From the
Daily Telegraph:
Al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq are planning the first "large-scale" terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.
Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in an attempt to "shake the Roman throne", a reference to the West, according to The Times newspaper in the UK.
We can hope that this is just bluster and wishful thinking. We can also stick our heads in the sand and hope it all goes away. As 9/11, 7/7, Madrid, Bali, Breslan and other plots too numerous to mention from Baghdad to Canada illustrate, for Al Qaeda and their ilk it isn't a matter of motives, but of means.
Ah, that's nothing but racist hearsay, xenophobic malarky and jingoistic balderdash. Terrorism's a *POLICE* problem, remember?
ReplyDelete"for Al Qaeda and their ilk it isn't a matter of motives, but of means."
ReplyDeleteWell, obviously.
Which is why any newspaper article trying to guess what horrors Al & Co are planning next is almost certainly bound to be 1) correct and 2) pointless.