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FBI counter-terror agents to guard UK airports against Islamic jihadis

Aug 25, 2014 11:12 am By Robert Spencer

FBI-UK-airports-502667“There is a suspicion among the US intelligence community that Britain has been and still is a soft touch for jihadists.” No kidding, really? Things must be really bad in Britain if the politically correct and willfully ignorant FBI, which is forbidden to examine Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism, is a step up from their current efforts. But it is: the British government has worked with Islamic supremacists it mistook for “moderates”; funded liars who exaggerated claims of Muslim victimhood; and for years ignored an Islamic supremacist takeover of public schools for fear of being called “Islamophobic.” So anxious to appease Islamic supremacists is the British government that it banned Pamela Geller and me from entering the country for saying that Islam had a doctrine of violence against unbelievers (which it obviously does). Even today’s compromised FBI can help them improve on that sorry record.

“EXCLUSIVE: FBI agents to guard UK airports against jihadi fanatics,” by Caroline Wheeler and Amardeep Bassey, Express, August 24, 2014:

Three US officers from a specialist FBI counter-terror unit are expected to land at Heathrow on Tuesday, with another 10 arriving within the week and dozens more over coming months.

They will monitor suspect passengers as well as ­investigate “terror hot-spots” across Britain in the wake of the beheading of American James Foley in Iraq. Last night, however, critics claimed their arrival was an admission that cuts to police and the UK Border Force had left Britain out of its depth and overwhelmed in the war on terror.

Officially, US officers who have been monitoring terrorist activity ever since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 will liaise with the Metropolitan Police’s secretive SO15 counter-terrorism command and MI5.

However, there are fears they eventually intend to conduct their own parallel investigations and recruit their own informants in UK and European jihadi circles.

Last night a US intelligence source told the Sunday Express: “Certain areas in the UK have been identified as being terrorist hot-spots and we will be particularly keen to glean further intelligence and garner sources there.

“At airports we will help to monitor by cross-checking details with an international terrorist database which is updated daily.

“The team will be working closely with UK intelligence officers already based at airports but may be a little thin on manpower. Essentially we bring to the table advanced monitoring capabilities and terrorist-tracking and identification techniques which have been tried and tested.”

The move comes amid growing US concerns that Britain is not doing enough to stem the flow of jihadists travelling to join the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The source added: “There is a suspicion among the US intelligence community that Britain has been and still is a soft touch for jihadists. We are sending officers to assist the British authorities in collating information using the most up-to-date techniques.”

Labour’s shadow policing minister Diana Johnson said: “The questions being raised about border security are worrying but perhaps unsurprising.

“The Home Office have stretched the UK Border Agency to breaking point, so it is little wonder gaps are emerging.” Another Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, said: “It’s a bizarre turn of affairs that they are coming here to police our streets and it says a lot about the inadequacies of our current systems.

“Our airports are undermanned and maybe American assistance in that area will be a good thing.

“Overall though, the FBI coming here is an admission by the Government that it is out of its depth in dealing with the problem.”

Tory MP Andrew Percy said: “We have failed as a nation to tackle this problem, so I am more than happy to have the FBI on the ground in this country so long as they work under the direction of the British authorities.”

Last night Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned: “We’re likely to be dealing with the enduring threat from Syria and Iraq for a generation.

“IS are turning a swathe of Iraq and Syria into a terrorist state as a base for attacks on the West. Unless they are stopped, sooner or later they will seek to strike us on British soil..”

The Met Police refused to comment other than to confirm it often works with US partners.

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  1. Rob says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 11:37 am

    The article is right. I live in the U.K and the spread of radical Islamism (plus the cowardice of the UK ‘government’) is unbelievable. The only politician to address this issue is Nigel Farage MEP of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party). The politicians of the Tories, Labour, and Liberal Democrats have gone out of their way not to appear ‘Islamophobic’ (fake made-up word to silence dissent and truthful analysis). We have the extreme left siding with Islamists and violent attacks on democratic protests. The UK is fast becoming a thought-police controlled sham, and the LibLabCon ‘governments’ have allowed, nay- encouraged, it. I only hope that the 2015 General election here sees UKIP gain seats in parliament- we need honest analysis of what is happening to Britain. I only hope and pray that it’s not too late for us.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Aug 25, 2014 at 1:15 pm

      UKIP is the only useful vote BUT it has no specific anti-muslim platform, unless its anti-immigration policy is tuned for purpose.
      Liberty GB is the sole party to oppose Islam–

      http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/about-libertygb/manifesto/398-islam

      No chance of LGB getting many votes but might be able to influence UKIP, who will be more and more successful as the idiots for Islam begin to wake up…

      • Henry says

        Aug 25, 2014 at 4:27 pm

        Spot on.

