British security officials on alert for Olympic terror threats
By Dan Rivers and Jonathan Wald reporting from London
News that European intelligence agencies are searching for a so-called "clean-skin" al Qaeda operative with a European passport should not be surprising.
It has long been the ultimate terrorist weapon: a convert with no previous convictions, who is not "on the radar" of intelligence agencies. Yemen is currently a go-to destination for young Jihadis and al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula seeks to host clean-skins as it continues to attempt to attack the West. But there is no suggestion that this alleged plot is connected to the Olympics and the perpetrators may already have put their plans on hold, worried they are about to be discovered amid widespread news coverage.
The only tangential connection to Olympics is simply it may have happened in the same year as the games. But with Britain currently experiencing a credible terrorist plot about once a year, according to a recent speech by Jonathan Evans, the director general of Britain's domestic security service MI5, it's likely the authorities will uncover a plot involving Britain at some point in 2012, according to some experts.
In fact, it's understood MI5 is prepared for a doubling of leads in the run-up to the games. Why? Because analysts will be less inclined to dismiss minor threats, because of the magnitude of the event and are being even more cautious than normal, no matter how remote the possibility of a credible threat.
This heightened vigilance creates more leads, which are passed up the chain of command. In addition, security experts say more members of the public may talk about carrying out an attack during the Olympics, while having no intention of doing so. As a result, this "idle chatter" gets picked by up by Britain's surveillance centre GCHQ in Cheltenham, creating even more paperwork.
It's understood MI5 is already completely focused on the Olympic games, shutting down non-essential training to ensure it has as many personnel as possible watching for threats. There are a number of areas from which that threat could emerge. Al Qaeda is the most obvious, but there are others. The Irish Republican threat, from splinter groups like the Real IRA, remains in the UK, although an Irish Republican attack on the Olympic games is considered unlikely, because of the bad PR it would create. The devastating bomb in Omagh in 1998 is often cited as an example of a republican terrorist atrocity that was so horrific it alienated some who may have been otherwise sympathetic to their cause. More likely is a hoax bomb threat from the Real IRA, which would cause disruption without fatalities.
There is also the risk of other foreign terrorist groups bringing their domestic disputes to the UK, like the Palestinian Black September Group did at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when they kidnapped Israeli athletes.
But the world's intelligence services will be descending on London to try and prevent any terrorists from carrying out an attack. The Olympic Intelligence Centre will provide analysis of threats to visiting security officials from countries competing at the games - it's fair to say there will be more people watching for threats this summer than at any other time in recent British history and therefore if you're a terrorist, you've got more chance of being caught. That doesn't mean an attack is impossible, but the British authorities are confident they are doing everything they can to make an attack much more difficult to carry out.
As MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans points out, "You could say that we are near to reaching a form of stalemate - they haven't stopped trying but we have got better at stopping them. That is normally as much as security on its own can achieve."
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What a racist comment "Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula seeks to host clean-skins as it continues to attempt to attack the West"
We must wipe the earth of this ideology!
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Cheers for this feed of hatred CNN – All you've ever done is exacerbate situations and put f****** idiots on television. Please delete this thread if you have any humanity!!!!! (I'm English and speaking to an American company so it's best I tell you that the first sentence was sarcasm)
All the racist comments on here are exactly what is fuelling this controversy – YOU are the problem! Keep religion personal and eradicate racism and the Illuminati ...
anyone else tired of these boring and ultimately wasteful displays of 'bread and circuses', not to mention the millions their spending to 'protect' this event (not like coca-cola or mcdonalds sponsors are gunna pay-up) ps. Hitler invented the Olympic rings symbol, not to mention, he started the whole torch-bearing ceremony... to prove Germany's superiority. people are complaining the the logo for the 2012 games spells out ZION, which, really, wouldn't surprise me in the least.
@saeed and your people wonder why we hate you....? Lolol oh gaddd bless ya!
The Brits will have that place wrapped up tighter than a tick. They put all of London under sensors and camera lenses ten years ago. Imagine what they have in place now – and what the US will very probably loan them for the Games?
Well the Continuity IRA said thay had alot of people in London in a recent article.
They're alledgely connected to Republic Sinn Fein ( rsfkerry*om ).
We promote the NA as the antidonte to the NWO here, US, ( natall*om).
Well the Continuity IRA said in an article a couple of moths ago it has alot of people in London.
The were talking about games.
Anyway they're alledgedly connected to Republican Sinn Fein.
http://www.rsfkerry.com
We promote also the NA here (US) as an antidote to the NWO.
http://www.natvan.com
Why not just get rid of Yemen? Other than breed terrorists, Yemen is good for.....what?
