Terror alert raised

sammo62 said:
Glad Im not flying to America soon, oh wait I am.

Outside of London, does a terror threat even mean anything to anyone? Lets be honest they arent going to bomb Norwich etc are they?
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Well there's Manchester, the city to be victim to the biggest bomb during peace time so yeah there's a few major cities it could affect.
 
You have to keep the terror alert rollin' rollin' rollin.

How are you gonna keep up the charade of identity cards...airport scanners...iraq war and afghanistan war.....
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476238.stm

The new alert level means a terrorist attack is considered "highly likely". It had stood at substantial since July.

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Mr Johnson stressed there was no intelligence to suggest a terrorist attack was imminent.
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Blatantly just make these things up as we go along. Eventually we'll perpetually be on severe.

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okay theres another level

The UK had not reached the highest threat level of "critical", which would mean an attack was imminent.
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In a similar move the French government has also raised their threat level from "Run" to "Hide". There are only two higher levels in the French threat system, "Surrender" and "Collaborate".

The old ones are the best! :)
 
Dolph said:
Incoming FUD... What bad thing are the goverment trying to distract us from this time?
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The economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, unemployment, education, expenses.... Blah, blah, blah... You of all people shouldn't even have to ask, surely? :p
 
UK THREAT LEVEL SYSTEM:

Low - attack is unlikely
Moderate - attack is possible, but not likely
Substantial - attack is a strong possibility
Severe - attack is highly likely
Critical - attack is expected imminently
Don't panic - attack probably won't happen after all
WTF!? - attack is happening
Soz - attack happened where we didn't expect it, again
Oops - attack kills 17 people, at least 1 Briton
Brown - attack sparks Government rethink on security and intelligence policies, after think tank is consulted following a review.
 
dbappa said:
Keep that fear boiling over. What does this mean for the avaerage UK citizen?

[tinfoil mode] All great timing this, more skeletons creeping out of the governments role in the lead up to the war especially now Brown will be at the inquiry. Possible distraction? [/tinfoil mode]
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Was thinking along the same lines.. election coming up.. quick up the level! People will think they are all good and protecting us when the opposite is happening.
 
To play devil's advocate, we don't know what intelligence lands on the Home Secretary's desk which is gleaned by the likes if the Security Service, SIS, CIA and so on that can have an affect on the threat level.

To do it purely as a political score is a huge risk as it could spectacularly backfire.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
To play devil's advocate, we don't know what intelligence lands on the Home Secretary's desk which is gleaned by the likes if the Security Service, SIS, CIA and so on that can have an affect on the threat level.

To do it purely as a political score is a huge risk as it could spectacularly backfire.
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Do you really think it can do any harm if it is wrong.

they're in the cart already, one last gamble won't hurt.

the labour party are looking at a coallition gov at best at the moment.;)
 
Von Smallhausen said:
To play devil's advocate, we don't know what intelligence lands on the Home Secretary's desk which is gleaned by the likes if the Security Service, SIS, CIA and so on that can have an affect on the threat level.

To do it purely as a political score is a huge risk as it could spectacularly backfire.
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Can we really trust a party that believed that September 11th 2001 was 'a good day to bury bad news'?

Or Hiding bad news on expenses behind other announcements?

Not forgetting this is the party that gave us the dodgy dossier.

I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw John Prescott and his two jags...
 
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