What worries me is while the army are doing police work, who is dong the army work? Who is going to climb over fences and under pigeon wire? Who is going to strip a colleague naked, shave his bollocks, and write on his buttcheeks with a Sharpie? Who is going to make a nuisance of themselves on Colchester High Street on a Friday night? A lot of this important work will be left undone, and we will all be the poorer for it.
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More Dead Children. This time in Syria. 68 of them.
But this is OK they were fighting for Democracy
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It is totally cosmetic. Theresa needs to be strong and stable so she puts some troops on the streets. Not sure how that helps as they canât be everywhere and they canât stop lone nutters driving cars into people. Still, she has to be seen as being strong and stable and this is what strong and stable people do when they are trying to look strong and stable.
Thatâs fkn grim.
How is that trolling? Genuinely thatâs how I feel about those that voted Brexit.
Downvoted for another misinterpretation.
The correlation?
IS Gunmen active on the streets in a City in the Philippines this evening
Lunatics?
Really?
If you canât see it then I really do worry young Barry!
I said much the same last night but you dismissed it point blank, @nottarf-krap has said the same thing but much, much better in the MEN thread.
The west have been killing women and children indiscriminently for a long time, do you not think that, in the twisted logic of the extremists and jihadis, this is not fair reprisal?
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Really @chertsey-saint , really?
I sort of agree with the extra level of security, there has been precedence for it, and I think some are over reacting slightly but really?
But youâre presuming thatâs the reason for this?
It could be a hatred of the west?
It could be disaffected with the west?
It could be a religious war thatâs now propagated?
Why would ISIS be concerned about the West bombing some of their targets? Weâre all friends with the Saudis arenât we?
It would be a reprisal if we knew the reason and we donât it always seems the liberals throw that in there with a link to horrible deaths over there as if to level or weaken the western atrocity, why?
Why do that?
Pretty much, yeah. Effectively what the vote told me was the 52% of the country couldnât give a fuck about my kids, and the country theyâre going to grow up in. Voting for a 5 year government, and being called a Cunt for voting that way, and voting for a âforeverâ position when most of them wonât have to deal with the fall out, I know which I see as more cuntish behaviour.
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Obviously nothing is ever done in this part of the planet to fight potential problems
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have expressed their support to Bahrain as the island kingdom conducted a security operation to restore public order in a village that resulted in 286 arrests.
âThe security and stability of Bahrain are an integral part of the security and stability of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,â an official Saudi source said, quoted by Bahrain News Agency (BNA) late on Tuesday.
The source stressed âthe support of Saudi Arabia to the measures that Bahrain takes to protect security, stability and the safety of its citizens and residents, such as the latest taken by the Bahraini security agencies in the village of Duraz to protect public security and order and to tackle all terror attempts to undermine them.â
Dr Anwar Mohammad Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, welcomed the measures taken by Bahrain to extend the rule of law to the Duraz area.
"This is the normal situation. Pockets of chaos, terrorism, hiding weapons and harbouring criminals are an anomaly,â he posted on his Twitter account.
âWe, in the Arabian Gulf countries, cannot accept entities that run parallel to the state or consider their existence natural. Based on such a premise, we welcome the steps taken by our brothers in Bahrain.â
The minister added that âthrough the reactions of Iran and Hezbollah to the measures by the Kingdom of Bahrain, we recognise the sectarian and external nature of what was going on in Al Duraz. The masks have fallen and matters have become clear.â
Earlier, Bahrainâs interior ministry said that police were deployed on Monday morning on a targeted security operation to Al Duraz to safeguard public safety.
âDuring the operation, police authorities came under attack by members of a terrorist cell throwing fire bombs, metal rods, knives and axes forcing the security authorities to respond proportionately.â
âA total of 286 arrests were made, including fugitives that had escaped from Jau Prison. Several terrorists and convicted felons were also apprehended with a large number of them hiding in the residence of Eisa Qassim,â the statement said, referring to a prominent leader of the Shiite community whose citizenship revocation in June last year made his followers set up vigils in Al Duraz.
The ministry said that followers took advantage of the situation to erect road blocks and barricades that prevented the free movement of residents, stalled their interests and put their safety at risk.
âDuring the successful security operation, forces were able to remove a series of illegal road blocks and barricades and traffic in the area has returned to normal,â the ministry said.
âSecurity forces remain deployed in the area to ensure the safety of civilians, and call on all parents to ensure the safety of their children and immediately relay to the authorities any information they may have regarding illegal firearms or dangerous substances that could be used in acts of terror.â
And in the Philippines President Duterte has declared marshal law in the southern pprovince of Mindano one of the muslim strongholds in the Philippines.
Where the local Muslim population have been fighting for an Islamic state for the last 30 odd years.
A lot of people seem to have presumed that for a long time.
February 2003. Joint intelligence committee.
The threat from Al Qaida will increase at the onset of any military action against Iraq. They will target Coalition forces and other Western interests in the Middle East. Attacks against Western interests elsewhere are also likely, especially in the US and UK, for maximum impact. The worldwide threat from other Islamist terrorist groups and individuals will increase significantly.
Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of MI5 in 2003.
Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word ⌠a few among a generation ⌠[who] saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan, as being an attack on Islam. An increasing number of British-born individuals ⌠were attracted to the ideology of Usama Bin Laden and saw the Westâs activities in Iraq and Afghanistan as threatening their fellow religionists and the Muslim world. If British officials had read the JICâs warnings, Manningham-Buller said, they could âhave had no doubtâ that this was likely to happen.
Richard Shultz, Professor of international politics, 2004.
âA very senior [Special Operations Forces] officer who had served on the Joint Staff in the 1990s told me that more than once he heard terrorist strikes characterized as âa small price to pay for being a superpower.ââ
The victims of the Manchester bombing, among them an 8-year-old girl, are that small price.
Thatâs just from this one article. Link to Chilton in the article if you want more expert advice.
Just add all the others we have killed since Iraq and itâs hardly surprising.
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