From the presstitutes at the BBC
Manchester attack: UK terror threat level raised to critical
BBC,
23
May, 2017
The
UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of
"critical", meaning further attacks may be imminent,
Theresa May has said.
The
move came after investigators were unable to rule out whether
Manchester bombing suspect Salman Abedi acted alone, the prime
minister said.
Military
personnel will now be deployed to protect key sites.
Twenty-two
people were killed and 59 injured when a suicide bomber attacked
Manchester Arena on Monday evening.
The
prime minister also confirmed the government had triggered "Operation
Temperer", a long-standing emergency plan to put soldiers into
key public locations to support armed police in protecting the
public.
Military
personnel may also be seen at other events over the coming weeks,
such as concerts, Mrs May said, and would work under the command of
police officers.
The
prime minister said she did not want the public to feel "unduly
alarmed" but said it was a "proportionate and sensible
response"
She
said the government would take "every measure available to us"
to help the police protect the public.
"The
spirit of Manchester and the spirit of Britain is far mightier than
the sick plots of depraved terrorists.
"That
is why the terrorists will never win and we will prevail," she
said.
The
highest level, which is decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis
Centre - a group of experts from the police, government departments
and agencies - has only been reached twice before.
Met
Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who is the national
counter-terrorism policing lead, said the investigation was
"fast-moving and making good progress".
"However,
a critical line of inquiry is whether the dead terrorist was acting
alone or part of a group," he said.
"We
still have critical lines of inquiry they're chasing down which has
led to a level of uncertainty."
The
first time the threat level was raised to critical was in 2006 during
a major operation to stop a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners
with liquid bombs.
The
following year, security chiefs raised it once more as they hunted
for the men who had tried to bomb a London nightclub, before going on
to attack Glasgow Airport.
Here is what you are NOT being told about the attack.
Watson cites a case of a concertgoer witnessing a woman looking nervously at the place of the explosion but being told "How would you like to be accused?" and not following up.
Watson cites a case of a concertgoer witnessing a woman looking nervously at the place of the explosion but being told "How would you like to be accused?" and not following up.
Tell me how 5,000 troops can prevent a terrorist attack. They CAN, however, intimidate the population
Revealed: Secret plan to put 5,000 heavily-armed troops on streets of Britain to fight jihadis in event of a terror attack
- Operation Temperer would see troops guard key targets with armed police
- Plans drawn up by police chiefs and discussed by top Government officials
- Would be triggered by Cobra committee in event of simultaneous attacks
- Paris attacks convinced authorities military would be needed if UK hit
23
May, 2017
A
top secret plan for the mass deployment of armed troops on the
streets of Britain in the wake of a major terrorist attack can be
revealed for the first time today.
More
than 5,000 heavily armed soldiers would be sent to inner cities if
Islamic State or other fanatics launched multiple attacks on British
soil – an unprecedented military response to terrorism.
The
plan, codenamed Operation Temperer, would see troops guard key
targets alongside armed police officers, providing ‘protective
security’ against further attacks while counter-terror experts and
MI5 officers hunted down the plotters.
The
shocking plans for ‘large-scale military support’ to the police
are contained in documents uncovered by The Mail on Sunday. They have
been drawn up by police chiefs and are being discussed at the highest
levels of Government, but have never been revealed in public or
mentioned in Parliament.
The
mass deployment of Army personnel on the streets of mainland Britain
would be hugely controversial, even if it helped keep the population
safe, because it could give the impression that the Government had
lost control or that martial law was being imposed.
Baroness
Jones, who sits on London’s Police and Crime Committee, said she
was ‘shocked’ at the plans, saying: ‘This would be
unprecedented on mainland Britain.’ And she expressed concern that
the troops would not be sufficiently trained to protect civil
liberties.
Some
police leaders fear that the soldiers would be needed if there was a
wave of attacks by extremists inspired by Islamic State or Al-Qaeda,
as police forces no longer have enough manpower to cope.
It
can also be disclosed today that, after this year’s Paris
massacres, senior police officers discussed raising the terror threat
level in Britain from ‘severe’ to the highest level of
‘critical’, meaning a terror attack is ‘imminent’ rather than
‘highly likely’.
The
military contingency plan is revealed in the minutes of a National
Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) meeting held on April 22 at a hotel in
Leicester. Documents accidentally uploaded to the NPCC website give
details of what was discussed in a closed session.
Under the heading ‘COUNTER TERRORISM POST PARIS LARGE SCALE MILITARY SUPPORT TO THE POLICE’, the minutes reveal that deputy chief constable Simon Chesterman, the ‘national lead’ for armed policing, briefed the other chief officers.
The
paper says up to 5,100 military personnel could be deployed ‘based
upon force assessments of how many military officers could augment
armed police officers engaged in protective security duties’.
‘Discussions
were ongoing with Government’, the minutes added, saying: ‘Chiefs
recognised that the Army played an important part in national
resilience and supported the work going forward.’
After
being spotted by this newspaper, this section was removed from the
NPCC website on Friday.
