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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 fyngyrz on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:57PM (2 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:57PM (#514980) Journal

    Some sulfur, some saltpeter, and some charcoal, are all you need to make an explosive.

    You don't even need that. Everything needed to make extremely powerful explosive devices is already in the vast majority of homes, and no one would bat an eye if you didn't have same, and went out and bought what is required.

    The best thing about terrorists is that thinking clearly is beyond them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:14PM (#515044)

    You probably went to school and studied Physics or Chemistry. In the UK that means you can be convicted of "having information likely to be of use to terrorists" - a description that probably also includes train time tables, and the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

    Posting anonymously, as I studied both subjects, although I don't own a train time table - IME the trains don't keep to them anyway, and, even more worrying: to protect my liberty, I rely on Google's spelling correction.

    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:36PM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @07:36PM (#515064) Journal

      You probably went to school and studied Physics or Chemistry.

      No. I quit school in my teens. Which isn't to say that I didn't study, of course. I've never stopped, and I'm in my 60s. I might know a thing or two by now.