Britain’s Anti-Terror Chief Offers Somber View

Source: New York Times

LONDON, April 25 — In a somber and wide-ranging assessment of the threat facing his country, Britain’s top counterterrorism police officer, Peter Clarke, said Al Qaeda has survived “a prolonged multi-national assault” and its supporters had established “an inexorable trend towards more ambitious and more destructive attack planning.”

“The only sensible assumption is that we shall be attacked again,” Mr. Clarke said on Tuesday night.

He also said around 100 suspected terrorists were awaiting trial in Britain — in addition to several trials currently in progress — and their cases would confirm a trend that has emerged since 2004 for young British Muslims to travel to Pakistan for training and to receive instructions before returning home to plot attacks.

Mr. Clarke’s lecture at the Policy Exchange, a private policy research group, was significant both for its content and its timing. It offered a rare overview of the development of terrorism threats and of police and secret intelligence service counter-measures since Sept 11, 2001.



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Just tradition and whatever Parliament chooses to do. If they get a major attack, Britain will adopt a "Patriot Act" on steroids. I fear the same thing might happen here.

That pretty much cinches the fact that Bush/Blair have exacerbated the furor of the Muslims against our two countries. The two of them should offer themselves as martyr hostages to end the hate.