The Director of the UK Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) has warned that jihad terrorist groups are gaining the capability to bring major Western cities to a standstill with the click of a button, adding that these groups have “no threshold when it comes to loss of life”. In other words, they are killing machines and destructive without boundaries.
Just a few examples of Islamic calls to attack us:
1. The Islamic State (ISIS) issued calls to attack the West during Ramadan.
2. The latest issue of al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire” calls on jihadis to destabilize the American economy by assassinating business leaders and entrepreneurs. Photos in the magazine include that of Bill Gates spattered with blood with a pistol close by.
3. In the words of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: “The first matter is striking the West and specifically America in its own home, and attacking their interests that are spread everywhere.”
4. The Islamic State issued a broad threat in 2014 that “the best thing you can do is to strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American or from any of their allies.”
Most revealing about that last listed threat issued in 2014 is that the UK Home Office called the message “propaganda” and called for Internet providers to pull it down; and the UK has also banned Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from entering Britain. It’s preposterous that the ban has not been since lifted in light of Jihadist crimes and massacres that have swept Europe since that unjustifiable and contemptible ban. And now the the Director of the UK Government Communication Headquarters has issued his warning about terrorists having “no threshold when it comes to life” and that at the click of a button, our cities could be crippled.
In fact, the article containing the 2014 ISIS threat was entitled “Western allies reject ISIS leader’s threats against their civilians.” In it, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve stated that “France is not afraid” because it is “not the first time we have been threatened by terrorist groups that attack our values of tolerance, humanism, respect for human rights and democracy.”
Well, that downplaying of the IS threat was prior to the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the coordinated Islamic State attacks on Paris in mid-November 2015 by Jihadist gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a concert hall, restaurants, bars and a major stadium, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Then there was the attack on Brussels and the catastrophic fallout from the flood of Muslim refugees into Germany. Now, at the click of a button, a major city may soon be crippled.
“Terrorist groups acquiring the cyber capability to bring major cities to a standstill, warns GCHQ chief”, by Henry Bodkin, The Telegraph, June 9, 2016:
Terrorists and rogue states are gaining the capability to bring a major city to a standstill with the click of a button, the Director of GCHQ has warned.
In a rare public appearance, Robert Hannigan said the risk to cities like London would increase as more physical objects, such as cars and household appliances, are connected online – the so-called “internet of things”.
Speaking at the Cheltenham Science festival, the intelligence chief warned that nation states were currently developing the kind of cyber programmes that could attack the UK, but that terrorist groups were also looking to take advantage of the technology.
“At some stage they will get the capability,” he said.
“There are certainly states and groups with the intent to do it, terrorist groups, for example, who have no threshold when it comes to the loss of life.
“We’re not quite there yet, but as the world becomes ever more connected that will become a greater risk.”….

Wellington says
No surprise here. One knows or should know that Islam is inimical, a compete adversary, to the West.
And yet just the other day the Fool-in-Chief talked about what a blessing Muslims were to America. You can of course find similar inane statements by other Western leaders like Cameron, Pope Francis and Merkel.
The time is out of joint and things are rotten not just in Denmark but throughout the West. Hugely so. Much, much more trouble ahead, courtesy first and foremost from the exculpation of evil rather than from evil itself.
gravenimage says
Wellington wrote:
And yet just the other day the Fool-in-Chief talked about what a blessing Muslims were to America.
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Yes–that insane article is here, Wellington:
“Obama: ‘Here in the US, we are blessed with Muslim communities…I stand firmly with Muslim American communities’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/obama-here-in-the-us-we-are-blessed-with-muslim-communities-i-stand-firmly-with-muslim-american-communities
common sense says
So called refugees are already an economic strain on the west and IS continually makes these statements to destabilize our country yet the fool leadership appeases the enemy in the face of these threats and pre meditated murders.
Bomb the IS water sources, oil fields and find out where the warfare training centers are and bomb them as well. Then gather the necessary men to clean up the rest.
WWII age limits on enlisted men was up to 45 years of age for a short time.
Congress has already declared war on these groups (but not the nations they hnide in) why not give Americans like me a chance to enlist en mass to go over their and finish the job. I know plenty of guys who would willingly clean these Islamomurders out.
Somehow its agbainst the leftist agenda of the abe of unreason.
Angemon says
Unfortunately, no one will care until something big happens. Then the usual dance will start – “this happened during your watch. No, during your watch you failed to take measures to prevent this and effectively handed us a time bomb with 0 seconds left” – no one will be found guilty and most people will forget it in favour of the next viral video about a cat coming form a dentist appointment and biting someone’s finger while doing a weird dance and shouting “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS”.
