Tiny Minority of Extremists Update. "Britain's spy chief warns of terrorist plots" from Reuters:
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's intelligence agency head was quoted on Friday as saying up to about 30 major terrorist plots were being planned in the country and that future threats could involve chemicals and nuclear technology.
Eliza Manningham-Buller, director general of MI5, said young British Muslims were being groomed to become suicide bombers and that her agents were tracking some 1,600 suspects, most of whom were British-born and linked to al Qaeda.
"We are aware of numerous plots to kill people and damage our economy. What do I mean by numerous? Five? Ten? No, nearer 30 ... that we know of," Manningham-Buller said in a speech in London on Thursday that was reported by British media.
She was quoted as saying the plots were "priority one" cases.
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"My officers and the police are working to contend with some 200 groupings or networks, totaling over 1,600 identified individuals who are actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts here and overseas," she said.
Manningham-Buller said the number of cases being pursued by security services had risen by 80 percent since January.
"Today we see the use of home-made improvised explosive devices. Tomorrow's threat may -- and I suggest will -- include the use of chemicals, bacteriological agents, radioactive materials and even nuclear technology," she said.
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Manningham-Buller said it was clear from so-called "martrydom" videos that suicide bombers were motivated in part by "their interpretation as anti-Muslim of UK foreign policy, in particular the UK's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan."
As well as at least 95 other things.
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"her agents were tracking some 1,600 suspects, most of whom were British-born and linked to al Qaeda."
-- from the article above
To track one person round-the-clock requires not just one other person, but a whole team of peple for round-the-clock surveillance. For the British to properly tack "some 1,600 suspects" enjoying life in a free society, and exploiting that free society's freedoms (and the consequent constraints on the police) to the fullest, would take 5,000 agents or possibly more. Let's assume that each agent costs the state $60,000 per annum. That is $300 million dollars just for that tracking of individuals known to the authorities. What about the vast sums incurred to monitor all the mosques, and all the Muslim communities -- beyond those 1,600 individuals? What about the costs assoricated with guarding churches, synagoguges, Hindu temples, airports, trains and train stations, every train and every station on the London Underground, bus stations, taxi terminals, government office buildings, museums, concert halls, and all the sites on the list of the National Trust? What about the general unsettlement -- have you taken the London Underground recently? does it feel the same as it did, say, five years ago, or ten? What about travel in planes to and from England -- just the same, or quite different?
I will repeat what I keep putting up here, which no one in Western Europe can truthfully take issue with, even if one might disagree with the prescriptions I offer:
The large-scale presence of Muslims in the countries of Western Europe has led to a sitatuion, for the indigenous Infidels and for other, non-Muslim immigrants, to a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than it would be without such a large-scale presence.
Try to deny the truth of that observation. Try.