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For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from severe to critical, meaning an attack is "expected imminently".
[...] Mrs May also announced that troops would replace police officers at set-piece events including sports venues and concerts.
It will be the first time since 2003 – when the Government reacted to a plot to bring down an airliner – that troops are deployed on the streets.
[...] It is the first time Britain has been on maximum terrorist alert since 2007, when a blazing car loaded with gas canisters was driven into Glasgow Airport.
Source: The Telegraph
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday May 24 2017, @04:40PM (4 children)
The McVeigh incident was over 20 years ago, and there haven't been any similar incidents since then.
The other thing that's different is the suicide factor: I don't know of *any* instances of suicide bombing in the last half-century that were by non-Muslim extremists. There's been non-Muslim terrorism in the US and UK, sure: McVeigh in the US, and the IRA stuff in the UK, both ending over 2 decades ago I believe. However, none of that stuff involved suicide by the terrorists: they all made sure to figure out how to keep themselves not only safe but unaccountable (of course, that part frequently fails, but not always; it took a really serious and well-done investigation to figure out who committed the OK City bombing). Suicide bombings are worse, because without the need for the bomber to both survive and hopefully avoid identification and prosecution, that makes the violent act far, far simpler to carry out. Much of the planning for a bombing likely goes into those two things: avoiding surveillance cameras, witnesses, making the thing reliable for automatic detonation, etc. With a suicide bomber, it's all so much simpler: just make a vest and then walk right into the target zone in public and hit a switch.
The sheer difficulty of pulling off a bombing while evading identification and prosecution, like most crimes, deters most people who would like to do it from actually doing it. Lots of people would like to murder someone at some point, but don't, because there's no easy way usually to avoid prosecution. There'll be witnesses, there'll be evidence linking you to the crime, and even if you succeed in eliminating those factors (and remember, you may think you succeeded but you actually missed something, like McVeigh did, which investigators later find), you likely have a motive and past history tying you to your target which investigators will find. Suicide bombers don't have these problems, so there's little preventing them from carrying out their acts except the availability of the necessary materials.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:57PM (3 children)
Did you note the assassination of Jo Cox back in June?
/article.pl?sid=16/06/17/0240252 [soylentnews.org]
The Real IRA was active until 2001, and there have been a few other incidents not perpetrated by Muslims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain [wikipedia.org]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlo_Lapshyn [wikipedia.org]
For the U.S., Wikipedia has some examples from the last 20 years; the Army of God attack on the 1996 Olympics was notable even though it happened before the cut-off date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:24PM (2 children)
The Joe Cox murder was the only non-islamic UK act of terrorism that resulted in death for the last two decades. [twitter.com] I'm also unaware of any of the other groups you mention being involved in industrial scale child rape.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:41PM (1 child)
> The Joe Cox murder was the only non-islamic UK act of terrorism [...]
The murder in Birmingham I mentioned doesn't count?
> I'm also unaware of any of the other groups you mention being involved in industrial scale child rape.
I didn't say they were.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:58PM
You are indeed correct, it is listed in the linked chart under "other"... so that's 2 non-islamic terrorist murders against 85 islamic.
I know you didn't, that's why I mentioned it as an addition to the statistics. [conservapedia.com]