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Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 24 2017, @03:13PM   Printer-friendly

n1 writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:57PM (3 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:57PM (#514979) Journal

    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.

    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]

    Pavlo Serhiyovych Lapshyn (Ukrainian Cyrillic: Павло Сергійович Лапшин[2]) is a Ukrainian far-right terrorist who perpetrated his crimes in 2013 in the United Kingdom. Lapshyn was given a life sentence, and will serve a minimum of 40 years, for a murder in Birmingham and three attempted bombings of mosques in the West Midlands. He confessed to police that his motivation was to kill non-whites.

    --
    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]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:24PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:24PM (#515000)

    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)

      by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:41PM (#515016) Journal

      > 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

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:58PM (#515030)

        The murder in Birmingham I mentioned doesn't count?

        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 didn't say they were.

        I know you didn't, that's why I mentioned it as an addition to the statistics. [conservapedia.com]