UK facing most severe terror threat ever, warns MI5 chief

[Ransom]

Britain is facing its most severe ever terrorist threat and fresh attacks in the country are inevitable, according to the head of Britain’s normally secretive domestic intelligence service in a rare public speech.
Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, said the UK had seen “a dramatic upshift in the threat” from Islamist terrorism this year, reflecting attacks that have taken place in Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge.
The spy chief said: “That threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.”
He added: “It’s at the highest tempo I have seen in my 34-year career. Today there is more terrorist activity, coming at us more quickly, and it can be harder to detect.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...r-mi5-islamist

Oh look, @donttread, another government official most concerned about terror attacks....."boogieman attacks" as you put it.

Parker claiming the threat is "multi-dimensional", that attacks in Britain are "inevitable" and sooner rather than later.

In other words, we're gonna wake up one morning or turn on the tv one afternoon.....and we're going to see another tragedy playing out. More deaths due to boogiemen.

I wonder....if it's the hated US government........no one really pays attention....if it's the Brits......does it make a difference. Will people finally wake up to these horrors?

We Neocons of course.....would like nothing less than the invasion, occupation, and nation building in England as soon as possible. Start with that silly ferris wheel looking carnival ride on the river Thames.......kaboom.

Any......thoughts from our rocket scientists?

[Ethereal]

Maybe if their partners in crime, MI6, weren't in the business of arming, funding, and training terrorists, there would be less terrorist threats. Just a thought.

In any case, the national security states in both the USA and the UK are just using the exaggerated and largely manufactured threat of terrorism to justify their own accumulation of power and funding. Put another way, promoting paranoia is a form of job security for agencies like MI5. By keeping the population as fearful as possible, people are more likely to surrender their liberty in exchange for the promise of security. The last thing that agencies like MI5 want is for the fraudulent "war on terror" to end because they would have no way to justify their current position in society.

[Refugee]

Ethreal is right in a way, it’s often overplayed and exaggerated, but everyone knows already another terrorist attack is on it’s way. MI5 by the way were there long before the current wave of Muslim bombings. You get what you vote for. You want a do your own thing, multicultural, open borders society, you get what it produces. Like lambs to the slaughter, I don’t think the statement will raise any eyebrows in the UK.

[Peter1469]

Brexit will make them safer. But, they have too many Islamists inside the wire already.

[MisterVeritis]

Brexit will make them safer. But, they have too many Islamists inside the wire already.

The Brits have plenty of ocean about.

[donttread]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...r-mi5-islamist

Oh look, @donttread, another government official most concerned about terror attacks....."boogieman attacks" as you put it.

Parker claiming the threat is "multi-dimensional", that attacks in Britain are "inevitable" and sooner rather than later.

In other words, we're gonna wake up one morning or turn on the tv one afternoon.....and we're going to see another tragedy playing out. More deaths due to boogiemen.

I wonder....if it's the hated US government........no one really pays attention....if it's the Brits......does it make a difference. Will people finally wake up to these horrors?

We Neocons of course.....would like nothing less than the invasion, occupation, and nation building in England as soon as possible. Start with that silly ferris wheel looking carnival ride on the river Thames.......kaboom.

Any......thoughts from our rocket scientists?

@Ransom

1) I don't think I ever used the phrase "boggieman" attacks
2) Why don't you $#@!ing wait util something actually happens/
3) This generation of terrorist was largely recruitable because of the West actions in the ME so you are proving my point for me.
4) Go read youe favorite book "war and war". Then apply 100 year old strategies and explainations to modern power struggles. Do you have little army men you move around to simulate great death battles of the past?
Most of us got rid of those around 9 but you maybe not. in your case.
Terrorism as it exist today is and has been perpetuated by the $#@!ing war on terror. How can you not see that. ? For example, the fact that we left Iraq is not the problem, the fact that we invaded and occupied them to begin with is the problem. Neocons world wide ARE the problem . When you deal death, especially to civilians people will find a way, no matter how crude or unjust , to deal death back.
This isn't a game and it cannot be won.

But the people you worship know that this is a never ending cycle and they use that to feed the global military indiustrial complex and hide our shattered economy. To do so they use you and those like you as tools.

[Ransom]

1) You considered the threat ISIS posed these United States as a made up boogieman created for the benefit of the defense industry. Don't shrink from your record here, Sir.
2) I'm bringing you a link from British intelligence service MI5. Why doesn't Parker wait until something actually happens and then, how stupid would that be?
3) West action= support for Israel and the policies of sanction, blockade, and containment against Iraq following the Gulf War that you supported.
4) This indeed isn't a game. The threat was never a boogieman, nor is this MI5 making things up as you claimed US intelligence was.
5) I don't think it's fair you ignore my book suggestion and then offer one of your own. Please read Undaunted Courage and then I'll consider your pop up suggestion.

[Kacper]

The more alienated immigrants feel from the society around them, the more likely they are to carry out a terror attack. It is no different than school shootings. You don't hear of the captain of the football team opening up on his classmates. It is always the maladjusted freaks and geeks.

[Peter1469]

The more alienated immigrants feel from the society around them, the more likely they are to carry out a terror attack. It is no different than school shootings. You don't hear of the captain of the football team opening up on his classmates. It is always the maladjusted freaks and geeks.

Expel the freaks. Send them back to the ME and NA.

[donttread]

1) You considered the threat ISIS posed these United States as a made up boogieman created for the benefit of the defense industry. Don't shrink from your record here, Sir.
2) I'm bringing you a link from British intelligence service MI5. Why doesn't Parker wait until something actually happens and then, how stupid would that be?
3) West action= support for Israel and the policies of sanction, blockade, and containment against Iraq following the Gulf War that you supported.
4) This indeed isn't a game. The threat was never a boogieman, nor is this MI5 making things up as you claimed US intelligence was.
5) I don't think it's fair you ignore my book suggestion and then offer one of your own. Please read Undaunted Courage and then I'll consider your pop up suggestion.

1) I'm not shrinking away from anything I'm just not letting you twist my words like you are want to do.

The rest of it is fuking babble, even from you. The west rape of the ME led to terrorism and our war on terror led to ISIS. Not our failure to occupy the whole area as you would suggest. We took some bat $#@! cray, mean $#@!s and chose to $#@! with them at every opportunity and then when the $#@! hits the fan war hawks like you yell for us to $#@! with them somemore! Wouldn't it have been a whole lot smarter, easier and less deadly to just put all those war/world policing efforts and dollars into developing better alternate energy? Instead we have let China beat us to the punch and all we have to show for it is death , destruction and corporate glory!
What's next oh neocon king? Sould we attack China because they are kicking our ass at the production of solar energy?
Drone bombing kids in allied territory comes to mind as one particularly bad idea ampng many.
Do you listen to yourself? You support wholesale intervention and your solution for the predictable resistence is MORE wholesale intervention creating more resisitence , etc. The neocon plan that has ruled policy t=in the ME for decades with predictble results.