UK terrorist threat level raised to 'severe'

[Mr. Fox]

UK terrorist threat level raised to 'severe', Theresa May says

The UK has raised the terror threat level from "substantial" to "severe", Theresa May has announced

The UK's terror threat level is being raised from "substantial" to "severe", Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

The new alert level means an attack is "highly likely", although Mrs May said there was no intelligence to suggest an attack on the UK was "imminent".

She said the level had been raised in response to events in Iraq and Syria. It is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels.

The level last changed in July 2011 when it was reduced to "substantial".

Mrs May said: "The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West.

"Some of those plots are likely to involve foreign fighters who have travelled there from the UK and Europe to take part in those conflicts.

"The first and most important duty of government is the protection of the British people.

"We have already taken steps to improve our powers and increase our capabilities for dealing with the developing terrorist threats we face. That process will continue and the British public should be in no doubt that we will take the strongest possible action to protect our national security."

She said the UK faced a "real and serious" threat from international terrorism, urging members of the public to remain vigilant.

TBH I'm a lot more scared of Tories than of ISIS. [*places self in detention*]

[emordnilap]

We have already taken steps to improve our powers and increase our capabilities for dealing with the developing terrorist threats we face.

Just like stripping ordinary people of rights and assets, then having to buy weaponry to subdue the dissent this causes: eliminate and stop creating/aggravating the conditions for aggression, then get back to us, Tessie me darlin'. The UK and the US regimes are the prime terrorists.

For example, to quote one David Swanson in CounterPunch:

So, the first thing to do differently going forward: stop bombing nations into ruins, and stop shipping weapons into the area you’ve left in chaos.

[emordnilap]

But he said people "might see some changes in terms of policing and the number of armed police".

Naomi Klein, how are ya?

Bit by bit. Step by step.....

[SleeperService]

Is it just me or have the UK (and US) Police forces changed into paramilitary Civil Guards rather than crime solvers?

Both seem to be heading down the military equipment/water cannon/surveillence route at the expense of dealing with crimes committed against anyone outside the Golden Circle. Release a film showing prominent government figures in an unusual state of mind and get arrested under Prevention of Terrorism on the one hand. Apparently. On the other a rape case is subject to rather superficial investigation and a case presented that has holes shot through it, I know I was there....(at the trial in the public gallery).

They enter parliament green and straight and become yellow and bent. Apparently.

[RenewableCandy]

Brits rise to the threat

[biffvernon]

Nice.

Funny how the threat level was raised and then the next day the government say they are going to introduce a package of new repressive stuff.

[Mr. Fox]

Well, I don't know, I just wasted the whole day vigilantly hunting for terrorists and I didn't see a single one. I even tortured some guy with a beard (he had a rucksack) but he wouldn't confess to anything.

Threat level: my aunt's started sharing Britain First stuff on Facebook again

Anyways, inspired by that link: Here is the terrorism forecast issued by SIS for UK inland bluewaters at 19:84 on the 30th of Orwell 2014.

There are warnings of false flags in all areas except Whitehall.

The general synopsis at 21:45:

Crumbling empire 3000 miles west south west Lands End, fear spreading across Atlantic, contagion imminent.

The area forecasts for the next 24 hours:

Stagger, Doggedly, Forth: Ukraine shrinking from the East, lies, continual warmongering, occasional hate turning Nazi. Atrocious.

Putinland, Killedmyson, Fockall: evidence, lacking credibility, Youtube, perhaps photoshop later. False.

Germans Bite, Sanctions: Turning cold from the East, gas, none.

North Hysteria, South Hysteria: Islamophobia moving up from the South East, unsettling at first, propaganda, bad, turning worse.

Southeast Iceland, Lidl, Aldi: Profits increasing, austerity, poor.

Stockwell, Northern Line: Excessive, force 7 (shots to the head), heavy lies, no convictions, memory hole, still dead.

That concludes the terror forecast for this evening.

...and if you're driving anywhere tonight, do take care, as the ISIS making conditions treacherous.

[biffvernon]

Well done

[Mr. Fox]

Lucky - if I hadn't been ricin to finish that forecast,or bean anthrax about posing it, it might have been longer.

Right, must get back to doing this:

[Little John]

[Mr. Fox]

London 'terror threat': Metropolitan police deny tube attack hoax

The Metropolitan Police have been forced to deny rumours of a terror attack on the London underground after a hoax text message was widely shared on social media.

A text message, circulated mainly through social media, read: "They think there's a terror threat and that it will happen on the tubes tomorrow around the west end area. So don't go travelling on tubes!! It's better to be safe than sorry. Please share."

It continued: "Every single police officer in the met has been called into work from 4am onwards".

A Met Police spokesman said: “This rumour is completely untrue,” adding that the false claims had been circulating since last Friday.

He said: "These rumours are not uncommon. The only thing that gives them any credence is people re-tweeting them and circulating them."

According to the text the attack was due to take place this Saturday.

Yesterday Chief Superintendent Paul Brogden of the British Transport police tweeted: "Social media contains lots of rumours regarding threats to tube network tomorrow. There is no specific threat so keep calm & carry on."

He 'tweeted...'?

[RenewableCandy]

It's like the bloke from Crete who said all Cretans are liars...

[Mr. Fox]

>>> "Hi, is this the terror hotline..?" <<<

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[Mr. Fox]

Seriously though... I have heard something about a large group of some of the world's most ruthless terrorist scumbags meeting somewhere near Cardiff and Newport in a couple of days.

Should I call it in?

[Lord Beria3]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09 ... t-s01.html

The military buildup is being bolstered by efforts to create a crisis atmosphere at home. Home Secretary Theresa May announced Friday that the UK’s terrorist “threat level” had been raised from “substantial” to “severe,” the second-highest of the five threat levels.

The declaration was the decision of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), a branch of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency. May said the “increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West.”

This deliberately vague statement aside, the government did not give any specific reason as to why a terrorist attack on the UK was now deemed “highly likely.” Rather the Home Office added, “This means a terrorist attack is highly likely, although there is no intelligence to suggest that one is imminent.”

The decision was used by Cameron to make a fear-mongering speech in which he beat the drums ever louder in support of new wars. He used the Islamic State (IS) jihadist forces operating in Iraq as the bogeymen, saying they represented a “greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before.”

“We now believe that at least 500 people have travelled from Britain to fight in Syria, and potentially Iraq,” Cameron added. This is hardly a surprise, especially given that the British government was actively promoting the “rebel” forces in Syria fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, although the prime minister made no mention of this fact.

A Marxist interpretation of what is going on. It is extremely worrying the more militaristic noises coming out from certain quarters in terms of the Ukraine crisis. I worry that a generation of leaders in a post-Cold War world take for granted a world of peace and seem unable to comprehend that being aggressive towards Putin is a very dangerous game.

I still think that Merkel will restore sanity to it all eventually through a deal with Putin. She at least shows some signs of statesmanship.