Terrorist threat lowest since 9/11

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THE threat of an Al-Qaeda attack on Britain is lower than at any time since before the 9/11 attacks, MI5 has privately concluded.
Well-placed officials said there had been discussions in MI5 over the past month about whether to reduce the terrorist threat level from “severe” – where an attack is deemed highly likely – to “substantial”, where it is “a strong possibility”.
The assessment follows Operation Pathway, one of MI5’s biggest counterterrorist campaigns. It led to the arrest of 11 Pakistani men in April.
The men were released without charge. When no explosives or weapons were found, critics said the operation revealed the absence of any terrorist plot against the UK.



Although MI5 declined to comment, evidence of the perceived lower risk came last week when the US navy moored a warship, the Halyburton, in London.
“The Americans wouldn’t dream of [it] if the threat of an attack was high,” a security official said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6719189.ece

[Rakritia]

Well that's reassuring.

[lick]

They have no money to blow anything up cause of the reccesion

[Caution]

They're probably on their way to bomb us now you've posted that.

[Jackk]

there just waiting for us to reduce the threat level so they can strike when we least expect it.

[J0SH]

Yeah, wait till 2012 Olympics :eusa_whis

I don't see how it's lowered since 9/11, it wasn't that high in the first place. They clearly forgot about 7/7 then. :rolleyes:

[Jordy]

there just waiting for us to reduce the threat level so they can strike when we least expect it.

How would you know that? Are you friends with terrorists? Do they tell you their plans and calendars?

There's blatantly making things up and then there's this.

[Rakritia]

Said on the news its lowest since 7/7.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Good news it seems, although I suppose they could hit at any time. I know terrorists and so on go for big effects such as targeting airlines, but I have never understood why they don't target places such as airport terminals which they could easily walk into and kill a large number of people.

The most scary thought though is the thought that one day they could use biological weapons, far more scary and would provoke panic across the world, especially in the west.

[paul4wolves]

So how come there was a bomb in wolverhampton yesterday :/