Great Britain Raises Islamist Terrorist Threat Level

[Elephant Tipper 430]

http://www.theguardi...-terror-threats

(Prime Minister Cameron's press conference audio link on webpage; threat level history graph below which identifies "severe attack is highly likely")

Cameron plans to seize suspects' passports in response to terror threat

Prime minister announces plans for legislation to deal with increased security threat posed by homegrown militants

David Cameron announced plans to introduce new powers to strip terror suspects of their passports to tackle a "greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before".

In a hastily convened press conference at Downing Street, the prime minister said he would announce legislation to deal with the security threat posed by homegrown militants.

The measures, set to be announced in the Commons on Monday, would be the first new counter-terrorism powers to be introduced since Islamic State (Isis) militants took hold of large swaths of Syria and moved into Iraq.

Cameron said urgent action was needed to address the "poisonous narrative of Islamist extremism" and specifically Isis, a terror group he said was planning to establish a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean.

He was speaking hours after the UK terror threat was raised from substantial to severe for the first time since 2010. This means that an attack is deemed to be "highly likely" – although not necessarily imminent.

Cameron said: "There's no doubt in my mind that Isil [isis] is targeting all of us in western Europe. The attack in the Jewish museum in Brussels was perhaps the clearest indication yet that this is an organisation that wants to kill entirely innocent people in pursuit of its agenda. I'm absolutely satisfied that Isil would make specific threats to the UK as well."

Setting out the scale and nature of the government's response to the threat, Cameron said that 500 Britons are believed to have left the UK to fight in Syria and Iraq. He said he was "shocked and sickened" by the beheading of the American journalist James Foley in an Isis propaganda video presented by a British-accented fighter.

He said: "It was clear evidence, not that any more is needed, that this is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home that we can hope to ignore. The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own security here in the UK."

Cameron said the threat could not be solved by dealing with the perceived grievances towards western foreign policy, adding: "The root cause of this threat to our society is quite clear. It is a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism that is condemned by all faiths and by all faith leaders.

"It believes in using the most brutal forms of terrorism to force people to accept a warped world view and to live in an almost medieval state – a state in which its own citizens would suffer unimaginable brutality, including barbaric beheadings of those who refuse to convert to their warped version of Islam, the enslavement and raping of women, and the widespread slaughter of Muslims by fellow Muslims. And, of course, the exporting of terrorism abroad."

Additional info:

http://www.breitbart...han-ever-before

[autigeremt 6,598]

I think the straw is going to break the back over in the UK real soon....and it's going to get ugly.

[TheBlueVue 177]

What a novel idea. Rather than denying the existence of Islamic Extremism, take proactive steps to "check" it.

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

No one in the WH has a clue. They are all too concerned with their golf handicap.

[TheBlueVue 177]

........." the most disturbing aspect of Mr. Obama’s performance. Throughout his presidency, he has excelled at explaining what the United States cannot do and cannot afford, and his remarks Thursday were no exception. “Ukraine is not a member of NATO,” he said. “We don’t have those treaty obligations with Ukraine.” If Iraq doesn’t form an acceptable government, it’s “unrealistic” to think the United States can defeat the Islamic State."

http://www.washingto...ad33_story.html

[icanthearyou 4,462]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

[TheBlueVue 177]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Boy, you're on a roll this morning. "Brilliant" post, as usual. It is interesting watching how emotional you get but then you add absolutely nothing to the discussion but this kind of stuff. It must be lonely being you.

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

Blue....it's way easier to just put some people on ignore.

[Elephant Tipper 430]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Dopey says as Dopey does. People like you ichy tend to melt into the woodwork when the crap hits the fan and then excoriate those who step up to confront this ever present evil.

[icanthearyou 4,462]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Boy, you're on a roll this morning. "Brilliant" post, as usual. It is interesting watching how emotional you get but then you add absolutely nothing to the discussion but this kind of stuff. It must be lonely being you.

Its rite their in front of ya boy. Only a libtard barry wurshiper cant see it. SMH. You aint gonna see it till the beheadins start are ya. Git your head out of the sand boy.

[icanthearyou 4,462]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Dopey says as Dopey does. People like you ichy tend to melt into the woodwork when the crap hits the fan and then excoriate those who step up to confront this ever present evil.

Why dont you come over here and try to take my gun. Well see who melts.

[TheBlueVue 177]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Boy, you're on a roll this morning. "Brilliant" post, as usual. It is interesting watching how emotional you get but then you add absolutely nothing to the discussion but this kind of stuff. It must be lonely being you.

Its rite their in front of ya boy. Only a libtard barry wurshiper cant see it. SMH. You aint gonna see it till the beheadins start are ya. Git your head out of the sand boy.

[Elephant Tipper 430]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Dopey says as Dopey does. People like you ichy tend to melt into the woodwork when the crap hits the fan and then excoriate those who step up to confront this ever present evil.

Why dont you come over here and try to take my gun. Well see who melts.

Can you even pull the hammer on a .22 ?

[icanthearyou 4,462]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Dopey says as Dopey does. People like you ichy tend to melt into the woodwork when the crap hits the fan and then excoriate those who step up to confront this ever present evil.

Why dont you come over here and try to take my gun. Well see who melts.

Can you even pull the hammer on a .22 ?

Nah, don't worry about me. You have enough to worry about already.

[TheBlueVue 177]

Hail, barry is moslim the directer of the cia is a moslim. This here is were the califate is. There want be no elections in 2016. in 2016 we is gonna have an iatollah not a precident.

Dopey says as Dopey does. People like you ichy tend to melt into the woodwork when the crap hits the fan and then excoriate those who step up to confront this ever present evil.

Why dont you come over here and try to take my gun. Well see who melts.

Can you even pull the hammer on a .22 ?

Nah, don't worry about me. You have enough to worry about already.

I am overwhelmed by your ability to "win friends and influence people"...LOL