Good news: UK commandos preparing for British Beslan
posted at 10:15 pm on February 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
Send to a Friend |
Share on Facebook | printer-friendly
The word’s come down from AQ management to its blue collars in Britain: start cutting off heads.
Islamic terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week.
The “strategic” assassination instruction was issued by Al-Qaeda’s leaders in Pakistan and Iraq to dozens of their followers in this country. It was uncovered by MI5 last autumn, senior security sources say…
The revelation explains the recent deployment of a permanent SAS unit to London. The unit has been placed on 24-hour standby to respond to a terrorist attack in the capital.
SAS is Britain’s special forces. And it’s not just beheadings for which they’re on standby:
The intelligence services fear that Britain could be subject to a Beslan-style siege, with multiple hostages forced to plead for their lives on camera.
Whitehall sources have said that the threat is considered so credible that MI5, the police and the SAS have conducted at least two mock counter-terrorism exercises to work out how to deal with such an eventuality.
The last exercise, shortly before Christmas, took place at an RAF base near Chester. Five police forces were involved in an operation that envisaged an international conference being stormed by terrorists, who then held a group of children hostage in a creche wired with explosives.
The Times of London has new details about the alleged cell that was pinched earlier this week; apparently the cops moved in after one of the suspects was spotted buying a video camera. More than one of them has been linked to a mosque in Birmingham which, by the admission of one of its own officials, is a center for Tablighi Jamaat — a group linked to two of the London bombers and regarded by western intel as a “conveyor belt to Al Qaeda.” Can you guess which group is spearheading the drive to build that mega-mosque in the east end that would seat up to 70,000 Muslims? Oh hells yeah.
All in all, says the Telegraph, MI5 has disrupted 12 separate terrorist plots in the past year and a half — twice as many as was previously thought before, for an average of one every six weeks. Total arrests made in the heretofore undisclosed plots: zero.
The Telegraph’s also got tasty heart-ache fodder tonight in a story about the Joint Support Group, a team of British military superspies that cut its teeth turning IRA agents into British informants in ulster and is now busy reprogramming jihadis in Baghdad. I’m a wee bit suspicious that we’re only first hearing about them now, as Blair considers withdrawing part of the country’s forces from Basra, but it’s a good read even if it’s not technically, you know, true.
Working alongside the Special Air Service and the American Delta Force as part of the Baghdad-based counter-terrorist unit known as Task Force Black, they have supplied intelligence that has saved hundreds of lives and resulted in some of the most notable successes against the myriad terror groups fighting in Iraq. Only last week, intelligence from the JSG is understood to have led to a series of successful operations against Sunni militia groups in southern Baghdad…
The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq up until his death in June last year, followed intelligence obtained by the JSG, as did the rescue of the kidnapped peace campaigner, Norman Kember…
Candidates who get through pre-selection then spend the next four months at the Intelligence Corps headquarters at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, being taught driving and close-quarter battle skills - operators must be capable of using a wide variety of weapons but must be expert shots with a pistol…
With so many Iraqis entering the zone every day, those who want to pass on information can do so with a certain amount of anonymity. But a risk still remains. All potential agents are warned that anyone suspected of being a coalition spy will be tortured before being murdered. If he is married, his wife will be gang-raped in front of their children, who will in all probability also be murdered, they are told.
Sixty years ago, there’d already have been a movie made about them with Laurence Olivier in the starring role.
Exit question: What’ll destroy the UK first — terrorism, bird flu, Iranian nukes, or those dreadful melting glaciers?
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
The food.
shaken on February 3, 2007 at 10:32 PM
The destruction of the UK will come about by having to replace the revered pint with its metric equivalent.
flipflop on February 3, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Allahpundit, an upbeat note to end the night on…grrrr!
