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British Police Warn of Christmas Terror Threat LONDON, Dec. 23--Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the threat of a terror attack in Britain is ever present and growing, and that police were being extremely vigilant during the Christmas holidays, AP reported. Britain's top police officer said the threat posed by Al-Qaeda terrorists represented the gravest to the country since World War II and was of an "unparalleled nature and growing." "The threat of another terrorist attempt is ever present," Blair said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "Christmas is a period when that might happen. We have no specific intelligence to do (with) that," he said. He said Al-Qaeda posed a greater threat than the Irish Republican Army's 1970-1997 failed campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom and into the Republic of Ireland, which killed 1,775 people. The IRA usually did not aim to cause mass atrocities, did not want to die, gave warnings and was "heavily penetrated" by British intelligence agents, Blair said. "None of those four apply with Al-Qaeda and its affiliates," he said. "It took 20 years to penetrate the IRA and I have no doubt that the intelligence services will be attempting that now, but it is a more difficult and a much more recent phenomenon," he said. Home Secretary John Reid said on Dec. 10 that it was highly likely that terrorists would attempt an attack over the holiday period. Last month, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller --who heads MI5, Britain's domestic spy service--said authorities were tracking almost 30 terrorist plots involving 1,600 suspects and that her agency had foiled five major plots since the July 2005 transit bomb attacks in London, which killed 52 commuters and the four bombers. +++ -------------------------- 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/