Kidnapped Israeli athletes? At the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorists of Black September kidnapped and murdered 12 people (one was a German policeman.). Why does the article simply say kidnapped?
With around a 100,000 thousand if not more troops/police/security guards/etc protecting the games..not to mention the missle defense system placed on rooftops..I'm sure they can protect themselves.
I'm not so sure. Been to London lately? It's another Pakistani city, just in Europe. You won't find an ethnic Englishman for a fifty mile radius. The cops and security had to invade the indigenous population, and the natives are hostile.
We didn't need to hate Germans to oppose their vile ideology of nazism.
We don't need to hate moslems to oppose their vile ideology of islam.
Didn't Hitler refer to your kind as "untermensch"?
People are finally waking to the fact that islam is a crime against humanity.
So is stupidity. But that hasn't stopped you.
A Terror Threat from??
OOH OOOH OOH , let me gues...erm...uum?
Is it the Religion of Peace aka Islame?
No.....its from racist @ssholes such as yourself.
You fish are plain stupid!
Islam is a religeon not a race. MOron
with so active police and security system there should be no problem....if Ukraine managed Euro2012 so nicely why not London ....
because the Irish themselves want the 6 counties and it can be extracted by any means neccesary collateral damage is a part of war. sun szu..... Irish Republicans want to be treated as equals but that wont happen til we have a say in what the hell goes on. on our island not your island. tiocfaidh ar la
I think all this should stop.
I think all this people who threaten other people should stop that and be at peace with everyone.
see dr owour a prophet among us. read deuteronomy18 & st marks 16 to confirm. see who the enemy is.
I am wondering why they completely did not talk about the potential threat from the illuminati? Perhaps because this is CNN and the media is controlled by them. They want to lead you in a different direction. They want a new world order as you see on the back of the dollar bill. Look at the pyramid and check out the stadium lighting. Look at the Olympic logo that can be rearranged to spell out Zion. It spells 2012 now, but what's with the extra dot? Maybe I am wrong, but what if I am right? Is this way out in left field? Possibly. But, I can tell you there is substantial evidence that I could be right.
There are references to this event as well as 9/11 in movies and TV. The media is owned by a group called the illuminati, who has for one of it's symbols the all seeing eye. See back of dollar bill. You may notice the eye being used in other places such as the logo for CBS.
you've been watching waaay too much youtube...
I just talked to the Jews Chris, they want you bad. Better hide!
Your american gov. along with england are having these attacks so they can offer these people to there gods wake up people 911 was an offering to there gods they need more blood
"god" is with us,nothing will happen.
"god is with us. Nothing will happen" – Just like 9/11 then?
...is toxic caterpillars! Forget the metal detectors, Nature has already breached security and the Games might be really interesting thanks to these little buggers: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-07/news/31614450_1_oak-trees-caterpillars-moth
this certainly sounds positive about the olympics.
Nobody talks about peace anymore, just kill, kill, kill., the whole World is under the threat of fear and the sad part is most of us really don't know who the enemy is.
Death to extremists!
Code 0 : Kalki the ancient one.
How so very true that rings, Claudia! Judging by some of these hateful, right-wing comments here, on would think that America was a nation of blood thirsty warmongers! That's a bad reflection on me as an American myself. This hate needs to go!!!!!
The Western countries went and stired up bee nest, they must be stung by the bees. Why don't all you westerners sit down and think for a minute why your countries are becoming target for people trying to kill or make your cities a war zone?. Pls think about that.
Al -Qaeda put its foot in a bear trap when it attacked the West. It was only going to be a matter of time before the poachers came after them.
Sooo your telling me if the "West" pulled out of all these countries with suspected terror cells, we would be prefectly safe???
We could put on our special suits and fire up the smokers and as long as such precautions are taken we'll have no trouble continuing to harvest the world's resourc... uhh, I mean the honey. It's even easier when the Queen Bee is on the beekeeper's payroll, happy to sell out her worker bees for a nice palace located somewhere defensible.
Please think about the fact that you're generalising a nation! We can't dictate our government like others can. I speak for millions in the UK that are against racism and war and terror. We want peace. Also we can't stop plans from a organised hierarchy government working in-conjuction with the American government, infiltrated years ago by (not-so) secret societies with pre existing plans to cause mass terrorism in western civilisation. We're not all stubborn racist .. Yu have a warped view from too many media outlets ... Get a mind of your own and understand what's going on around you and the west!!!
Hooray for Muslims they are the greatest!
TOUCHE Kenny
Is this threat real or was this invented by the notorious British MI-6 or the C.I.A. itself? After all, they don't call the C.I.A. the Masters of Deceit for nothing!!!