Guest says
Will someone explain how a group raised in the third world is able to have such a high level of hacking and programming.
And why hasn’t the pentagon or department of defense done anything?
marc says
their until recently (recently vaporized by a drone) top hacker Junaid Hussain, was born and educated in England. Like him, most of the jihadi hackers i come across had pakistani backgrounds, some turkish, moroccan, tunisian…
Angemon says
That, and they have big pockets – I’m certain the IS can afford to hire third-party hackers, if the need arises.
gravenimage says
It’s because so Mohammedans were suicidally allowed to study at Western universities.
Debi Brand says
Guest stated: “Will someone explain how a group raised in the third world is able to have such a high level of hacking and programming.”
Answer: Western training.
You likewise asked: “… why hasn’t the pentagon or department of defense done anything?”
They very likely have, if not done the training themselves, then created, shepherded, funded the program that provided the above featured skills to the followers of Muhammad.
Because–lest you forget–, in brief, we need our “Moderate Muslim allies.”
Therefore, in brief, to the best of our ability to do so we will, in all things, bring them up to speed.
And in so doing, not for one nanosecond, considering, at some point, as some moment, our devout Muslim “ally” will, “suddenly” “unsuspectedly,” weaponize his skills, his earned “trustworthiness” for the sake of Allah.
In brief.
vivienne Leijonhufvu (@goldaleijonhufv) says
HI guest, Obama is a muslim and encourages as much terror from moslems as can be feasibly done covertly. As for moderate muslims well as far as I am concerned it is time they came out of the wood work and fought against their own evil kind. The expertise to mount a major cyber disaster comes from Muslim contractors both moderate and other working in the west for years in IT research i.e. Bell Virgin Microsoft Hewlett why because they are cheaper to employ than western guys who demand a living wage. The moslem contractors have been renting houses all over Europe & US plus Scandinavia paying out little living expenses thus can work for less than $20 an hour. There is your answer and if you know anything about the contracting IT Industry this should be pretty obvious. I worked with them for 25 years supplying IT staff and the Moslems undercut everyone else. This is where they obtained their expertise from and also attending college on IT courses at the cost of the taxpayer in Europe cos we be poor little moslems. The stupidity of the world today is beyond my comprehension. Since 1969 this scum have been infiltrating our society marrying our women dumping them and taking their sons back to the middle east. I sick to death of all this it is bloody time we went to War and I like to be the top strategist to carpet bomb or use small nukes on every damnable middle eastern city outside of Israel. There is is nothing new under the sun and foolish America voted in a moslem with their emotions and guilt over the black problem instead of being objective. As for Hilary if that prize bitch gets in US you will have more of the same. As for Europe time we got rid of EU and Merkel.
gravenimage says
Warning to the West: Jihad groups acquiring cyber capability to bring major cities to standstill
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There have already been Jihad cyber attacks on web sites–including on Jihad Watch–but cyber attacks can, of course, be much more destructive.
Excellent–and very disturbing–article from Christine Williams, a contributor I have not seen here before.
I believe this is the same Christine Williams from the Gatestone Institute, whose work I have enjoyed many times.
Lots more from her here, including a lot of articles on Islam:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Christine+Williams
CrossWare says
You do not have to be a genius to start to do “black hat” type hacking. My company sent me to a hacker course once (to learn how to defend against attacks). The instructor gave us a list of dark web sites available where you can download virus generators, or software helps you create bot army to overload target sites. All available and 8 year old can setup anything he wants. Also you can hire sociopath hackers for fairly cheap too.
Troybeam says
Our nation has been hit with minor attacks however with all the male Islamic refugees coming into our nation added with the border issue of Islam entering from that direction plus the Islamic conclaves though out our nation we are in a position of a massive Islamic attack from many different directions, thanks to our government and our current administration especially Obama’s it’s a good time to be prepared for anything to happen even if we don’t have a clear picture of time.
Nigel GFF says
The article by Henry Bodkin (great name), points at ‘special pleading’ by the ‘spooks’ at GCHQ, not to have their budget cut. Our liberal elites want to cut funding in the name of privacy and personal freedoms violations (complex and valid arguments for sure, but potentially suicidal). Counter terrorism measures cost, and ‘The West’ may well declare ‘enough!’, our economies and peoples are again under attack, it’s time to fight back, unblinkered.
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826).
Ric says
The gormless Western leadership will blame Israel.