Yes, there certainly is. "Gordon Brown warns of 'chain of terror' as he pays tribute to dead Marines," by Julie Henry for the Telegraph, December 13:
In a surprise visit to the main UK military base in southern Afghanistan, Mr Brown paid tribute to four Royal Marines killed on Friday and told troops that Britain was safer because of the work they are doing fighting the Taliban.
A 13-year-old suicide bomber killed three Royal Marines south of the town of Sangin, while a fourth died in a separate explosion.
The youth approached a unit south of the Sangin area of Helmand province yesterday with a bomb which detonated, killing two soldiers from 45 Commando and one from Commando Logistics Regiment.
Earlier in the day, a Marine from 45 Commando was injured in a blast in the Sangin area. He died later of his wounds while being taken to the military hospital at Camp Bastion.
Speaking to troops in Camp Bastion, in Musa Qala, Mr Brown said: "It is a terrible commentary on the Taliban that they should use a 13-year-old child to be a suicide bomber to kill some of our British troops. These men will never be forgotten for what they have achieved on behalf of our country."
Mr Brown said the UK's 8,100-strong contingent of troops in Afghanistan was playing a vital role.
"There is a chain of terror that comes from the Pakistani and Afghan mountains right to across Europe and can end up very easily on the streets of Britain," said Mr Brown, standing alongside President Hamid Karzai at a Kabul press conference. "British people are safer today because we have our troops working with the Afghan people to act against terror."
But the Prime Minister also said the world could not rely only on the two biggest contributors, Britain and the United States, whose president-elect Barack Obama has pledged to send in more troops.
"In future, there must be proper burden sharing and that's something which we will insist upon," said Brown. "As we look forward with president Obama's plans now about to come forward, then burden sharing is very much a part of that."
Mr Brown said he was in Afghanistan to "take stock" of the situation.
Fund first, ask questions later:
He announced £7 million in funding to encourage registration in the election and said a taskforce of British officials had been offered to Afghanistan to root out corruption.
He also called on Pakistan and Afghanistan to work together to ensure cross-border stability in the mountainous area seen as a militants' hideout between the two nations.
"Joint action between Pakistan and Afghanistan... is essential if we're going to have peace and stability," he said. [...]
got news for you . They are already in the streets of Britain and also all over the country.
Are the British blind or deaf?
We are not blind or deaf but hamstrung by a Marxist government and their allies in the EUSSR who want to destroy every soverign Nation State in Europe.
Anyone who objects to this can expect a visit from the thought police.
Really?
Thanks for that Gordon, I'd have never known it.
Duh.
He also called on Pakistan "
hey Gordon that would be useless as the pak has infiltrated the UK with a borderless traffic between the the pak and the UK. the pak is your enemy Gordon. the British people know it, the elites are too scared to say it out loud!
Hamid Gul, the most powerful and popular thinker in Pakistan, considers Pakistan to be the modern Medina. In order to establish an Islamic model of governance that will compete with western-style democracy, it is important for Medina to establish an Islamic rule over Mecca (India). Then, an Islamic caliphate can be established from Morocco to Indonesia (with 2- 3 billion Muslims now). The caliphate can gradually expand then. The only country that he hates more than India in Israel. In a rather unabashed manner, he openly flaunts nukes and missiles capable of reaching not just India but another 'US ally'. No points for guessing that ally correctly. He also encourages cutting off US supply lines in Afghanistan using surreptitious means like militant attacks, planned 'democratic' protests and 'union' strikes. He believes in not confronting US openly till much later. But once a caliphate is re-established from Morocco to Indonesia with Pakistan as a center, wouldn't the oppressed people of the caliphate attack the west ? Far fetched ?
“… chain of terror … from the Pakistani and Afghan mountains … to … Europe”
There sure is. But don’t blame it on the mountains, Mr. Brown. Follow the chain to the end and to your great surprise you will find the Qur’an and Islam as the root causes of terror.
Brilliant Mr Brown!! Now try using that line of thought in parliament and put it to good use. Don't forget about it when you get back home.
Brilliant indeed. You can always blame it on the mountains.
His home secretary Jaqui Smith does one up:
UK home secretary names the enemy: “those peddling their particular brand of antidemocratic ideology in the guise of religion”
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/12/12/uk-home-secretary-names-the-enemy-those-peddling-their-particular-brand-of-antidemocratic-ideology-in-the-guise-of-religion/
"It is a terrible commentary on the Taliban that they should use a 13-year-old child to be a suicide bomber to kill some of our British troops. These men will never be forgotten for what they have achieved on behalf of our country."