Sources
confirmed the detailed plan had been discussed at the highest level
and would only be triggered by the Cobra committee chaired by the
Prime Minister if there were two or three terror attacks at the same
time in Britain, leaving police struggling to respond.
Will
Riches, vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales,
said: ‘The bottom line is you can’t reduce 17,000 police officers
and expect nothing to change. While police are well-versed at
contingency planning, the levels of cuts to officers means that we
cannot police events in the same way.’
Military activity on the streets has previously proved controversial. There was outcry in 2003 when tanks were stationed at Heathrow following warnings of a plot to shoot down a passenger jet.
And
residents were terrified when surface-to-air missiles were set up on
rooftops and in parks for the 2012 London Olympics. But it is thought
that the series of attacks across Paris by Islamists in January
convinced the authorities that military support would be needed if
similar atrocities took place right across Britain.
Raffaello
Pantucci, a security expert at the Royal United Services Institute
think-tank, said: ‘It makes sense. The Paris attacks were seen with
great concern because there were so many sites. The concern was would
the UK be able to respond in the same way? There was understandable
concern about whether they would get very stretched.’
A
separate note on an meeting of the NPCC on January 16, the week after
17 people were killed in Paris, reveals for the first time: ‘Chiefs
were asked to consider raising the threat level to critical’ –
but in the end the level was kept at ‘severe’.
It
is understood that Home Secretary Theresa May would not oppose
soldiers taking to the streets in a ‘worst-case scenario’.
But
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned: ‘Our national security
must not be put at risk. Theresa May has a responsibility to make
sure we have enough police for vital counter-terror work.’
Just
last month, days after the Tunisia beach massacre, security forces
and emergency services held a major training exercise called Exercise
Strong Tower which David Cameron said would ‘test and refine the
UK’s preparedness for dealing with a serious terrorist attack’.
Former
Cobra member Col Richard Kemp said plans have been stepped up as more
Britons go to fight with IS in Iraq and Syria. He said: ‘They are
returning with a level of capability previously unseen. They are
blooded, trained, motivated and given direction to return home and
attack us here.’
The
Home Office declined to comment. The MoD says it ‘works closely
with other government departments and agencies to ensure that it is
able to provide appropriate assistance in response to any security
threats.’
"NATO
and the United States should change their policy because the time
when they dictate their conditions to the world has passed,"
Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Dushanbe, capital of the Central
Asian republic of Tajikistan
Trump
hands Saudi Arabia $380 billion, days later ISIS celebrates
Manchester Ariana Grande attack
Islamic
State supporters celebrated on social media after a blast at a
concert venue in the north of England killed at least 19 people
23
May, 2017
Days
after US President Donald Trump signed $380 billion in business deals
and a
whopping $110 billion in arms sales to
ISIS sponsor Saudi Arabia, a terrorist attack that has all the
hallmarks of an ISIS/ISIS inspired attack at an Ariana Grande concert
in Manchester UK unfolds.
The
Islamic State has not officially claimed responsibility for the
attack, but all signs point to ISIS.
Irregardless
of whether ISIS officially claims responsibility, or not, the
jihadist group that has been nurtured and raised by the Obama White
House, Saudi Arabia, and Erdogan’s Turkey, as a frankenstein army
entrusted with overthrowing Assad in Syria, celebrated the attack…
1) No claim regarding blast in #Manchester, but #ISIS accounts celebrating the attack, disseminating media & threats
We
can not forget that the UK has also sold Saudi Arabia billions of
pounds worth of arms, which have gone towards bombing Yemen and we
are certain, funneled to ISIS jihadists in order to keep the fight
going in Syria.
Trump’s
visit to Saudi Arabia to ink billion dollar deals, followed by this
terrorist attack, shows that the monster of Wahhabism unleashed
unto the world via Saudi Arabia (and their petrodollar leverage),
will continue to cost the lives of the most innocent of people.
British police have said they are treating the blast at the Manchester Arena at the end of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande as a “terrorist incident”. More than 50 people were wounded.
Twitter accounts affiliated to Islamic State have used hashtags referring to the blast to post celebratory messages, with some users encouraging similar attacks elsewhere.
Some messages described the attack as an act of revenge in response to air strikes in Iraq and Syria.
“It seems that bombs of the British airforce over children of Mosul and Raqqa has just came back to #Manchester,” one user named Abdul Haqq said on Twitter, in reference to the Iraqi and Syrian cities held by the militants where a U.S.-led coalition, of which Britain is a member, is conducting air strikes.
Supporters posted messages encouraging each other to carry out “lone wolf” attacks in the West and shared Islamic State videos threatening the United States and Europe.
One user said he hoped Islamic State was responsible for the attack, although no claim has appeared on any of the militant’s group’s official social media channels.
“We hope that the perpetrator is one of the soldiers of the caliphate,” he wrote on a channel affiliated to the group hosted by messaging network Telegram.
Others posted banners saying “the beginning is in Brussels and Paris, and in London we form a state,” in reference to previous similar “lone wolf” attacks in Belgium and France for which the group has claimed responsibility.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said the blast was being treated as a terrorist attack.
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