I just had to delete my first thoughts after the mentioning of Beslan. Several times. Just to get it off my chest now, before a few more beers, I knew nothing of Islam on September 10th, 2001, I learned and disliked what I saw about Islam on and after September 11th, 2001. Beslan etched in stone every negative thought I had about Islam. Don’t try to preach to me about the religion of peace now.
That mildly helped.
OT - Allahpundit, I love war games and simulations, have some time to kill and am willing to spring for the $20. Want a game review free?
Canadian Infidel on February 3, 2007 at 10:45 PM
I guess I already *have* missed my window to visit England. :P
Anwyn on February 3, 2007 at 10:55 PM
Drudge is pointing to a Times of London article claiming that an Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated by the Mossad.
The possible combinations of who did what to whom, are beyond imagination, but the bottom line is, most likely an escalation by Iran.
Then there are the never ending headlines of yet another cease fire in the fighting for Gaza. It is becoming almost laughable.
rockhauler on February 3, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Forgive me, but I’m seeing a spin off . . 24 London. Hey, CSI can have their other cities!
The thought is the fault of whoever wrote that paragraph.
But on a serious note, why are they going to wait until AFTER something like this happens before doing something?
MirCat on February 3, 2007 at 11:21 PM
That last question is retorical of course. I did have an arrow pointing to it say int retorical, but wordpress strips certain punctuations as code.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 3, 2007 at 11:22 PM
Scary
Catie96706 on February 3, 2007 at 11:25 PM
…Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia…
Neo on February 3, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Anyone know if they are doing anything like this in the USA? Australia?
CrazyFool on February 4, 2007 at 12:09 AM
1)Bangers & Mash
2) Melting glaciers
3) Iranian nukes
4) David Beckham
Oh wait! Beckham is over here now. We’re doomed!
TwinkietheKid on February 4, 2007 at 12:22 AM
IIRC, MS-13 tried to pull a Beslan a year after it happened in either San Diego or Los Angeles. I’m trying to find a link, but Google isn’t cooperating. Maybe I’m just imagining things because I’m crazy paranoid.
Savage on February 4, 2007 at 12:59 AM
Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnn………….
Good thing we are about to “re-deploy”, “pull-out”, “come up short”, “grab defeat from the jaws of vicotry”, “listen to Jane Fonda, Bill Mahr, Keith Ollberman, Rosie, Hillary, the Swimmer, the Flipper, Denise the Menace, Al “the sky is falling” Gore, the MSM………”, “it’s all Bush’s fault:…”
Yes, the Left’s plan is working perfectly, our enemies are retreating, we are safe, nothing to see here, sheeple, go about your business, nothing to see, go to diversity sensetivty training, if someone comes at you with a knife to cut your head off, just remember it’s your fault…..
OBEY, Allah Akbhar, you are a “Kaffar”, how dare you believe in Christ???? Are you kidding, you should have been turned into embryotic stem cell research in the first place……
PinkyBigglesworth on February 4, 2007 at 1:05 AM
The intelligence info blogs were warning that raiding the compound tactic was going to be the next wave. In Saudi Arabia, terrorists forced their way into the foreign compound and had control of the place. Beslan same. Now, I cringe when I see the fences that have been put up around American schools - with no security to keep the wrong kind of people out. Once they get in, they have the tactical advantage - and hostages have a harder time fleeing - they become caged inside walled or fenced compounds. Not good at all. The schools are handling this all the wrong way. Keep em out and you win, once they get inside, it’s mayhem.
naliaka on February 4, 2007 at 1:17 AM
European elitism, PC, multi-culti, anti-Americanism and the lack of Churchillean cojones, or as Ms Albright would say
Mr. Blair will be justified by history, in direct proportion to his current reviling.
Entelechy on February 4, 2007 at 1:40 AM
Nope, it’ll be the food. First poster nailed it.