Heard of You Tube and Google?
Do a search on Muslim radicalism in UK and Europe see what comes up!
Remember the Shezen visa which allows Europeans to travel all over Europe & USA unhindered.
Surely you mean Shenga Visa? Oh and btw, that Shengan Visa is not used by anyone who is a citizen of any European country... It is the visa that people such as myself, a South African, have to to get to go travel in Europe. Be a bit more sure of these things before you make a fool of yourself... Tut-tut-tut???
ShengaN Visa...sorry
SHEZAM!!
I thought Oblunder was bring the Olympics to the U.S> Oh thats right another thing he failed at !!! If you think Oblunder is doing a good job you are either under educated or just stupid
Quite true bb, quite true!
like ur father failed to wear condom ..disgrace
- FEAR IS POWER --
These guys are just losers walk around in salwaars lil hat and women in black tents ...wonder they are mad at world
yep we call them ragheads. walking around in broad daylight in their pyjamas.
What is MOST NOTABLE here:
A statement from Pakistan's High Commissioner to the UK Walid Shamsul Hassan in an interview to the Sunday Times and later on BBC in response to the continuing Drone strikes.
“American raids inside Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London-There are 1 million Pakistani Diaspora in UK and they can make the streets of London less safe” .
Until the British stop the torrent of immigrants from Pakistan and other Islamic ountries this threat will only increase.
Hear ye all. The wretched HINDHU has spoken
Dear Friend Awabnavi;
It's our Muslim DIPLOMAT (NOt just another Muslim) from peace loving Pakistan who's spoken.
BREAKING WIND NEWS! Everybody, everywhere, is under a terrorist threat. As long as they keep making demands for death against whoever, we all face a threat.
Terrorists hope to disrupt normal everyday activities where a free & open society exists and cannot be protected every minute. It appears from news reports that London has taken every possible precauten to protect the Olympics. Attacking the World Olympics would cause a world outrage that might actually backfire against the terrorist movement; a movement primarly aimed at the Western countries at this time and has support elsewhere.
Your government is trolling for troublemakers.Beware.
When the word "mother" is a trigger for DHS we will soon be like China with one cop for every 10 people.
ok. So live in fear, always!.... is the motto...Whities behave as if they are gonna live forever...
saeed my bruther will no longer be able to posdt
as his sooicide vest blowed up this morning.
Allah snakbar.
U taking his place? lol
CNN,
is this really supposed to be such an offensive blog?
Wipe it out. This is ridiculous!
What offensive blog? Are you refering to the article? Or are you refering to the comment board?
The comment board only.
Have you ever seen brave terrorist? No cose all pakistanis are coward they attack innocent kids or blow emself
rather then fighting face to face ..i see here some one boosting about Uk bombing , these impotent men are disgrace on islam
Indian nonsense. You want to be the Policeman of the area and Pakistan is the only country not towing your line so you get the big policeman to beat Pakistan. So much so for your bravery.
yep: It dose show. you rather hide and blow your self up like he said, then stand and fight.
Face the reality son atleast you dont deny being coward 🙂
problem of all evils is pakistan , in pakistan they killing balochies , hazzars , hindus , sikhs , bombings in london , states, India , africa ,europe , these pple dont even leave children , and women .
What BS are you talking about. The Baloch are killing you because you are taking their rights. Mind your business and nobody will bother you.
I am a iman: and you will be assimilated, once i have brainwash you. you will go out and blow your self up and kill or bring in others to be assimilated. you get my drift.
f u u terrorist why dont you go blow urself
cant wait until you pple are ruined , hope India helps us as they did to bangalis
The civilians of Pakistan are probably just like everywhere else, but it`s the means Pakistan uses to run its military, terrorist dictatorship. They can`t inflict war openly as the country is economically really weak and don`t have much of a military front. So how do they get around that problem? They use terrorists, sort of like back stabbing someone.
London couldn't even protect the torch-bearers in 2008, and did a horrible job protecting it's own populace from rioters last year. Having the olympics there is a recipe for disaster. The english authorities have demonstrated that they can't handle it. By the way, a very recent survey of over 130 experienced officers in the UK revealed that they predict the riots will be repeated because of police budget cuts, and the fact that the rioters faced no real consequences last time. Gangs and other troublemakers who were involved generally think that "it was fun."
Everyday something can happen. Deal with it. Tired of this "living in terror" bunk.
But this is the first Olympics with a terror threat. Since every Olympics for the last several decades.
Munich, 1972 says "hello".
