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2007-07-04 Fifth Column

The Car Bomb Jihad: Is Britain seeing clearly?

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Posted by 3dc 2007-07-04 05:07|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Britain

#1 On why the Brits have such dense CCTV coverage ...
But when one wonders why the dense surveillance is so extended one realize that Britain had to develop an extreme system of monitoring because it was forbidden to be preemptive in the war. Over the years, authorities were pressured by lobbies not to engage the Jihadists "before" they become terrorists and before they strike. So resources were reverted to spy on the Jihadis (and other terrorists) "after" they attack but not before: Another result of the initial shortcoming in the perception of the "enemy." The U.S. is under similar pressure by its own internal critics to follow the same path: Do not monitor the Jihadists before but only after they have engaged in terror action.

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-04 07:35|| 2007-07-04 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "Do not monitor the Jihadists before but only after they have engaged in terror action."

Monitoring through a sniper scope (followed by trigger squeeze) wouldn't be ideal, but at least it would limit repeat offenders and trial and prison costs.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-07-04 10:33|| 2007-07-04 10:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought the CCTV net was due to the IRA...

Posted by Pappy 2007-07-04 13:49|| 2007-07-04 13:49|| Front Page Top

#4 The Brits said they were monitoring the doctors prior to their attempt at blowing up things. This a case of covering your ass as well as being dangerously delusional. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" to use an old medical bromide.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-04 13:59|| 2007-07-04 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 "Do not monitor the Jihadists before but only after they have engaged in terror action."

This is a recipe for suicide. Abandon the tempo in chess then stick only with reactive moves and see how many games you win.

There is no way an open and free society can adequately protect itself against Islamic terrorism. Muslims are inculcated with the terrorist mentality from birth andeven when not inclined towards itare socially ingrained not to report against their co-religionists. This creates a tacit or overt support network that is nearly impossible to thwart.

Terrorism runs in families and hoping that law enforcement can break those bonds of secrecy is beyond futile. Language barriers, financial assistance (halawa), religious fraternities and one of the most ingrown cultures on earth all militate against legal intervention. You may as well dig ditches with a surfboard.

Deportation and recongregation of Muslims in their countries of origin represents one of the only humane methods of removing this threat to the civilized world.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-04 14:45|| 2007-07-04 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Zenster, that's a good FIRST step, but when they invade ciovilisation, we should consider removing the mosques.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-07-04 15:29|| 2007-07-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Zenster, that's a good FIRST step, but when they invade ciovilisation, we should consider removing the mosques.

As I've mentioned before: Give the MME (Muslim Middle East) less than five years to institute freedom of religion. If they do not, ban Islam and shutter all mosques on Western soil. The lack of reciprocity we endure when dealing with Islam is not just unfair, it is pure idiocy upon our parts.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-04 15:43|| 2007-07-04 15:43|| Front Page Top

#8 The tipping point in the UK should have come by now. Sadly, they suffer from multiple streams of social debilitation: they are disarmed, over governed, cursed with the vestiges of colonial guilt and the world-wide foolishness of political correctness run amuck, and intellectually cowed by the secular progresive and moral relativistic thinking of modern western "intellectuals". It falls to them to lead western European civilization out of this morass and I just doubt they are up to it. Another decade of cultural invasion and they will be lost for all time I fear.
The civilizing effects of western civilization are being overrun by the progeny of this moon-cult, literally swamping the civilization.
America had better awaken to this pattern while we still have time....
personally, I'm buying land in Idaho, leaving California and thinking about more ammunition for the EM2C....

Posted by JustAboutEnough 2007-07-04 16:13|| 2007-07-04 16:13|| Front Page Top

#9 The fault does not reside in the UK, but in elitism. Were the decision makers to live among the immigrants in London or Houston, they would see the reality of the problem. To the elites, different religions or different nationalities are like different hair color. The elites know only that they are above the fray and they assume the lowlifes are similar enough to coexists without great difficulty.

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-04 16:41|| 2007-07-04 16:41|| Front Page Top

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