Islamists ‘fundraising and training’ in Britain
Sydney Herald
Islamist extremists are highly active in radicalising and training Muslim men in Britain as well as raising funds and supporting fellow extremists overseas.
Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, citing a secret intelligence document, said al-Qaeda sympathisers are sending extremists in Pakistan hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash to fund attacks against Western democracies.
“Security Service and police investigations continue to detect high levels of operational activity by UK-based Islamist extremist networks,” according to the document cited by the newspaper.
“Extremists are engaged in fundraising, radicalisation, and training and in providing support to fellow extremists overseas,” it said.
“The purpose of a proportion of this clandestine activity is unclear. The high levels of activity are consistent with the judgment that an attack in the UK is highly likely,” it added.
The newspaper quoted government sources as saying that Britain is facing a home-grown threat of about 30 plots from 200 separate networks involving about 1,600 suspects.
“The threat facing the UK is very, very high and MI5 (domestic intelligence) and other covert agencies involved in the security of this country are working flat-out. There is no spare capacity in the system,” a security source told the newspaper.
It said the secret document was distributed to the Counter Terrorist Command (SO15), the Cabinet Office and the Home Office.
It reveals that government buildings, Ministry of Defence establishments and tourist sites like the London Eye, the world’s tallest observation wheel, on the River Thames, are at “severe” risk of terrorist attacks, it added.
Prayer leaders and other Muslim “opinion formers” will be given lessons in civil leadership under a new multi-million-pound government plan to fight extremism in Britain, the newspaper added.
As part of the plan, which will be announced this week, pupils from mainly Muslim schools will be paired with those from mainly white schools to engage in joint projects like music and drama.
Britain has been on edge since four Islamist suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 London commuters when they set off bombs on three Underground trains and a bus on July 7, 2005, the first such attack in Europe.
Wild Thing’s comment………
Iran’s seizure of 15 British sailors and the UK’s lame response will certainly embolden the homegrown Jihadists. Nothing succeeds like success.
WHAT in the Bloody-Hell IS BRITAIN doing!!!! REMEMBER JULY 7th 2005!!!”
The London Underground bombings….52 Britains died at the hands of homegrown Islamist terrorists. Never forget for them has become, who cares.
Worse than Jimmy Carter. We have the biggest misfit of all time on a whirlwind mission to collaborate with our enemies. Does this bitch think that Syria is San Francisco and that Assad is her newest buddy. While the White House refuses direct talks with Damascus, because Syrian leaders have failed promises too many times in the past, this idiot is going there to undermine the the will of the nation and the president. Look at who Pelosi’s delegation consists of; Reps. Henry Waxman and Tom Lantos of California, Louise Slaughter of New York, Nick Rahall of West Virginia, and Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim to serve in Congress and one RINO, David Hobson of Ohio. Will somebody just shoot that treacherous bitch. I’d trade the whole sorry delegation for one British Sailor, at least they follow orders. It’s this very behavior by our congress that has emboldened the enemy to the point they think they can pull a stunt like this with impunity, maybe we’ll get lucky and Syria will take them hostage.
Britain and America need to close down the moslem schools. It won’t happen of course. Maybe when the active war on American soil starts, measures will take place to crimp the moslems’ excess freedom. It is excess when we have to give up some of our freedom so they won’t be “offended”. Their freedom is excess when they openly announce their intent to take us over and destroy us.
Jack, those names in that list give me the creeps. I will never forget the slimy guy Lantos when Clinton was President and Lantos was so horrible on the commitee he was on to investiagate Clinton he was there to fight it every step of the way. He was vile.
Tom, that’s is something I just don’t understand. We are abloe to find out a certain about of information online, nothing compared to what our government knows and we can see what has to be done. Either they do too and don’t care or they are too weak to take a stand.