Thread: Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK

Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK

Prime minister says 60,000 civilians have been trained to deal with terrorist incidents

Matthew Weaver guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 22 March 2009 11.51 GMT

Gordon Brown today warned that al-Qaida remains the biggest security threat to the UK, as he revealed that tens of thousands of civilians have been trained to deal with terrorist attacks as part of a new strategy to combat extremists.

Writing in the Observer, the prime minister previewed what he said was a "world-leading" counter-terrorist framework to be published on Tuesday. The immediate threat of terrorist attack justified a "relentless pursuit of terrorists and disruption of their plots".

"We should be under no illusion that the biggest security threat to our country and other countries is the murderous agents of hate that work under the banner of al-Qaida," he said.

Some 60,000 civilians, including shop managers and council workers, have been trained to cope with the threat.

"Today, not only the police and security and intelligence officers and our armed forces, but also the emergency services, local councils, businesses and community groups are involved in state-of-the-art civil contingency planning," Brown said.

"Tens of thousands of men and women throughout Britain – from security guards to store managers – have now been trained and equipped to deal with an incident and know what to watch for as people go about their daily business in crowded places such as stations, airports, shopping centres and sports grounds."

The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said the strategy, called Contest Two, would be more open than past counter-terrorism efforts .

She told BBC One's Politics Show: "What we're completely clear about is that if we're going to address the threat from terrorism, we need to do that alongside the 60,000 people that we're now training up to respond to a terrorist threat, in everywhere from our shopping centres to our hotels. This is no longer something you can do behind closed doors and in secret."

The paper will update the Contest strategy developed by the Home Office in 2003, which was later detailed in the Countering International Terrorism document released in 2006. It will take account of the way the terror threat has changed and how authorities are learning lessons from recent events, including the Mumbai attacks.

By 2011, Britain will be spending £3.5bn a year on counter-terrorism, Brown said. The imprisonment of 80 terrorists in Britain in the last two years was hitting the morale of al-Qaida. Part of the new strategy would address the longer-term causes of terrorism by "understanding what leads people to become radicalised, so we can stop the process".

Brown said that more than two-thirds of the plots threatening the UK are linked to Pakistan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... m-al-qaida

Your problems aren't al-Qaida it's all those radical Muslims you let come in.
Do you have Shria Law in Britian yet?

Although I have several as friends I think that Britain may have admitted too many Islamic immigrants to integrate successfully.

WA, from what I read was that Britain was allowing Sharia law to take place of British law if the plaintiff requested it. Nice, so that any female can be beheaded or stoned to death under that court system. How can these people assimilate when they have their own entire society in that country, and a neighborhood in London will be the site of the largest mosque in the world.
Meanwhile, we are putting up with Saudi-sponsored Islamic schools (one in Virginia) which may be teaching kids not to assimilate, but to take over. Apparently the adhere to the Wahabbist creed, which is one of the most radical fundamentalist versions of Islam. Sunni and Shi'a have nothing on the Wahabbists.

vortex

WA, from what I read was that Britain was allowing Sharia law to take place of British law if the plaintiff requested it. Nice, so that any female can be beheaded or stoned to death under that court system. How can these people assimilate when they have their own entire society in that country, and a neighborhood in London will be the site of the largest mosque in the world.

Is that where that insane, old Catholic priest, wanted to incorporate it?
Give 'em an inch. Did you catch this on another post of mine? www.islamicfinder.org

Plus watch this video, you will freak!
After the first 2 minute the guy shuts up and introduces this woman. See about 10 1/2 minutes in especially! She will hold your interest.....

It's a very interesting movie and will keep you glued to the story she tells.

This is our future... as we welcome them and the rest come across our borders illegally.


The Christian lady lived in Beirut!! She lived the fundamentalist Muslim experience. It's not pretty.

Please, please, pleas, watch at least 5 minutes to see the plan for us...

http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/ ... 92706a.wvx


This will effect everyone in the near future. This is the most disturbing video I've ever seen. It is long but all our families need to watch it.

Vortex Britain is allowing Sharia in Civil cases not Capital Criminal cases.

Originally Posted by Richard

Vortex Britain is allowing Sharia in Civil cases not Capital Criminal cases.

Any of it is too much! You don't go to a country and expect to turn it into your country. You live by the host country's rules or leave... The radical Muslims have plans to take over most countries. I believe we will see an uprise here in the states, within Obama first (and last) term.
Our country will die from political correctness....