MI5 chief: children are being taught to become terrorists
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 06 November 2007
The Independent. Telling one newspaper from the next is becomming as hard as telling one political party from the next. Trash mags are talking maddy today, as they do everyday but today the upper teir mags are talking child terrorists and foreign spies. My favorite topic!
Children as young as 15 are being groomed for terrorist acts in Britain by al-Qa’ida, the head of MI5 has warned.
Scare tactics. With underaged drinking, YOB/asbos/drug culture, the break down of family values and increased infiltration by the overly violent overly sexual American culture, Chilren as young as 6 are being turned into vicious killers and antisocial persons. Show one example of this and I can show you 1000 examples of my claim.
The timing of the speech by Jonathan Evans, 24 hours before the Government unveils its latest programme of anti-terror legislation, was seen by Labour MPs as part of a softening-up process for the extension of the detention of terrorist suspects without charge beyond the current limit of 28 days.
Shoulder to shoulder with American destruction of freedom and Habeus Corpus.
Mr Evans, the director general of the security service, used a Society of Editors conference to give a rare insight into the threat identified by MI5. He said the total number of people who pose a direct threat to national security has risen in the past year, and could be as high as 4,000.
While it is true, if you count rogue agencies, american spies, politicians and business men and it should be four times that amount.
Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, said last year that there were about 1,600|al-Qa’ida supporters in the UK who were actively engaged in terrorist activities and were known to the intelligence services but that figure had risen to about 2,000, said Mr Evans.
The figure almost doubled last week when they were flown in and given red carpet welcome by G B and QE II.
“We suspect that there are as many again that we don’t yet know of,” he said.
Nice round guestimated figures to hide the lack of facts and bring about a little quaking in the collective boots.
He highlighted the way that al-Qa’ida was targeting vulnerable young people as recruits, with teenagers as young as 15 and 16 years old having been implicated in terrorist plots.
Damn news people repeat the same thing 3 times in one article. Its a shame that Mr Evans hasnt said anything else worth printing.
“As I speak, terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country,” he said. “They are radicalising, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism.”
deja vu? no look up, its the same sentence reworded.
Terror plots were being directed from the tribal areas of Pakistan where al-Qa’ida’s “core leadership” is based, “often using young British citizens to mount the actual attack”.
Very nicely put word association, terror tribal pakistan (currently experiencing political unrest) al-Qa’ida —>young British citizens! thats the 4th time by the way, in one article.
“This campaign is dynamic and since my predecessor spoke last year, we have seen it evolve further,” said Mr Evans. “We are rightly concerned to protect children from exploitation in other areas. We need to do the same in relation to violent extremism.”
exploitation? like wars? like fear mongering? like consumerism? ok, ill shut up and pay my tax. protect me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The extension of the “al-Qa’ida brand” to new parts of the Middle East and other regions posed a further worrying threat, he added. There were signs that al-Qa’ida in Iraq was seeking to promote attacks outside that country while terrorist training and planning against the UK was being carried out in Somalia.
And who is doing this ‘branding’? (the goveorment and MI-5 perhaps?) people and countries with justifiable problems are branded al-Qa’ida in typical cognitive laziness.
Mr Evans said it was a matter of “some disappointment” that MI5 was still having to deal with “unreconstructed attempts” at spying by countries such as China and Russia, which still had the same number of undeclared intelligence officers in the UK as during the Cold War. “They are resources I would far rather devote to countering the threat from international terrorism – a threat to the whole international community, not just the UK.”
MI-5 and MI-6 have been hiring as well, french agencies, Shin Bet, CIA. Not to mention all the corporate spies and analysts.Spies and saboteurs are big business, stop complaining just get a bigger budget. Or does the govornment need to do more outsourcing?
Watch your job Mr Evans, some corporate cocksure will be playing spy games and advising the Gov if you dont buck up.
An anti-terror Bill will be included in the legislative programme to be unveiled with the Queen’s Speech today. A QC and leading voice on civil liberties on the Labour benches, Bob Marshall-Andrews said he suspected the timing of the speech was linked to the legislation. He will oppose an extension of detention beyond 28 days unless he heard hard evidence that it was necessary. “I have still heard nothing to change my mind,” he said.
Yes I think this was stated earlier in this column, and perhaps again in this same column.
Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister, has said the Government would prefer to extend detention without charge to 56 days.
The shadow Home Secretary David Davis hinted that the Opposition would not support an extension of the detention powers.
You dont dissapoint, Mr. Colin Brown. So to sum it all up, child terrorists, spies and the opposition wont support detaining innocent people for two months.
I could have said as much with far less words. But you get paid to say the same thing 4 times, if I do it they call it stuttering.
