Doubtful.but everyone wants to be #1! UK happens to be one of the the easiest targets because of it's policy of offering refuge to terrorists and its cluelessness about Islamic terrorism.
Al-Qaeda is NOT your father's IRA. Bruce BBC NEWS UK number one al Qaeda target Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC. Security sources say the situation has never been so grim, said BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore. They believe the network is now operating a cell structure in the UK - like the IRA did - and sees the 7 July bomb attacks "as just the beginning". Each cell has a leader, a quartermaster dealing with weapons, and volunteers. University worry According to our correspondent, each cell works on separate, different plots, with masterminds controlling several different cells. Training is taking place in the UK and Pakistan. It was thought that five years ago al-Qaeda was a number of "loosely-connected organisations" with common aims, but it is now more organised, she said. It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack Crispin Black Security analyst Security officials are concerned the group is targeting universities and the community, and are "less worried" about mosques, she added. However, intelligence analyst Crispin Black said another attack in the UK "was not inevitable", citing the UK's "considerable successes against the IRA". He said the security services had a good idea about who they were dealing with, saying: "We still have that expertise and training present within our military forces and intelligence." "It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack. We have some pretty good clues and information on where we should be looking," he added. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/6065460.stm Published: 2006/10/19 10:28:23 GMT C BBC MMVI [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
