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Stuart Harrison says terror war could go on for 50 years
MSH (Made shorter with a hatchet)
Security forces on both sides of the Atlantic have been forced to reassess their way of working following the 11 September terror attacks on the US. Attending a Las Vegas terrorism conference sponsored by the US Government, Superintendent Stuart Harrison told attendees, "this is bigger than everything we have ever imagined before", he said, "we are in this for the long run. It will be 35 to 50 years before we get it cracked." Superintendent Harrison, Counter Terrorist Police Military Liaison Officer for the Association of Chief Police Officers, outlined how the UK had reorganised its counter-terrorism efforts in the face of what he described as a new threshold of threat. Underlining the degree of danger, Superintendent Harrison said that there had been 558 arrests in connection with Islamic terrorism in the last year.
We haven't seen reports on nearly that number, have we?
We are fairly certain there are SAM 7 [anti-aircraft missiles] within the UK with al-Qaeda cells waiting for an opportunity to use them. Suicide attacks are inevitable," he said. "We are seeing UK being attacked overseas but it is by no means certain we will avoid an attack for very long." He added that police had already found belt bombs being manufactured in Britain. "We need to understand who we are fighting against, develop our technology and most of all have the people who are skilled at dealing with the threat," said Superintendent Harrison.
He doesn’t pull any punches.
But much of the rest of the Brit government does. See the above post on Kilroy. The enemy is as much PC (and I don't mean "patrolling constable") as it is terrorism.

Posted by: Super Hose 2004-01-12
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