Al-Qaeda plot four more hits

WARNING: Mercer

By Jamie Lyons, 05/10/2008

AL-QAEDA is planning a new wave of attacks on Britain, security chiefs have warned.

Intelligence agencies are tracking FOUR plots to unleash carnage on our cities.

And they fear there could be up to a dozen more in the early planning stages. The terror operations are thought to centre on London and Birmingham.

Two are understood to be plans to launch devastating explosions in the city centres.

The intelligence services have less information on the others but fear there could be an attack on a POWER STATION, an attempt to poison WATER SUPPLIES or a bid to ASSASSINATE a top politician.

An intelligence source said one reason they were taking the plots so seriously was because there was foreign involvement-from Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Former Tory security spokesman Patrick Mercer, who has also advised Gordon Brown, said: "Because we have not been attacked since the handover of Prime Ministers last year does not mean to say that the threat has gone away. Not by a long chalk.

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"The fact that our enemies have not been successful for the last 12 months or so is a real tribute to our security forces."

The warning will bolster the government's case to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge.

TOP al-Qaeda commander Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi was killed in a gun battle with US troops in Iraq. His wife also died.

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I’m afraid we don’t need the likes of Patrick Mercer to tell us that the backlash from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is not over by a long chalk and the threat or consequences of the actions of our politicians like Mr Mercer, that said if we want peace we must vote for war will be with us all for a very long time.

It is said there are more than 2,000 would-be terrorists training in camps across England and since 2001 Afghanistan cost the taxpayers £2bn so what good is it to have our boys dying in Afghanistan when terrorists are already here? Fighting in Afghanistan will not protect our water supplies or power stations and they do not safeguard our security the terrorists are hear and our soldiers are protecting an Afghanistan strategic location.

Think what that £2bn of our money could have provided in the way of extra security for the people of England.

By Jack Realms. Posted October 8 2008 at 10:08 AM.

yawwwwn aint the government realised how boring they're getting anything to bring out the id cards

By mike jones. Posted October 5 2008 at 12:55 PM.

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