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Posted: 20-05-2010 11:57 Post subject:

Now look! This is a good example of a suspect!

Not someone who just happens to be brown.

Posted: 10-01-2011 16:31 Post subject:

Maybe it's the wrong sort of terror, not the fashionable kind. But, in the Basque Country, ETA have just called a permanent ceasefire.

Posted: 10-01-2011 22:10 Post subject:

Im not sure whether to be relieved or dissapointed.

Im also not sure as the best way to run a revolution.

Posted: 12-01-2011 10:45 Post subject:

Reports of lethal and destructive, false flag operation, by extremist, Hindu nationalists, intended to pin the blame on Muslim radicals for a bombing campaign, from India.

Posted: 19-03-2011 20:39 Post subject:

Posted: 19-03-2011 22:15 Post subject:

There's an opportunity here to use Health and Safety legislation to stop such an obviously boneheaded move. Removing the emergency oxygen supply in the toilets poses a risk to the life of their passengers, should there be a problem.

Posted: 19-03-2011 22:43 Post subject:

Posted: 24-05-2011 19:33 Post subject:

Transport police get green light to carry guns on trains and Tubes in response to 'terrorism threat'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:32 PM on 24th May 2011

Armed teams of British Transport Police are to patrol the railways and London Underground to counter the terrorist threat - currently at its second highest level.
Until now BTP officers have not carried weapons but today Transport Secretary Philip Hammond announced that the force would have its own armed capability.
He said armed BTP officers would be 'deployed as appropriate in response to the terrorism threat level at any given time'.

Armed police from other forces sometimes patrol stations and trains and the current threat level is severe meaning an attack is 'highly likely'
Today, in a Commons statement, Mr Hammond said that by training BTP officers to carry out armed patrolling of the rail network it 'equipped them with a capability already available to other forces'.
He added that it would not be a daily event to see armed officers at stations and they would be deployed 'according to operational need'.
Mr Hammond said: The Government has been considering the resilience of the overall police armed capability and has concluded that it would be beneficial to enhance this by providing the BTP with an armed capability of its own.
'The timing of this is not as a result of any specific threat: it is a sensible and pragmatic approach to ensuring that our police forces have the right resources to be able to respond as and when needed to protect the public.'

He went on: 'We will continue to work with the BTP and others to assess the use of this capability and its effectiveness and impact.
'I would like to reassure Parliament that this is a measured and proportionate approach to supporting the BTP in maintaining public safety on the railway.'

The force' Chief Constable Andy Trotter said: 'I welcome the decision for BTP to have armed officers at mainline stations during times of heightened threat of terrorist attack.
'BTP officers have an excellent working knowledge of the railway which will enable them to respond quickly to any incidents.'

The 7/7 attacks on the Underground in 2005 highlighted the vulnerability of an 'open' system such as the Tube, which, because of its nature, cannot become a 'closed' system like an airport, where passengers can be thoroughly security-checked before passing airside.

In March 2004, nearly 200 people were killed in terrorist attacks on commuter trains in Madrid, while Mumbai's railway stations were among targets attacked in a November 2008 outrage.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390429/BTP-officers-green-light-carry-guns-trains-response-terrorism-threat.html#ixzz1NIPv337D

Posted: 03-06-2011 08:37 Post subject:

MI6 attacks al-Qaeda in 'Operation Cupcake'
British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes. rofl

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
7:16PM BST 02 Jun 2011

The cyber-warfare operation was launched by MI6 and GCHQ in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular to recruit “lone-wolf” terrorists with a new English-language magazine, the Daily Telegraph understands.

When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” by “The AQ Chef” they were greeted with garbled computer code.
The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.

Written by Dulcy Israel and produced by Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson, Ohio, it said “the little cupcake is big again” adding: “Self-contained and satisfying, it summons memories of childhood even as it's updated for today’s sweet-toothed hipsters.”

It included a recipe for the Mojito Cupcake – “made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream”- and the Rocky Road Cupcake – “warning: sugar rush ahead!” Cool

By contrast, the original magazine featured a recipe showing how to make a lethal pipe bomb using sugar, match heads and a miniature lightbulb, attached to a timer.

The cyber attack also removed articles by Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and a piece called “What to expect in Jihad.”

British and US intelligence planned separate attacks after learning that the magazine was about to be issued in June last year.
They have both developed a variety of cyber-weapons such as computer viruses, to use against both enemy states and terrorists.

A Pentagon operation, backed by Gen Keith Alexander, the head of US Cyber Command, was blocked by the CIA which argued that it would expose sources and methods and disrupt an important source of intelligence, according to a report in America.
However the Daily Telegraph understands an operation was launched from Britain instead.

Al-Qaeda was able to reissue the magazine two weeks later and has gone on to produce four further editions but one source said British intelligence was continuing to target online outlets publishing the magazine because it is viewed as such a powerful propaganda tool.

The magazine is produced by the radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, one of the leaders of AQAP who has lived in Britain and the US, and his associate Samir Khan from North Carolina.
Both men who are thought to be in Yemen, have associated with radicals connected to Rajib Karim, a British resident jailed for 30 years in March for plotting to smuggle a bomb onto a trans-Atlantic aircraft.

At the time Inspire was launched, US government officials said “the packaging of this magazine may be slick, but the contents are as vile as the authors.”
Bruce Reidel, a former CIA analyst said it was “clearly intended for the aspiring jihadist in the US or UK who may be the next Fort Hood murderer or Times Square bomber.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8553366/MI6-attacks-al-Qaeda-in-Operation-Cupcake.html

Posted: 03-06-2011 08:50 Post subject:

Propaganda, or you wouldn't be reading about it.
It's in the Telegraph to boot...

Posted: 03-06-2011 09:01 Post subject:

Posted: 03-06-2011 09:43 Post subject:

Posted: 03-06-2011 09:57 Post subject:

Anyhow, who makes bombs in their mums kitchen anymore?

Too risky. If you blow it up, she will get very cross.

Posted: 03-06-2011 10:03 Post subject:

'Propaganda' has such negative connotations nowadays that some people might assume it's something untrue, or is 'made up' information.

But it can of course be perfectly true, even if used to futher a political or national viewpoint (which would hardly be a novelty!).

Whatever, this 'propaganda' gave me a laugh. Very Happy

Posted: 03-06-2011 10:04 Post subject: