MI5 Head Warns al-Qaida Plans 'Mass-Casualty Attacks Against the West'

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l-Qaida militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets," the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday.

Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on a French satirical newspaper, MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned that a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely.

"A group of core al-Qaida terrorists in Syria is planning mass-casualty attacks against the West," Director General Parker said in a rare public speech at MI5 headquarters in London. His last public speech was in October 2013.

In the speech, planned before the killings in Paris, Parker said seasoned al-Qaida militants in Syria aimed to "cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets" in the West.

Al-Qaida killed nearly 3,000 people by attacking the United States with hijacked passenger planes on Sept. 11, 2001. Militants inspired by the group killed 52 commuters in London on July 7, 2005, with suicide bombs.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in 2011, and the threat posed by the network to the West seemed to recede in recent years.

But spies in Europe and the United States have been troubled that al-Qaida militants from Pakistan have appeared in war-torn Syria in what some intelligence analysts say could be part of a plot to mount a major attack against the West.

Thursday's stark warning from one of the West's most influential spymasters mirrors a growing concern among Western political leaders and their Arab allies about the threat from the cauldron of militant groups in Syria and Iraq.

Parker said that about 600 British extremists had traveled to Syria, many joining the militant group that calls itself Islamic State (ISIS) and has taken control of swathes of Iraq and Syria.

The group, an offshoot of al-Qaida, has beheaded two U.S. journalists and an American and two British aid workers in an effort to put pressure on a U.S.-led international coalition bombing its fighters in Syria.

ISIS militants in Syria are plotting attacks on Britain and making sophisticated use of social media to incite British nationals to carry out violence, Parker said.

MI5, established in 1909 to counter German espionage ahead of World War I, stopped three potentially deadly "terrorist plots" against the U.K in recent months, he said.

"We face a very serious level of threat that is complex to combat and unlikely to abate significantly for some time," said Parker, who has argued strongly for more surveillance powers to spy on militant communications on the Internet.

He said security services need to have access to such communications.

"My sharpest concern as director general of MI5 is the growing gap between the increasingly challenging threat and the decreasing availability of capabilities to address it," he said.

Twitter and Facebook are so important to militants that technology giants should give security services greater access to their networks, the head of Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency said last year.

"The dark places from where those who wish us harm can plot and plan are increasing," Parker said.

"We need to be able to access communications and obtain relevant data on those people when we have good reason."

Vetoing Bipartisan Energy, Job and Economic Growth

Paul Driessen / Townhall Columnist

 

New Republican members were still being sworn in and expressing their desire for bipartisan initiatives, when President Obama said he would veto the Keystone pipeline, ObamaCare fixes and other bills that run counter to his agenda. Washington’s new “common ground” will be a tricky, dangerous swamp.

Meanwhile, U.S. crude oil prices are below $50 per barrel, for the first time since 2009, and natural gas has dropped below $3 per million Btu (or thousand cubic feet).

That’s bad news for Iran, Russia, Venezuela and ISIS, but great news for energy users. Motorists will save billions of dollars in gasoline costs; families, factories, hospitals, schools and malls will save billions on heating and electricity bills; and industries that are energy-intensive or use hydrocarbons as raw materials will reap huge benefits.

However, drilling and oilfield service companies are being squeezed by high production rates, low prices and excessive loans; some overcapitalized companies may go bankrupt. Slow global economic growth is reducing demand for American goods and services, and investors are pulling out of “emerging markets.”

Thankfully, most fracking companies are agile and creative. Their technological innovations have driven completion and production costs steadily downward, allowing them to produce oil, gas liquids and natural gas (methane) from many formations at costs low enough to make a profit even at today’s prices (or lower). When demand picks up and prices again rise, companies can drill and frack new wells or reopen old ones in shale regions within mere weeks, to meet increasing energy needs.

But now EPA is proposing new rules for conventional and fracked wells. The White House claims the rules are needed to reduce emissions of methane, which it calls a “potent greenhouse gas” that contributes to “dangerous climate change.” The real goal is to put federal bureaucrats in charge of fracking and production on state and private lands, now that they have made most federal lands off limits to drilling.

The proposed rulemaking ignores reality. Total U.S. methane emissions have already plunged 11 percent since 1990, and companies constantly implement technologies and procedures to reduce emissions of valuable natural gas from wells and pipelines. That has caused emissions related to drilling and transportation to plummet, even as natural gas drilling, fracking, production, pipelining and use have skyrocketed.

British Intelligence: Al Qaeda Plotting Mass Attacks Against Western Targets

Guy Benson / Townhall Columnist

The severity and urgency of the threat may fluctuate, but it never goes away. Radical Islamists are intent on killing, and they'll do so anywhere they can -- from New York, to Boston, to DC, to Fort Hood, to Ottawa, to London, to Madrid, to Paris, to Brussels, to Mumbai, to China, to Syndey, to Bali, to all across the Middle East and Africa (including the latest horrific Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria).  Three of these monsters may lie dead in Paris today, but their twisted brethren are preparing to inflict more destruction on Western targets, warns Britain's M15 security service:

Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday. Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on a French satirical newspaper, MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely. "A group of core al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West," Director General Parker said in a rare public speech at MI5 headquarters in London. His last public speech was in October 2013. In the speech, planned before the killings in Paris, Parker said seasoned al Qaeda militants in Syria aimed to "cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets" in the West.

That bolded text reveals that this intel has been simmering for awhile, which reminds me of reports about a shadowy Syria-based Al Qaeda offshoot known as the "Khorasan Group."  Has the chatter about their devious handiwork gotten loud enough that M15 decided to go public and urge vigilance? 

 

It's terrifying, which is the whole idea.  And it's disspiritingly effective:

Reactions On Twitter To Attack On ‘Charlie Hebdo’ – Including Hashtags #Paris Is Burning, #Vengeance For [Insulting] Allah’s Messenger, #Lone Wolves Are Terrorizing France Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs More Muslim reactions to Charlie Hebdo slaughter. There millions of Muslims who are celebrating. But we are prohibited from addressing, recognizing, or acknowledging this brutal reality. Instead, our response in these escalating acts of jihad is to — congratulate and laud the Muslims who don’t want to kill us. What’s more depraved? Bloodlust sanctioned by a religious imperative or the West’s respect for this savagery? Not one major mainstream media publication ran those silly cartoons. The barbarians are at the gate and the left has flung open the doors. Online Jihad Supporters Celebrate Attack On Headquarters Of French Satirical Weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo’, January 7, 2015 Reactions On Twitter... Read the whole entry »       • Email to a friend • Article Search •

At least four hostages killed at Paris kosher supermarket besieged by Islamic jihadist

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

The jihadists killed the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists because they were blasphemers. They killed these people in the supermarket because they were Jews, the worst enemies of the Muslims according to the Qur’an (5:82).

“‘Hostages Killed’ In Paris Supermarket Siege,” Sky News, January 9, 2015

At least four hostages have been killed at the end of siege at a Paris supermarket involving a jihadist gunman.

Commandos launched an assault at the supermarket 20 minutes after explosions at a second siege on the outskirts of Paris.

Six explosions were heard at the supermarket in the east of Paris and several hostages were seen running from the store.

It was initially hoped that all hostages had been saved – but it has now been reported that a number have died.

The hostage-taker has also been killed, sources say. Two police officers were also hurt in the raid on the shop in Porte de Vincennes.

Sky’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt said: “After news came through of the situation Dammartin there seemed to be a sense of urgency here.

“We heard four very quick explosions that lasted between them seven seconds I suspect.”
There were another two explosions shortly afterwards.

Minutes later hostages were pictured being carried out, or running out, of the market – as sirens wailed across the city.

Sources reported that police managed to hack video surveillance at the market to keep a close eye on what was happening inside.

It is also understood that officers were secretly communicating by phone with one of the hostages.

The gunman at the Kosher store had threatened to kill the hostages if police moved in on two brothers holding another hostage in a print-works near Charles de Gaulle airport.

