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| UK prepares for Mumbai-style attack |
| 2011-03-15 |
| BRITAIN says it is training extra firearms police amid growing fears of a "Mumbai-style" terror attack. "We are working to prepare for any terrorist incident including a Mumbai-style attack in the UK," said Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones. The government is "training more police officers to respond to an armed attack and enhancing existing levels of firearms training," she added during a conference at the Royal United Services Institute in central London. Government ministers were also involved in "very testing" training exercises to help them to respond to such an attack, Neville-Jones said. In September, it was revealed that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to launch attacks in Britain, France and Germany by Pakistan-based extremists. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 What do muslims add to the UK economy? http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=979 |
| Posted by: Angeretle Snore6772 2011-03-15 16:57 |
| #4 Ive met with Dame Neville-Jones a long time ago . She is of 'good stock' , and is to put it mildly , extremely well informed . If she said jump , I would . If she thinks something is a necessity , then I would trust her judgment . Her two predecessors never earnt my trust , a pair of sniveling ladder climbing weasels if ever there were a pair . |
| Posted by: Oscar 2011-03-15 14:47 |
| #3 crosspatch, the 7/7 London attacks were intended to be a Mumbai-like event. I doubt the risk has been reduced since then - Mumbai is the sort of thing the jihadis hope to pull off in western countries. As the flu showed this past winter, the UK is overly lean in some emergency / attack response capabilities. It's not a bad thing if the authorities took the lesson. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-03-15 14:29 |
| #2 It dosent help when we let unemployed/unskilled workers into our country unlike US or Australia! |
| Posted by: Paul 2011-03-15 13:25 |
| #1 Is there an election coming up? The UK seems to bring up the whole "Mumbai style attack" thing every time an election comes around. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2011-03-15 13:20 |