Al Qaeda bloodshed ‘will get worse’ in Britain
A Reuters report says that the foiled car-bomb plot in London shows al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Iraqi and Indonesian militants to Britain, the UK Prime Minister’s top terrorism adviser said yesterday.
“Make no mistake, this weekend’s bomb attacks signal a major escalation in the war being waged on us by Islamic terrorists,” John Stevens, the former commissioner of the London police, wrote in an article for the News of the World tabloid.
“Initially it was believed the main problem police faced was insulated groups of home-grown extremists, but now it is clear a loose but deadly network of interlinked operational cells has developed.”
“The terror of July 7, 2005 was awful enough, but now al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Baghdad and Bali to our streets and it will get worse before it gets better.”
Lord Stevens’ assessment follows the thwarting of a twin car-bomb plot in London, and the attempted attack on the terminal at Glasgow airport.
The two vehicles in London were found loaded with fuel, gas canisters and nails, and were parked near a nightclub.
London’s top counter-terrorism officer said the planned attack in London bore similarities to another plot, uncovered in 2004, in which an al Qaeda militant planned to detonated gas-fuelled bombs hidden in limousines across London.
The rash of incidents comes almost exactly two years after the July 7 attacks, when four suicide bombers carried out co- ordinated blasts on London’s transport system, killing 52.
Lord Stevens said there was the possibility that al Qaeda “Mr Bigs” were operating in Britain and said the seeds of Muslim terrorism had begun to sprout.
“The involvement, influence and even leadership of al Qaeda veterans both from abroad but also now on the ground in Britain has grown significantly,” he wrote.
“It is a sign of the new maturity and sophistication of al Qaeda in Britain that they have moved to this car bomb style campaign.”
Lord Stevens said anti-terrorist police and the domestic security agency MI5 would have to work hard to follow the links in the chain before more militants struck again.
“And make no mistake – strike again they will,” he wrote.
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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