Apparently Al-Qaeda likes the Easter holiday, although I doubt you’ll see them at a sunrise service on Sunday. Well, maybe a sunrise service of sorts. One in which the congregation sings ‘Allah Aqbar’ to the music of ‘Christ the Lord is Risen Today’. From the UK Telegraph:
An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an “Easter spectacular” of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe.
Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the arrests of 12 men in the north west of England on Wednesday were linked to a suspected plan to launch a devastating attack this weekend.
Some of the suspects were watched by MI5 agents as they filmed themselves outside the Trafford Centre on the edge of Manchester, the Arndale Centre in the city centre, and the nearby St Ann’s Square.
Nice to know that MI5 is on the case, no thanks to a certain knucklehead in the government.
A plan to arrest the suspects in a series of co-ordinated raids yesterday morning had to be hastily brought forward to Wednesday afternoon after the country’s most senior anti-terrorism officer, Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick, of the Metropolitan Police, was photographed going into Downing Street carrying a briefing paper with top secret details of Operation Pathway in full view.
Yesterday morning, Mr Quick resigned after he was told by the Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, that he had lost her confidence and that of MI5.
As a result of his blunder, hundreds of police officers had to be scrambled to arrest the suspects, who were being monitored round the clock.
Meanwhile, four London metro police officers have come forward in connection with possible misconduct in the death of a bystander walking home from work in the vicinity of the G-20 protests last week. As the home video shows, the man was minding his own business when he was pushed to the ground, and later beaten with batons. He later died of a heart attack.
Strange, isn’t it, that British police can show such ‘sensitivity’ to certain violent religious groups while assaulting innocent bystanders?
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