Terror threat 'worst since 9/11' >From correspondents in London February 25, 2007 10:56pm Article from: Reuters MORE than 2000 home-grown al-Qaeda terrorists are plotting suicide attacks in the UK, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing a secret intelligence document. The security threat is at its highest level since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US and the planning of attacks against British targets will increase further in 2007, the "Extremist Threat Assessment" document said, according to the newspaper. "The scale of al-Qaeda's ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we had previously judged," the Sunday Telegraph reported the document said. Britain suffered its worst peacetime attack in July 2005 when four British Islamists blew themselves up on London's transport network, killing 52 commuters and wounding hundreds. The report said Afghanistan, where more British troops are expected to be sent shortly, was the top location for terrorists planning jihad or holy struggle against the West. It said al-Qaeda was "resilient and effective" in Iraq while its operating environment and financial position in Pakistan had improved. A spokesman for Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit said: "The threat is real and genuine as events of recent months and years have demonstrated." He declined to comment specifically on the report. A spokeswoman for the Home Office said the department did not comment on leaked reports. "The threat level is as it was," she said. Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of intelligence agency MI5, said in November that Muslim extremists were plotting at least 30 major terrorist attacks in Britain and the threats might involve chemical and nuclear devices. She said young British Muslims were being groomed to become suicide bombers and her agents were tracking some 1600 suspects, most of whom were British-born and linked to al Qaeda in Pakistan. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/4It09A/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- 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/
