London Terror Plot UPDATE: IEDs Coming to a Town Near You - The New Domestic Threat
Posted by StormWarning on 29 Jun 2007 at 08:18 am | Tagged as: Current Affairs, Domestic Terrorism, International Issues, Iraq, National Security, Opinions
UPDATE: This now appears to be a welcoming message to new Prime Minister Gordon Brown from “the terrorists.” It is also now (Friday morning, 6/29, around 10am) being reported that an open-top bus, and a second car (supposedly the “get-away”) in London has been involved in this apparently expanding situation. An alert for Americans abroad is now being sounded to be aware of their surrounding. Also note that I hear that London, a city of 7 million people, has one surveillance camera for every 14 people. Think of that the next time you become worried about “personal rights” versus safety against terrorism. More to come…[the location was outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in the Haymarket area near Piccadilly Circus].If you don’t think that its possible, think again! Its surprising how long it has taken to export the “insurgents’ friend,” the improvised explosive device, from Iraq to the West. A “massive” terror attacked was foiled in London today. MI5 going to investigate possible connections between the incident and at least two similar foiled plots - including a planned attack on a West End nightclub in 2004 and a thwarted attempt to use limousines packed with gas canisters to attack targets in London and New York.
A British security official told The Associated Press that the car was packed with explosives, gas canisters, nuts and bolts and would have caused “significant damage.” He said there were similarities between the device and vehicle bombs used by insurgents in Iraq.
So the use of IEDs in Britain and the United States…its not really a new threat, but IMO, the likelihood of increased attempts is well, increasing. The London attack seems to have been stopped when a witness saw someone drive a car into garbage cans and then flee the scene. A propane tank was seen in the back seat of the car, and nails seen strewn throughout the car.
According to a statement by new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the incident was a reminder that Britain faces “a serious and continuous threat” and the “need to be alert.”
The apparent use of gas cylinders recalled a terror plot allegedly thwarted in 2004 when Dhiren Barot, a British Muslim, was said to have been planning to use limousines packed with gas cylinders to blow up buildings.
More on Dhiren Barot.
All there is right now is the AP report and derivatives. Maybe more later as the story unfolds. A few things are clear, though:
- “where there is a will there is a way.”
- terror strategies from Iraq have been exported
- the terrorist threat is not abating
We stand beyond the dawn on a new era. Terror, Islamic terror and its tactics, has already come to the West.
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Current Affairs, Domestic Terrorism, International Issues, Iraq, National Security, Opinions
The Failed London Terrorist Attack Could Happen Here!
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This is from a new free online book, “The Swiss Preserve Solution” & how the over reaction dramatically curtails personal, financial, religious and civil liberties in the United States.
I have no doubt that it could happen here, and that the terrorists would love to start this kind of attacks here in the US. Nice Article.
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Ron, I don’t believe that we are “overreacting” at all to what is the potential for another terrorist attack in this country. The question that could be valid is whether a London style bomb is what we face, or if its a cyber attack.
I can see why sitting from your perspective that the threat is less than it is from my vantage point.
Debbie, I see no reason at all why a few “homegrown” terrorists couldn’t do what the “boys from Birmingham” tried today in the UK. The method or tool isn’t all that different from what Eric Rudolph did either.