- The Independent on Sunday, 13 August 2006
There is something wrong with the Government's version of our stunning success in thwarting the planned terrorist attack on aircraft bound from Britain to the United States, bombings that would have "caused loss of life on an unprecedented scale". We are told that, thanks to the brilliance of our anti-terrorist forces, we have avoided another 9/11. Apparently faced with a bombing attack on a number of transatlantic aircraft, "part of the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of the Second World War" (our Home Secretary, John Reid's, words), we have rounded up the "main players" just in time, and they are all in custody. [more...]
- The Daily Mail, 10 August 2006
There comes a time in every anti-terrorist operation for a decision dreaded by every officer involved: Is this the moment to strike? Ideally, an investigation should run as long as possible. No officer, no matter how experienced, can tell for certain that every angle has been covered, every possibility for gathering intelligence has been exploited, and every fragment of evidence has been noted and catalogued. But these imperatives have to be balanced against the most important one of all - are the terrorists about to attack? [more...]
- The Bulletin, 7 September 2005
It is four years since President Bush declared a global war on terror so it is fair to ask: how is it going? Well, the first point to make is that it is not a war on terror anymore. One of Washington’s sneakier tactics is that if a crucial policy begins to lose public support, you don’t change the policy, you just change its name and carry on. So it is no longer the war on terror. It is the "global struggle against violent extremists". [more...]
- The Independent on Sunday, 8 August 2004
There are no tanks at Heathrow - yet. There is no ring of troops around London’s financial district - yet. But Britain is on a "heightened" state of alert as police at Paddington Green station continue to question terrorist suspects arrested at gunpoint in raids across the country earlier in the week. [more...]
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President Bush has decided to let the CIA off the leash. He has given it an extra $1 billion and told it that it is no longer banned from assassinating America's enemies, including Osama bin Laden and members of his terrorist networks. [more...]
- 29 September 2001
If you were Usama bin Laden today where would you be and what would you be doing? With the mightest power the world has ever known on your case, assisted by most of its allies - except New Zealand - where would you hide out? [more...]
- 15 September 2001
Five years ago Hollywood produced a spate of movies about attacks on earth by aliens from other planets. The most extreme of these films was "Independence Day". In it alien space ships station themselves over every major city on earth and then blast them to pieces [more...]
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