Terror alert raised

mattheman · 24 Jan 2010 at 00:55

dangerstat said:
Fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon.[80] Mohamed Atta, also from Egypt, was the ringleader of the 19 hijackers.[81] According to Jerrold Post, a professor of psychology at George Washington University and former CIA officer, the hijackers were well-educated, mature adults, whose belief systems were fully formed.

From Wiki

Being educated doeent mean being clever all round,if they knew any better they would have just planted bomb to planet more another day, killing yourself is a waste.

chiLLZ · 24 Jan 2010 at 01:39

government is using the terrorism problem to terrorise us tbh: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476318.stm

I am no conspiracy theorist but so many things are happening because of these laws that will take up police time and divert recorces onto wild goose chaces. What is terrorism anyway? why is it different to a group of people planning to blow something or someone up as a crime that you can be arrested and charged for. you would be forgiven for thinking that the government want people to spy on eachother and create a state of suspicion. I would be the first to report any threat but this fixation with controll is unhealthy.

Von Smallhausen · 24 Jan 2010 at 02:01

chiLLZ said:
government is using the terrorism problem to terrorise us tbh: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476318.stm

No they are not.

They have brought sec 44 into law which was not meant to be abused but which is. That is the problem and urgent clarification and training issues need to addressed. While an arbitrary law, sec 44 needs to have an intelligence led approach alongside.

am no conspiracy theorist but so many things are happening because of these laws that will take up police time and divert recorces onto wild goose chaces. What is terrorism anyway? why is it different to a group of people planning to blow something or someone up as a crime that you can be arrested and charged for. you would be forgiven for thinking that the government want people to spy on eachother and create a state of suspicion. I would be the first to report any threat but this fixation with controll is unhealthy.

While the UK's fporeign policy may leave a lot to be desired, there is no spy or suspicion element to terrorism.

If you saw a house over the street being burgled while the owners were away, you would phone it in would you not ?

If you saw someone breaking into a car then you would phone it in. Terrorism is no different with regards to suspicicous behaviour but the issue of innocent tourists being stopped under sec 44 for photographing Westminster etc needs to be addressed.

chiLLZ · 24 Jan 2010 at 02:48

ok that makes a lot of sense about the training.

ripperOFflesh · 24 Jan 2010 at 10:02

Al Jazeera says it has new audio of Osama bin Laden in which he claims responsibility for the failed US plane attack on Christmas Day,must have been the threat phew had me sh........ myself there

Cosimo · 24 Jan 2010 at 13:08

So this is wha the aert is about:

FEARS that Islamist terrorists plan to hijack an Indian passenger jet and crash it into a British city helped to prompt this weekend’s heightened terror alert.

MI5 was told by the Indian authorities early last week about a suspected plot by militants linked to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan to hijack an Air India or Indian Airlines flight from Mumbai or Delhi.

The warning, which came after the capture of a suspected Islamic leader, was contained in a detailed “threat assessment” sent to MI5 by the Indian Intelligence Bureau. It did not state that Britain was a specific target. But police security sources said it had raised fears in London that a British city might be attacked.

Source

xJcBx · 24 Jan 2010 at 13:14

I knew this would be a bad idea >> http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18104999

Tefal said:
If you all formed a group and appointed a spokesman you could hold the government to ransom

Thanks Tefal.

Raymond Lin · 24 Jan 2010 at 13:16

Means nothing, we all still have to go to work, live our lives.

[TW]Fox · 24 Jan 2010 at 14:12

ac1d1ty said:
Bit hard to compare civilians to the RUC

I wasn't comparing? I simply provided figures to show that the IRA were not nice terrorists.

Morgoth · 24 Jan 2010 at 14:16

[TW]Fox;15802477 said:
That didn't stop them killing 644 British civilians and 272 members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary did it?

The amount of clueless rubbish in this thread is sickening. The IRA were not a bunch of loveable fluffy Irish rougues.

Aha, I wasn't saying that didn't make them any less of a criminal. It was actually a paraphrase of a Stewart Lee stand up joke.