They did not die for Britain. They died for the Afghan people, who may or may not appreciate that fact, and worst of all, they died for the Taliban. That's the tragedy. Lives, of good people, are being wasted for these neanderthals. I spent a month in Afghanistan some time ago and it is not worth fighting for. It is a land of savagery and barbarism.
He announced £7 million in funding to encourage registration in the election and said a taskforce of British officials had been offered to Afghanistan to root out corruption.
So the British are going to root out corruption in Afghanistan...
Uh huh...The British are good, but they are not 'that' good...
And what are the British going to do to those found 'spreading corruption in the land'? 5:33...
Probably just turn the corruptor's over to the Afghans and let them implement 'corruption' laws...
Watch for a number of Afghans hopping around on one foot...
Naresh~
To call Hamid Gul a "thinker" understates his resume. He is Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, and the former head of Pakistani intelligence ISI. He is also a walking set of conspiracy theories. He has made so many seditious statements through so mani Paki governments, that it's a wonder he remains alive.
This is the text of a recent interview with him. No caliphate stuff, but the guy sure has an imagination. Unfotuneately, the interviewer is Alex Jones, who is kinda loopy.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/alex-jones-interviews-lt-gen-hamid-gul-full-transcript.html
As for Gordon Brown, the bumbler is beneath contempt, and mind you, I am the RINO in the room.
~S. Kevin
Good, GB. Now admit that the problem is also Pakistan and that every single Paki whom your idiotic government has imported are exactly the same as the Taliban, praise the death of that little boy as "martyrdom," and wholeheartedly support the people behind it, while simultaneously rejoicing at the deaths of Allied soldiers and you're almost living in reality with the rest of us.
I just wish they'd give the Taliban plenty of forewarning so thy can get their snipers into position when Gordon Brown or any other Politician comes over to visit.
Gordon Brown isn't fit to lick the boots of any soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Regardless, Brown will not call the Muslims who planned the death of the four Marines "Islamic Terrorists" further adding insult to the lives of our servicemen/women. I have to say that I've never despised anyone in my life, that is before Gordon Brown came into power. No one voted for him and no one wants him. He's a disgrace, a pig ignorant disgrace.
He would call them "un-Islamic terrorists," wouldn't he? God, what a disturbed party. Not that they're much better than the Dems. The Dems just have the Repubs to check their insanity.
Um ... Gordon, they're there already, you big twit!
Who do you think bombed your subways on 7/7 ?
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Do you actually believe that anybody is taken in by your posturing now?
Gordon Brown, boldly warning against things that have already happened!
Nobody who is paying attention fails to understand that this is your way of doing nothing about your obvious present dangers.
Naresh:
Pity your ignorance! Makkah and Madina are peacful and holy places for Muslims. By labeling India, where you bathe annually in the filthy waters of Ganges along with cattle and their excreta, could not be replaced for such sacred places. Time to read and get rid of your inbred malice and ignorance.
Ipso Facto:
Ignorance-Thy name is this pseudo name Ipso Facto!
Idiot, Islam means peace and Qur'an teaches peace,love and human respect! Shed your ignorance by getting a copy of Qur'an,read and then send any such malicious, ill-founded and irrational comments!
Spend sometime with Fidel C.
Looks like we have another Abdulla M in the room folks. Its late this side of the pond, anyone want to be first?
islam means submission not peace you worthless turd
Aren't leaders suppose to "lead" a country,
leading in wisdom, thought and foresight?
If Gordon Brown's statement is an index of his awareness and preparedness level, the UK is in deep muck.
GinBaba,
I did not compare Mecca to India. I was quoting Hamid Gul who compared India to pre-Islamic Mecca and Pakistan to Medina. You are welcome to be angry with Hamid Gul for making such a comparison. If its blasphemy, he should be punished according to your laws.
Mecca's peaceful my ass. Read 'The Siege of Mecca.' There has never been peace or anything close to civility anywhere Islam reigns. I love it when people are proud of their ignorance brought on by the lack of a basic education and cultish milieu control.
Richard
you would have read Churchill's 'The Malakand Field Force'? It's the great man's own record of what it was like to fight Muslims in Afghanistan; and of what Islam did to the brains and morals of said Muslims.
Surely good libraries in the UK and good second-hand bookshops might have it tucked away somewhere. It's on my own must-read list...I should have ordered it interlibrary loan ages ago but haven't got round to it yet, along with 'The River Wars' (1899 unbowdlerised edition; Churchill describing war with Muslims in Sudan).