It is understood that police may have managed to close down communication between the two groups of hostage-takers.

Earlier, SWAT teams were seen surrounding the Hyper Cacher kosher store.
Israeli TV said a six-month old baby and the baby’s mother were among those held captive.

A police officer told Sky News that the siege began when a gunman went in the supermarket and started shooting immediately.

According to the AP news agency, which quoted a police source, the gunman said “You know who I am” as he opened fire inside.

The hostage taker is believed to be one of the suspects who killed a policewoman in Montrouge, southern Paris, on Thursday….

Video: Robert Spencer on Hannity on Sharia No-Go Zones in France and the Charlie Hebdo jihadists

Charlie Hebdo jihad mass murderers and kosher bakery jihadist killed, hostages killed also

 

Op-ed:
Defeating Islam Starts With the Truth                      By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen (RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS)

Let's start with the bottom line...what happened in Paris will happen here we just do NOT know exactly when and where. And it will happen because we have a president who caters to, acquiesces to, and condones the actions of those out to kill us all. Remember, Barack HUSSEIN Obama while sometimes using the word 'terrorism' refuses to call the majority of the vast acts of terrorism what they really are...islamic terrorism...because he dare NOT offend his own chosen ideology.

Now lets cut to the chase and tell a truth that few want to hear...islam wants war with the west so lets give it to them and end this once and for all. Remember, islam is NOT a religion so perish the thought that we are waging war on the religion of islam for islam is an ideology, a political cult if you will, and has NOTHING to do with God for allah is but a made-up deity of a perverted pedophile called mohammed.

Simply, this would be a war of civilization against the barbaric.

And this is key because one must understand that NO matter how some want you to believe that radical islam and islam itself are two totally different entities NOTHING could be further from the truth. In fact, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, a muslim leader in his own right, said, “Islam cannot be classified as moderate or not…These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

In other words, according to Erdogan, our main stream media and our political leaders are actually insulting the ideology of islam by trying to put what they call 'moderate' muslims on some sort of pedestal. Taking this a step further, our liberal press and the appeasers of islam within our own government constantly speak of being tolerant towards and coexisting with islam. So if simply being referred to as 'moderates' is insulting to their ideology consider this, islam as an ideology of hate and murder wants neither to be tolerated nor coexisted with as their ideology is centered around their goal of dominating the world.

And NO matter how our media and our western leaders try to claim that islam and radical islam are two separate entities their constant rhetoric to that affect has caused us to somewhat look away to and somewhat accept islam's barbaric acts and has actually allowed those acts to NOT only continue but to increase and spread worldwide.

But sometimes an act of barbarism does NOT come with the sword but comes instead with indoctrination into the culture of the ideology of islam by the ignorant and easily swayed.

And here is where we in America have allowed islam to creep into our culture. Thanks to the liberal left part of the problem we face is that islam is now being taught in our public schools while anti-sharia laws are being overturned by the actions of the likes of the ACLU. Yet Christianity and Judaism cannot be taught but the ideology of islam can be thus allowing young minds to become more susceptible to and accepting of islam as their possible future. All done without raising a sword in battle.

In the cold war between the cultures of the civilized and the barbaric 'open-minded’ liberals, too ignorant of the true nature of islam, are knowingly aiding and abetting the barbaric enemy. 

Therefore, knowing the true intentions of the ideology of islam and knowing too what offends them…tolerance…appeasement…labeling any part of their ideology as moderate...along with any notion that coexisting with their ideology is possible… it seems the only way NOT to insult islam is to accept their open and often reiterated invitation to go to war against them.

This should NOT be construed as any sort of promotion of genocide however, as those countries that want them are welcome to them, but they should be aware that harboring the practitioners of islam or being controlled by the ideology of islam will put them on America's 'Enemy Watch List.'

Let the barbarians do to each other whatever they want within the confines of their ideological map-drawn borders, but stray from those borders and be met with decisive force from the civilized Western world.

