I wrote way back about the terrorist now on trial in London and his confession as to the terrorist attacks he had planned for England and America. My opinion then was that he would find difficulty in organising these as a co-ordinated plan of attack and extreme problems in putting his plans into effect.
There were reporting restrictions on the trial of co-defendants but the media had these overturned. We (Joe Public) now know a fair bit more as to resources. All this has done for me is to reinforce my opinion that he is some Walter Mitty character. There is talk of advanced counter-surveillance techniques which were precautions rather than response to any threat he had actually seen. He sounds - to me - to be someone living the life.
What I do find worrying is the assessment of active terrorists living in UK. Just how many of these are sleepers waiting a call to arms and how many are engaged in plots we cannot know. If one of the aims for Iraq was to polarise Islamic warlike actions outside US and UK, it seems to have failed to live up to whatever expectations that POTUS and the self-appointed POTUK may have had.
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