We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. See the Community Noticeboard for more info. Thank you for your patience.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

terrorist threat

Options
145791013

Comments

  • sexymouse
    sexymouse Posts: 6,131 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    It ocurred to me that they may never have intended to go through with their plans, and that the plans were leaked on purpose to cause a mass panic - which they succeeded in doing. Apparently this a technique that the IRA used to use.
    Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
    I married Moon 8/4/2011, baby boy born 26/9/2012, Angel Baby Poppy born 8/11/15, Rainbow baby boy born 11/2/2017
  • But hasn't the security been stepped up world wide? Plus, the main focus has been on UK-US flights - why would any other country be attacked by these people?
    Was debt free... then went travelling!
  • Murphy_The_Cat
    Murphy_The_Cat Posts: 20,968 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Anyone like to speculate on how many of the 24 detainees are completely innocent and the Police finding nothing in their houses?

    I'll speculate --- after months of surveillence I would think that none of them are cpmpletely innocent.

    How many will be found guilty by a jury of woolley minded liberals is another matter.

    MTC HissyClaw.gifMTCEnglish.gif
  • Al Queada have hit in Africa and the Far east before
  • I'll speculate --- after months of surveillence I would think that none of them are cpmpletely innocent.

    How many will be found guilty by a jury of woolley minded liberals is another matter.

    MTC HissyClaw.gifMTCEnglish.gif

    We could always of executed them like Jean Charles DeMenezes
  • Murphy_The_Cat
    Murphy_The_Cat Posts: 20,968 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    We could always of executed them like Jean Charles DeMenezes


    yyaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn, everyones heard that one ad nauseum.

    so tell me billy the kid, (always assuming that you had access to the same information that the Pakistani, American & British authorities) what would you have done ???

    MTC HissyClaw.gifMTCEnglish.gif
  • I would have done exactly the same thing.

    I posed the question as to how many people detained might be innocent, I feel in the current climate of fear, there may well be some that are. You have stated that none of them are completely innocent, and if tried will slip through the legal system, because of politically biasd juries.

    So my comments on Police executions still stands, if the Police had executed them we may well have stopped future atrocities, however we would have had to bear the prospect of killing some innocent citizens. I suppose my next question is 'is this a price we can accept'
  • Murphy_The_Cat
    Murphy_The_Cat Posts: 20,968 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I would have done exactly the same thing.

    I posed the question as to how many people detained might be innocent, I feel in the current climate of fear, there may well be some that are. You have stated that none of them are completely innocent, and if tried will slip through the legal system, because of politically biasd juries.

    So my comments on Police executions still stands, if the Police had executed them we may well have stopped future atrocities, however we would have had to bear the prospect of killing some innocent citizens. I suppose my next question is 'is this a price we can accept'

    billy the kid

    can I suggest that you take the question to Discussion Time and repost it as I think that you'll get a better response (and stop us both cluttering up the travel section smiley.gif)

    MTC HissyClaw.gifMTCEnglish.gif
  • Sorry - think it's my fault this turned into a discussion....I love a good mass debate :D
    Was debt free... then went travelling!
  • morettat
    morettat Posts: 15 Forumite
    I think it suits the UK & US governments to have something to distract everyone - on the TV news, etc. - from Israel's actions in Lebanon. It gives Israel more time to do what they think they need to do.

    It also serves to show people in the UK & US how 'those nasty Arabs' are still a threat, when we are all starting to be a bit more sympathetic to their being murdered in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon by UK/US/Israeli soldiers/weapons.

    We also have a Police force who are desperate - after some seemingly bungled operations - to be seen to be 'foiling' some major terrorist threats.

    May seem to be a conspiracy theory, and I'm sure there is something in the stories of what those arrested were planning, but I'm just saying it would serve all the vested interests to bring any arrests forward and to exaggerate their importance.
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 350.9K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.1K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.5K Spending & Discounts
  • 243.9K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 598.8K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 176.9K Life & Family
  • 257.2K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.