Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of Britain's security service MI5, attends a speech on national security by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, unseen, at the Royal United Services Institute in London, Monday Feb. 13, 2006. Brown defended the Government's proposed introduction of identity cards insisting that they would help disrupt terrorists and criminals travelling on stolen identities as well as helping tackle identity fraud.
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Fear Has Great Britain’s Eyes
// Intelligence service reported un unprecedented level of terrorism threat
British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke on Friday, with the most serious warning about the threat of Islamic extremism during the entire time of his premiership. M15 head Eliza Manningham-Buller said that special services investigate the activities of over 200 terrorist organizations that might use chemical, bacteriologic, and nuclear weapons. London believes the most dangerous trend is that terrorist organizations’ members are younger and younger. More and more young people who were born and grew up in GB enter those organizations.
Last Friday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair talked to his New Zealand counterpart Helen Clark. He was supposed to speak of London-Wellington cooperation, but instead devoted most of his speech to the subject of Islamic terrorists in Great Britain.
Blair’s speech was provoked by M15 head Eliza Manningham-Buller’s report on terrorism threat. Head of M15 since 2002, Manningham-Buller seldom appears in public. That is why her report was taken as ominous.
Manningham-Buller began with frightening numbers: “My officers, assisted by police, investigate over 200 terrorist groupings which include more than 1,600 members.” “Several conspiracies to kill British citizens and destroy the economy are being plotted now. We know of 30 terrorism acts which are being prepared now.”
The chief threat, according to the report, is that more and more young British people from Muslim families become involved in terrorism. Manningham-Buller believes that Islamic youths in Great Britain become so obsessed with the teachings of fundamentalism and extremism due to the “skillful interpretation of our entire foreign policy is the suppression of Muslims, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq, although terrorism threat had existed even before September 11.”
Council of Muslims of Great Britain hurried to make their statements after Tony Blair’s speech. They said it is “extremely useless to lay the blame for the actions of several people onto the entire community”. Islamic Human Rights Committee chair Masud Shadyareh said “the real threat exists, but M15 head’s words about a possible nuclear attack from Muslims will increase paranoia and hysteria, but not security, in the society.”
Alexander Gabuev
All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 13, 2006
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