And the Western world includes Israel, the sentinel against all the vileness the ideology of islam is trying to impose on us. Without Israel standing between us and them there would be NO us...there would only be them. Israel, whom Obama tries to stab in the back every chance he gets, knows well the enemy in ways that we do NOT for the enemy is on their borders...the enemy surrounds them...yet they are still there. And why...because the enemy knows that if Israel is seriously attacked it will be over NOT for Israel but for them for Israel's very survival depends on their repelling the enemy at all costs, for truth be told if Israel falls the West falls with her.

Also remember, the ideology of islam is NOT that different from the ideology of Nazi Germany for islam, like mid-twentieth century Germany, is all about extermination of those who do NOT bow to their ways...do NOT succumb to their ideas of perfection...and who will NOT willfully be indoctrinated...be brainwashed...be controlled by those who are NOTHING but throwbacks to the 7th century. 

Now let's be clear...islam...all of islam...is vile, barbaric, and bloodthirsty and the followers of islam will stop at NOTHING to bring the West to its knees. Many atrocities have been committed in the name of islam but since 9/11 most have happened 'over there' NOT really touching the West directly...that is until this past Wednesday when hell burst through the doors of a satirical French magazine called Charlie Hebdo.

And all over simple cartoons for the ideology of islam demands the criticism and mocking of Christianity and Judaism but dare to criticize, mock, or even depict a perceived imagine of mohammed and know that blood...and lots of it...will be spilled. And spilled it was on Wednesday when savages cut short the lives of 12 people over a cartoon. But thankfully, the French police did what America's doctrine of political correctness would NEVER allow...they hunted down the killers like the animals they are and took them out less than 48-hours after innocent blood was spilled, and they did so with NO apologies given. And the French people stood strong and united together with the police against those spewed from the very bowels of hell.

And as the smoke clears and facts start to surface one fact must be known whether Obama likes it or NOT...this was NO 'lone wolf' attack. Carefully planned and executed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives, those assassinated on Wednesday were targeted by al-Qaeda's leadership for what they perceived as defaming their revered prophet.

In fact, an al-Qaeda member on Friday provided to The Associated Press a statement in English saying "the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully."

Chosen their target carefully as well as choosing, we believe, a way to actually deflect what was done away from them for what was an act of terror meant to bring France to its knees has, it seems for the moment, backfired on the entirety of the islamic terrorist network. Rather than cower and offer more appeasement to islam…the people of France have boldly struck back...or did they?

On Thursday, just 24-hours after three islamic terrorists assassinated the12 people including two police officers…three concussion type grenades were thrown at a mosque in the city of Le Mans just west of Paris…shots were fired into a mosque in the district of Port-la-Nouvelle near Narbonne in southern France...and a bomb was detonated outside a kebab shop next door to a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone.

But what seems suspicious is that in each of these events…the grenades…the shots fired...and the bombing…nobody was injured.

Nobody...absolutely NOT one drop of blood was shed.

So could this be a thinly disguised attempt by islamists to gain sympathy after Wednesday's horrific acts...you cannot put anything past folks as vile and barbaric as this.

In fact, just this past Thursday, Director General Andrew Parker of Britain's MI5, said al-Qaeda militants in Syria are planning an attack on the West, aimed at inflicting mass casualties on transportation systems or at “iconic targets.”

And what major iconic event if you will is coming up within the next few weeks and watched by millions worldwide...the Super Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona on February 1st. What better way to send a message to the world then to try and bring America to its knees.

Nonetheless, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre the French people stood up and took to the streets amid the highest possible terror threat levels enacted by their government. The people of France, it seems, have had enough and they are, for now, willing to stand as one against islam and its ideology of death. Just as the civilized world stood and defeated the Nazis, it must happen again and bring the 1300-year long genocidal agenda of islam to an end.

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Today, January 10th, on RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on CPR Worldwide Media from 11am to 1pm EST, Craig and Diane will discuss the Paris massacre and its ramifications as well as all things islam, including some things that many on the left do NOT want to hear.

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