More on what Bharatvarsh posted (#74), including about the Terroristanis:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070115/2/122uj.html
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<b>British police thwart terror plot</b>
British police have arrested nine people in a major security swoop which a defence source said involved a plot to kidnap and possibly kill a Muslim British soldier.
Detectives said eight suspected conspirators were arrested in dawn raids across the city of Birmingham on "suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism". A ninth suspect was arrested later on a nearby motorway.
Twelve addresses in Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and one of its most ethnically diverse with a large Muslim population, were sealed off by uniformed officers and searched.
"This remains a dynamic, fluid operation and it is by no means finished," said Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw of West Midlands police. "We are literally right at the foothills of what is a very, very major investigation for us."
Britain has been on its second highest alert level since four Britons killed 52 people on London's transport system in July 2005 in Western Europe's first Islamist suicide bombings.
Security experts said the suspected plot was a departure from the mass-fatality attacks on transport networks and showed Britain was on the frontline of al Qaeda-style attacks.
"It certainly seems to confirm Britain is particularly vulnerable to al Qaeda-style attacks because of the historic links to Pakistan and the Pakistani community here," said Shane Brighton, a terrorism expert at London think-tank Chatham House.
"The suggestion is that there is a higher level of risk in the UK from those Pakistani-linked groups than there is elsewhere in Europe. We may well be on the forefront of this."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Last year the head of MI5 said about 30 terrorism plots were being worked on and agents were monitoring some 1,600 suspects.
That figure has increased rapidly since July 7, 2005, when London suffered its worst peacetime attack with the four British suicide bombers blowing themselves up on the transport network.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Similar stuff at UK Police Thwart Terrorism Kidnap Plot
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->a plan that reportedly involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier and broadcasting the killing on the Internet.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is another reason why it makes no sense for India's anti-Indian government to say there should be something like reservations for Islamics to be in the Indian forces. If they serve India faithfully, they would be targets of torture and murder by their own co-religionists for joining fight against Terroristan, the Kashmiri terrorists and the j-hadis on India-Bangladesh border.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070115/2/122uj.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thursday February 1, 05:59 AM
<b>British police thwart terror plot</b>
British police have arrested nine people in a major security swoop which a defence source said involved a plot to kidnap and possibly kill a Muslim British soldier.
Detectives said eight suspected conspirators were arrested in dawn raids across the city of Birmingham on "suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism". A ninth suspect was arrested later on a nearby motorway.
Twelve addresses in Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and one of its most ethnically diverse with a large Muslim population, were sealed off by uniformed officers and searched.
"This remains a dynamic, fluid operation and it is by no means finished," said Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw of West Midlands police. "We are literally right at the foothills of what is a very, very major investigation for us."
Britain has been on its second highest alert level since four Britons killed 52 people on London's transport system in July 2005 in Western Europe's first Islamist suicide bombings.
Security experts said the suspected plot was a departure from the mass-fatality attacks on transport networks and showed Britain was on the frontline of al Qaeda-style attacks.
"It certainly seems to confirm Britain is particularly vulnerable to al Qaeda-style attacks because of the historic links to Pakistan and the Pakistani community here," said Shane Brighton, a terrorism expert at London think-tank Chatham House.
"The suggestion is that there is a higher level of risk in the UK from those Pakistani-linked groups than there is elsewhere in Europe. We may well be on the forefront of this."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Last year the head of MI5 said about 30 terrorism plots were being worked on and agents were monitoring some 1,600 suspects.
That figure has increased rapidly since July 7, 2005, when London suffered its worst peacetime attack with the four British suicide bombers blowing themselves up on the transport network.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Similar stuff at UK Police Thwart Terrorism Kidnap Plot
Post 74:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->a plan that reportedly involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier and broadcasting the killing on the Internet.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is another reason why it makes no sense for India's anti-Indian government to say there should be something like reservations for Islamics to be in the Indian forces. If they serve India faithfully, they would be targets of torture and murder by their own co-religionists for joining fight against Terroristan, the Kashmiri terrorists and the j-hadis on India-Bangladesh border.