Scotsman on February 4, 2007 at 3:39 AM
stupidity will kill off Britain… and then the glaciers will melt and drown the rotting corpses…
retired on February 4, 2007 at 7:50 AM
They have got to be kidding at the Guardian. They describe Tabligi Jamad as an evangelical islamic group and they go on to say that Fundamentalist Christians are opposing the building of the mosque.
Subliminally turning the villains into the good guys and the good guys into the villains. When confronted they will claim it’s a typo.
Aylios on February 4, 2007 at 8:29 AM
If nothing in your list destroys Britain, this almost certainly will.
SWLiP on February 4, 2007 at 9:14 AM
How far will England go with political correctness? This is so insane it’s almost beyond belief. Instead of dealing with the problem as one should, rounding up every single muslim that that has been proven to instigate or preach jihad against the west and booting their evil asses out, these fools bring in SAS.
Idiots … Britain is infected. Europe is infected. The US is infected. Unless the body casts the infection out … death will surely result. The muslim plan is working so well the muslims can hardly believe it themselves.
Plan of Action:
1) immigrate in massive numbers to every western nation.
2) Recruit, then wage jihad against the host nation
3) when they complain or attempt to thwart the jihad, tell them you’re “offended” and desire everyone cater to your culture and also press for compensation
4) use silly western laws that were designed for civilized people against the infidels themselves
5) laugh in their faces as often as possible and tell them point blank you’re going to take over their country, convert it to islamic law and kill anyone who resists
6) if they protest, tell them they’re being culturally insensitive, racist and bigoted. This will cause them to apologize profusely and offer Brits to behead as compensation for offending you.
darwin on February 4, 2007 at 9:37 AM
You’re right darwin. It’s all in the Koran. Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/11. September 11th was the lesson and Belsan was just the review. At least we have awakened to the sad facts of Islam.
If it were only a political movement it would be dismissed as anti-civilization, anti-freedom, and anti-women, among other things. However, we in the West give it a pass because it’s a religion. We take a hands-off approach because it’s someone’s “faith.” Well, if your “faith” includes killing or enslaving me just because I don’t worship the moon god of Arabia then all bets are off. Your religion is a political movement and thus not appropriated the normal grace of a mere religious belief.
I pray for their redemption, but Islam has proven to be a horribly destructive force in the history of mankind. We can’t even bring ourselves to identify the enemy by name. We have labeled this war, a war against a technique of war. When will the madness stop? When it’s too late for life as we know it I fear.
(I’m sorry if this is over the top, but this blog is a safe place to utter “dangerous” ideas.)
Mojave Mark on February 4, 2007 at 10:01 AM
Don’t let jummy, pablo, and the rest of the pollyanna thinkers hear you say that.
csdeven on February 4, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Exit question answer. None of the above. PC will destroy us all.
csdeven on February 4, 2007 at 10:24 AM
The John Kerry approach to terrorism. Wait til it happens then makes arrests. On top of that, Blair outdoes Stanley Baldwin and all but dismantles the Royal Navy in the middle of a war. When you don’t have good leaders its entirely possible to lose a war to a bunch of 7th century throwbacks.
aengus on February 4, 2007 at 11:03 AM
The Dental plan.
Viper1 on February 4, 2007 at 11:25 AM
All of the above. The terrorist Iranian nuclear melting ice cap bird flu will be the end of us all.
One Angry Christian on February 4, 2007 at 11:28 AM
If anyone has to have their heads removed it ought to be George Galloway and Red Ken Livingstone.
Hilts on February 5, 2007 at 9:09 AM
Yeah….BOY…GLOBAL WARMING is this girl’s number one priority. Right after I saw the head off some SEWER RATS.
Who says women can’t be blood thirsty? Mess with children and THIS MAMA will not be polite about inflicting as much pain as humanly possible to any sewer rat.
seejanemom on February 5, 2007 at 11:20 AM
I see the disadvantage of having a mosque full of 70,000 Muslims assembled in London, yet I see an advantage, too.
Tantor on February 5, 2007 at 6:31 PM