False Flag Terrorist Attack imminent in U.K.

March 24, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

Terror attack ‘highly likely’

The Home Secretary has warned that a terrorist attack on the UK is “highly likely and could happen, without warning, at any time”.

Unveiling the Government’s anti-terror strategy, Contest 2, Jacqui Smith also said that shopping centre and store managers will be among 60,000 workers trained to help deal with terrorist threats.

Ms Smith said the “widest range” of people needed to be enlisted.

She said terrorism can not simply be tackled from Whitehall and people needed to be “vigilant about the threat of an attack” and to prepare for “what to do” in the event of an atrocity.

“I don’t think tackling terrorism is something we can solely depend on the police and our security and intelligence agencies to do – brilliant though they are,” she said. “I think we need to enlist the widest range of people to do that.”

She identified “shopping centre managers, store managers, people who were responsible for the security in those areas” as being key in the battle against terror.

“We need to keep thinking about the way the threat is developing and we need to keep evolving the way which we are dealing with that.”

Ms Smith said the threat of an attack was “severe” and mainly came from the al-Qaeda leadership and their immediate “associates”.

Ms Smith told MPs that over a dozen attempted terrorist plots have been disrupted and the published strategy was “comprehensive and wide ranging”.

She said its primary aim was to “reassure the public that we are doing all in our power to protect this country through our relentless pursuit of terrorists and our determination to prevent violent extremism”.

Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said that all sides of the House shared the same goal of defeating terrorism and Conservatives would be “constructive critics” of the Government’s plans.

Ms Smith said the threat of an attack, ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders in London next month, had been set at “severe”.

“The overall threat assessment, which is set independently, about the likelihood of an attack, G20 aside, is set at severe, which means a threat is highly likely,” she said. “It could happen without warning.

Contest 2 has been billed as the most comprehensive approach to tackling the threat by any government in the world.

Experts spent a year preparing the document to take into account lessons learnt from recent terror outrages, such as the attacks on hotels in Mumbai last year.

By 2011, Britain will be spending £3.5 billion a year on counter-terrorism. The number of police deployed on counter-terror work has risen since 2003 from 1,700 to 3,000, while the security service MI5 has doubled in size over the same period.

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