Britain's New Leadership Fails To Prevent Terrorism, Threatens America:
(Part One of Four)
By Adrian Morgan
(Part One of Four)
By Adrian Morgan
"Those who cure you are going to kill you."
On 27 June 2007, Britain gained a new Prime Minister. Gordon Brown had been the Chancellor since May 1997, while Tony Blair led the nation. After a six week transition period Brown became the premier, with no election mandate from the British public. Two days after Brown took the reins of power, a terror crisis involving car bombs erupted. The premier and his newly-appointed home secretary Jacqui Smith initially dealt with the situation calmly, appearing to be in control of the situation. Now, after a fortnight of the new regime, massive flaws in Britain's security and ability to tackle terrorism have been revealed. As Brown was an integral part of Blair's government, he cannot escape blame for these security lapses and policy failures.
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Such measures may avoid hurting the feelings of the majority of Muslims who do not support terrorism, yet do little to inspire confidence for the future. When Al Qaeda and other terrorists are motivated entirely by Islam, such sensitivity is an obstacle to tackling the root causes of Islamist terrorism. As I will explain in Part Two, such politically correct sensitivity is one of the main factors which now make Britain so vulnerable to Islamist terror attack. Britain's unrealistic approach to tackling extremism already poses a threat to US security.
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Britain's New Leadership Fails To Prevent Terrorism, Threatens America:
(Part Two of Four)
By Adrian Morgan
As an island, Britain's lack of shared borders has meant that, for 1,000 years, it has avoided invasion. Those borders are now seen to be porous, and people can enter Britain with ease. Amongst those are people who wish to destroy the nation. The case of the three car bombs from June 29-30, apparently plotted by doctors who had arrived to work in the health service, once again brought up questions of border security. Several of the car bomb suspects were said to have been identified by MI5 as potential terrorists, but no action had been taken to remove them from Britain's shores.
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A week after the failed car bomb attacks, the Daily Mail revealed that up to eight police officers are employed in Britain, who are suspected by MI5 of links to Islamic extremism. Some are thought to have undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan. One officer, employed in the south east of England, had been using the internet to distribute videos of captives being beheaded, and of roadside bombings in Iraq. He has not been dismissed from his post.
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Britain's New Leadership Fails To Prevent Terrorism, Threatens America:
(Part Three of Four)
By Adrian Morgan
In Part Two, the situation of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers was discussed in relation to terror. A quarter of all terror arrests between September 2001 and September 2005 involved asylum seekers. Illegal immigrants are an unknown factor in Britain's demography, who number from 570,000 to 870,000. The Institute for Public Policy Research has recently argued that Britain should offer an amnesty to illegal immigrants. Since September 2006, fingerprinting of visa and asylum applicants has taken place. Of 150 countries intended to be involved in supporting this "biometric" validation scheme, only 80 are currently taking part.
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The scale of extremism within a section of Britain's homegrown Muslim community is now emerging as something far bigger than formerly acknowledged. Gordon Brown, after the car bomb plots in London and Glasgow, has tried to appear "tough" on terrorism, but as I will show in the final part of this article, he himself has connived with some of the shoddy policies which have allowed British terrorism to reach its current position.
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Britain's New Leadership Fails To Prevent Terrorism, Threatens America:
(Part Four of Four)
By Adrian Morgan
In Part One I mentioned that Dr. Bilal Abdulla, who was in the car bomb attack upon Glasgow airport on June 30, was allegedly connected to the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. This group, founded in Jerusalem in 1953, aims to establish a Caliphate or Islamic super-state. Expressly anti-Semitic, Hizb aims to destroy democracy. Tony Blair said in August 2005 that he wished to ban the group, but never followed through on his pledge.
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I have written extensively on FamilySecurityMatters.org about how Britain's failure to combat its Islamist radicalism poses a very real threat to the U.S. New prime minister Gordon Brown has been forced by recent circumstances to sound "tough" on terrorism. He has been a leading figure in Blair's government for 10 years. The Labour party used to have a slogan - "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime," which it abandoned when crime figures rocketed. Brown may talk tough on terrorism, but unless he tackles the root causes of terrorism - the extremists who have preached unhindered for a decade on Britain's soil - Britain will remain a haven for terrorists.
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