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SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears

posted by takyon on Sunday June 18 2017, @07:57PM   
from the do-they-beg-for-taxes dept.

n1 writes:

Armed SAS troops have reportedly been deployed to key positions in busy streets across the UK, with hopes that the tactic will have soldiers poised for any unfolding terror attacks.

One source told The Mirror: "The view is there are so many homeless people out there undercover operators will remain safe and anonymous.

[...] Another source claimed to the paper that the operation had been ongoing for "some time", with soldiers stationed around transport hubs and shopping centres.

Soldiers from the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Wing have reportedly been drafted for the operation.

Source: The Sun

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• Re:Not enough manpower (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:22AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:22AM (#527724)

  This is a very odd story, if true. One wonders in either case why the media would even write about it.

  Indeed, 'Let's support our brave troops by blabbing about their undercover ops...' doesn't quite ring true..

  The SAS is quite small, best Internet guess around 1200-2000 people and they won't all be doing this, so it probably ain't large enough to field any kind of beggar-army to cover all metropolitan hotspots in Britain even if they wanted to for some extended period of time.

  The oft-quoted figure is 400-600, I suppose that's currently active, I'd be surprised given their nature that the number would be much higher than that, or publicly revealed. As for 'all metropolitan hotspots in Britain', they'll only be hanging around 'high value' targets, so London & our beloved 'great and good'..

  Is the next ISIS target going to be killing beggars in metropolitan areas of Britain in hope of them finding an SAS operative to kill? Just waiting for some idiots to start kidnapping homeless people to make homegrown beheading videos.

  Yes, you do wonder why they've painted such a large target on the backs of such a vulnerable group...

  As a scare-tactic this probably won't work on terrorists -- if the last couple of attacks are any indicator of how things goes then no terrorists are coming out alive. So the threat of being interrupted by some special forces operatives probably isn't real enough to have any kind of deterrence effect.

  Seeing as they're going to die in glorious jihad (choice of houris. sherbet etc. etc. ) there is no 'scare-tactic' value in announcing another way of killing them, you want to scare them? arrange to keep them alive in an immobile state for the rest of their lives (no possibility of prayer etc. etc. etc..).
  Termination with extreme prejudice doesn't have to be quick.

  I guess the sad part is that there are a lot of x-military personal on the streets as beggars already, they just are not there as part of some operation. They are there cause they are actual beggars, with physical and mental issues.

  Indeed, far too many, sure, TPTB engage in the occasional 'hand wringing exercise' about this but you get the impression that they're acceptable casualties of a military system they don't want to change.

  Quoted out of sequence here..

  So this either have to be a very limited operation or they are hoping for some kind of panopticon effect -- you never know when you are being watched. This could be some weird ass psyops.

  As we're constantly told, we already live in the CCTV capital of the world (actually, we don't, but there are quite a number of them in the major metropolitan areas), you already 'never know when you are being watched', and, as has sadly been shown, the only fucking use these things (CCTV cameras) are good for in terrorist incidents is providing the retrospective requisitely fuzzy footage of the bastards as they set out to do whatever they've planned to do, of course, I do feel that I have to point out that as we're told the numbers but never the details about any of their claimed 'operational successes' for 'operational security' reasons, what do I know?

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