    • Joe says

      Aug 25, 2014 at 2:25 pm

      Chin up, Rob. It’s not too late – the groundswell of dissent over the UK government’s softly softly approach is growing. If you read the Telegraph blogs you’ll find Brits voicing their opinions in no uncertain terms.

      Cameron, Miliband and Clegg have been bedazzled by Islam for too long. They have to be held accountable for the dreadful danger they’re putting every single British citizen in (I don’t count muslims among this group of British citizens). We’re letting the dhimmis in Westminster know that if they don’t shape up they’ll be shipping out of government.

    • Tom says

      Aug 28, 2014 at 2:37 pm

      I really don’t understand all the commotion about wannabe terrorists and stopping them before they leave the country, all over Europe. I wouldn’t just let them go but would give them a free ticket and some pocket-money. Just get rid of them and never allow them to come back. It is better to know where your enemies are instead of letting them live amongst us.

      Tom

  2. Richardl says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 11:38 am

    I am quite certain that this has been going for years. But why make it public today? So that the returning Jihadis don’t return via Britain but head for Germany, Italy and other countries? That’s the only idea I have.

    Anyway, Britain has now officially lost parts of its sovereignty to its islamic invaders and now must give up more to the US in the hope that it might get some back from the invaders. Britain is lost.

  3. Salah says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    As long as Britain, or any country, don’t have the courage to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, it is lost.
    The Muslim Brotherhood is ISIL, it is al Qaeda, it is Boko Haram, it is Hamas. The MB is Islam.

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/13062-congress-bill-calls-for-designating-muslim-brotherhood-as-terrorist-organisation

  4. tpellow says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    “The West must defeat both ISIS and Hamas”

    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5187/the_west_must_defeat_both_isis_and_hamas

  5. tpellow says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    “DOES THE COALITION GOVERNMENT HAVE THE FAINTEST IDEA WHAT ITS POLICY ON IS AND SYRIA IS SUPPOSED TO BE?”

    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6545-does-the-coalition-government-have-the-faintest-idea-what-its-policy-on-is-and-syria-is-supposed-to-be

  6. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 1:36 pm

    The ties that bind the U.K., the United States, Canada and Australia must always remain strong. Should any one of these countries ever be in danger, the others must come to the aid of the one in need. May neither Islam nor any other disruptive force ever be allowed to break the common ties … and may God always extend a blessing to these four great lands.

  7. pongidae rex says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    Remember, “In Diversity, there is Strength”.

    Remember, “Border enforcement is racism.”

    Remember, “We are a nation of [non-European] immigrants.”

    Remember, “The only thing you have to fear is ‘racism’ and ‘islamophobia’.

    Remember, “Terrorists have feelings and human rights too.”

    Remember, “Soon Americans of European descent will be a minority. That is a good thing!”

    Repeat the above 100,000 times, or you are a ‘Far Right’ fanatic on ‘the List’.

  8. Jerry says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    And who is going to guard the Brits against Obama appointed FBI Jihaddists?

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    So the FBI teams up with Scotland Yard and what, there’s gonna be vigilance against the mujahadin entering the UK to strike there? The FBI and Scotland Yard are forbidden from knowing that they’re going in to do Jihad, as is their Koranic duty. Nor can they know that Islam is more than a religion, one that is corrective by nature with the goal of destroying all other belief systems, and to install global Sharia governance and military oversight when the Cause is finally realized. Much as the new Caliphate is doing right now in the Levant.

    No, it is verboten to know the truth. That would be, well, racist and xenophobic.

    Maybe our chief law enforcement officer, Secretary Eric “The Red” Holder can sort things out. After all, he’s a proud black man who’s had it with prejudice. Let Red deal with the Caliphs, that’d be fun to watch. A reel spectacle.

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