to prevent her assassination. |
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8238855-benazir-bhutto-murder-case-warrants-of-expresident-musharraf-issued-again
| Quote: | Benazir Bhutto murder case: Warrants of Ex-President Musharraf issued again
RAWALPINDI: Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi on Saturday again issued arrest warrants of former President Gen Pervaiz Musharraf (retd) in Benazir BhuttoBenazir Bhutto assassination case, Geo News reported.
Judge Rana Nisar of ATC-III heard the case in Adiyala jail. The court issued warrant and ordered the authorities concerned to send it to the residence of former President in Islamabad and London.
Accused police officers Saud Aziz and Khurram Shehzad were also present during the hearing of the case.
FIA presented the report on non-compliance of the earlier orders of Musharraf’s arrest.
Later, the court adjourned the hearing till March 05. |
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| Quake42 Warrior Princess
Great Old One Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Total posts: 5310 Location: Over Silbury Hill, through the Solar field Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-05-2011 12:05 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Sellafield nuclear site terror arrests made
Five men are being held under the Terrorism Act after being arrested close to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, according to police.
The men, who are all from London and aged in their 20s, were arrested on Monday shortly after 1630 BST.
The arrests were made after Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers conducted a stop check on a vehicle close to the Sellafield site, in Cumbria.
The men were held in Carlisle overnight and are being moved to Manchester.
The BBC's Fiona Trott said the men were thought to have been filming and were all Bangladeshi.
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit is leading the investigation.
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| Quake42 Warrior Princess
Great Old One Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Total posts: 5310 Location: Over Silbury Hill, through the Solar field Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 04-05-2011 10:00 Post subject: |
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Aldwych and southern end of the Strand were cordoned off this morning, supposedly because of a suspect package/vehicle (reports vary) outside Temple Tube station.
Tube station closures are not unusual, but what was surprising was the sheer number of police, paramedics and firefighters in attendance.
People are very jittery... |
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