Mr Brown will never read either book, but smart Britons could surely form little book clubs and reading circles and study Winston Churchill's unexpurgated and totally non-mealy-mouthed analysis of the religion of the Mohammedans. (Churchill's books could be read in conjunction with another book on Afghanistan, highly recommended by a poster here at jihadwatch - 'Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkha Regiment', by John Masters).
Here, for anyone who hasn't heard of it, is an intriguing 'taster' from the 'Malakand Field Force', as conveniently shared by wallyUK here at jihadwatch in July this year:
"My favourite Churchillian passage on Islam comes from his 'Story of the Malakand Field Force.' It's worth posting again, I think.
QUOTE
'It is, thank heaven, difficult if not impossible for the modern European to fully appreciate the force which fanaticism exercises among an ignorant, warlike and Oriental population.
‘Several generations have elapsed since the nations of the West have drawn the sword in religious controversy, and the evil memories of the gloomy past have soon faded in the strong, clear light of Rationalism and human sympathy.
‘Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men's passions,and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination.
‘But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance.
'It was originally propagated by the sword,
'and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness.
‘In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside.
‘The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten.
'Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis--
'as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such.
‘While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness,
'poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting.
‘Thus whole nations are roused to arms.
'Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide.
' In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction.
‘The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace. Luckily the religion of peace is usually the better armed." END QUOTE
- Posted by: wallyUK at July 22, 2008 7:44 PM
There it is. According to Sir Winston S Churchill, Islam is "the religion of blood and war".
The sooner all we kafir, in the Anglosphere and beyond it, fully grasp what Churchill knew about Islam in the 19th century, the better we will all be placed to defend ourselves.
A 13-year-old suicide bomber killed three Royal Marines south of the town of Sangin, while a fourth died in a separate explosion
I guess it's ok for 20-40 year old marines to kill
women, children, and old folks, and call it an accident. But when your enemies attack back with ceude wepons (third world country) it seems kind of odd to everybody. I just dont know, since when has killing anybody been deemed a good thing, and then justifying it for as war on terrorism. Led by agenda of America, Britan has gone blind also.
Honestly do not see an end to this madness, as the world is dragged into economic chaos, the only solution may be a war to get the factories going, sounds familar...it should, that was the solution for America during the great depression...remember world war ll.
A 13-year-old suicide bomber killed three Royal Marines south of the town of Sangin, while a fourth died in a separate explosion
I guess it's ok for 20-40 year old marines to kill
women, children, and old folks, and call it an accident. But when your enemies attack back with crude wepons (third world country) it seems kind of odd to everybody. I just dont know, since when has killing anybody been deemed a good thing, and then justifying it,as war on terrorism. Led by agenda of America, Britan has gone blind also.
Honestly do not see an end to this madness, as the world is dragged into economic chaos, the only solution may be a war to get the factories going, sounds familar...it should, that was the solution for America during the great depression...remember world warII.
It all depends on how you envision the future, as to which side you pair with. The expansion of one ideology versus the other. Is this what the war on terrorism boils down to?
I wonder if the 13yr. old made his own explosives? He was a little bit below the average age of a suicide bomber. (18-24yrs.)
A rush to judgment.....I guess the implications of that statement can be offered up for debate also.
Possible headline in the UK.
'British Muslims fear repercussions over tomorrow's train bombing'
G Brown also said that there are currently 20 terrorist attacks being planned at present destined for the streets of the UK and coming from that peace loving Islamic state, Pakistan.
GinBaba
Who are you calling inbreds? It's you Mohammedans who are!
As for hygene, wiping your butts with stones or drinking camel urine is sure a far superior life to bathing in the Ganges
I think we've pretty well deconstructed every point that douchehat has made, except for one: he called the Ganges filthy and Mecca and Medina "clean." Well, they're filthy, like every inch of every Islamic paradise, but let's see how Mohammedans take care of their rivers (since Mecca and Medina are conveniently "clean" by virtue of having none, festering garbage covering every inch of both cities aside):
http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/IslamicVoodoos/Part9.htm
All the "ignorance," "filthy," and "inbred" talk are of course nothing more than typical, transparent, Mohammedan projection. One has to always bear in mind when dealing with Mohammedans that they are ridiculously deluded, necessarily retarded (usually from inbreeding), mentally ill, and lacking in a legitimate 1st-grade education.
Wake up and smell the shit which is growing in UK and in Europe.