You got to distract the peoples attention from what is actually going on by the thieving politicians and bankers. Mention terror attacks every so often
Saeed,
You and your muslim brother's are the downfall of civilization. Have fun in hell.
islam is a crime against humanity. islam is vile.
People like you act as if ignorance were a virtue. Al Qaeda, especially in Iraq, has killed over 50k Shia muslims. The same can be said for Al Qaeda in the Magrheb, Yemen, Al-Shaba in East Africa and so on. The real enemy is ignorance, and unfortunately, you, and others on this blog certainly have much more in common with fundimental, ignorant extemists than you can imagine. It's all really quite ironic, and ultimately–sad.
wow CNN, you are just about 2 years late with this story....
Getting everyone ready for the false flag. They can't do it at this point. Cat is out of the bag. Here's hoping enough information has been plastered all over the internet about how this potential "terrorist" attack has been prepared not by Muslims out to get our "freedom" but by evil old white men who own the world and our freedom already.
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/memory-holes-in-the-floor/
It's the 'New World Order' Stupid! Nothing needs to happen, just the Fact that something 'could' happen is all that's needed now-a-days. How do you break a 'Country' – Bankrupt them and this works just fine – have you ever seen what regular 'security' costs for an event?? Now, factor in the 'Fear-Factor' of a 'terrorist attack' and the price tag goes to the moon!!
@saeed. I really hope your people somehow carry out threats towards the people in the olympics. Maybe you might kill a beloved Russian athlete. Or a Chinese one. Then we all could be united and wipe you and your kind off the map for good.
u cant wipe out the truth im the keeper of the ultimate knowlegde what would this world do without my help there would be nothing.
Don't worry, saeed. The world will go merrily along with you. Feel free to check out any time.
There's a hot rumor going around on the internet these days, bloggers are talking about a potential false flag event at the London Olympics involving a nuclear device, bigger than 911. Allegedly this device will be set off in the stadium somehow. Thousands of people would be killed obviously, and London rendered uninhabitable. There also seems to be issues with security, as an insider alleges that metal detectors will be periodically shut down, and security staff are not being trained correctly, (if at all.) Someone will be able to slip though with a weapon of mass destruction if they have inside information as to when they are able to get inside undetected, and with poorly trained security any number of issues could occur. All I know is, if some kind of tragic event occurs at these Olympics, and people are killed in just as described, it will be unforgivable, not to mention extremely obvious. This has been talked about for awhile, we had better not allow anything like this to occur. Not on my watch. No way.
You need to take a flase flag. In fact, take the entire flagpole.
Yea.. I know what you're referring to. Interesting how this article doesn't mention it. What is the goal of the illuminati? New World Order. How does that happen? If there were a way to unite the world, how would you do it? What if it could be done by fighting against a common enemy such as an alien attack? How would that change our world and unite us "Independance Day"-like?
Saeed
Instead of posting incomprehensible nonsense, you would do better going to elementary school and learning some basics in language...you're an absolute mess...wow!
BTW, you had better hope and pray that nothing happens at the London Olympics or you can count on 1000 years of ill will towards muslims on top of the existing ill will against them!
That's not a threat...it is a reality that may just obliterate your people and send them back to the Dark Ages!
dont worry someone is going to hide a bombe some where i mean the have blown people up before they are going to do it again britain is bankcrupt anyway so lets get ride of the british people they are going to damend aid soon and it will be to costly anyway to help them.
@saeed. With comments like yours, no wonder people have a bad opinion of Muslims. BTW we are not bankrupt. PS saeed – get a life or are you looking forward to those virgins (all men).
If we're to assume that a race should be exterminated before they become a burden on humanity, then you would never have been born.
funny this coming from a ho,mo that gets kill,ed everyday all over the world iraq afghanistan how can even britain wage a nuclear war they have 200 nu,kes they gonna att,ack someone like russia with 13000 nu,kes the soviet union could have wip,ed uk of the face of the earth 60 years ago a couple of muslims bl,ew entire london up with buss bom,bings even moore funny a british man set himself on fi,re a couple a days ago because of the economy even moore of a joke you people cant pay for can,cer medication.
Let us know when you come out of the 15th century, Mohammed.
@saeed
I F**** your sister in the butt in Iraq. She loved my Christian C***.
@ saeed
She slurped all over my big white american C***. I will go back to the middle est and F*** all your women, and give them lots of little Jesus loving children.
You have not, you're just an ipotent midget hiding behind a computer to look important to yourself.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Baaaaaaaaaaaaah, Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaddy?
Go and have some quality time with your goat.
oh dear. it seems the Al Qaeda group has already brain washed you at such a young age. Pity
go blow yourself up! dirty rag head