Britain Spy Agency Tracking Terror Plots

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Britain Spy Agency Tracking Terror Plots

LONDON (AP) - British authorities are tracking almost 30 terrorist plots involving 1,600 suspects, the head of Britain's domestic spy agency said, adding that many of those under surveillance are homegrown terrorists plotting suicide attacks and other mass-casualty bombings.

Prime Minister Tony Blair backed his spy chief's assessment and warned that the terrorist threat facing Britain "will last a generation."

In a speech released by MI5 Friday, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said her agency had foiled five major plots since the July 2005 transit bomb attacks in London.

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Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said Manningham-Buller had given "a very sobering warning." He said, however, it was essential that "British Muslims are seen as a partner in the fight against terrorism and not some sort of community in need of mass medication."

"Holding a community responsible for the actions of a few would be counterproductive," Bunglawala said.

Is the first reaction always "We're not all bad!" Being "seen" as partners is equivalent to "we're doing enough."

Shouldn't it be: "We are willing to anything to help, including turning in our beloved children who happen to be misguided, and to stop donating money to clerics who abuse our religious tennets to further political aims of one dictator in favor of another in an country thousands of miles away."


BTW - if Iraq weren't a lighning rod for many terrorists, we'd be facing the same thing here.

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BTW - if Iraq weren't a lighning rod for many terrorists, we'd be facing the same thing here.

those potential hijackers this last summer must've been planning to blow up 16 planes headed towards iraq.