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Another Terrorist Attack On the Horizon In the UK

Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. - 8/16/2006

A British freelance spy says he know what in part led to last week's foiled, but very nearly deadly, terror plot in Britain. In an e-mail interview Glen Jenvey said a pervasive "culture of hate from Islamic radical preachers for many years," and "the turning of a blind eye by British police officers and law makers" have led to the problems currently being experienced in Britain.

Jenvey said, "For years the British security services and police have refused to act on terror groups operating in the United Kingdom, and the problem has now blown up into the red faces of the government and police."

According to Jenvey, his extensive monitoring of terror groups has led him to conclude that there is going to be another attack(s) take place in the U.K, similar to the July 7 2005 attack (www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/london.timeline/index.html), but maybe on a bigger scale.

He added, "The security service needs to wake up. The U.K. has become a terrorist base, like many other European countries, and unless we arrest the leaders and preachers of hate, like law enforcement has failed to do in the past, this is just the start of an unholy terror war on the U.K."

However, while many people are issuing a blanket condemnation of Muslims, Jenvey cautioned, and are profiling people with brown skin as the problem, that shows "how little real intelligence top cops in the U.K. have about these Islamic and other terror groups."

After the recent foiled plot, Jenvey said, the news media are full of speculation. "It's 24/7 news coverage, and the news media are quick to blame normal every day Muslims. For example, they're running statements from Lord Stevens (www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/lordstevens.shtml), a former top cop who was one of the failed police chiefs who never took action for years on these groups. He thinks by blaming Muslims he can achieve some sort of help from the Islamic community in the U.K."

Jenvey was referring to statements from former Scotland Yard Commissioner Lord Stevens, who called on Britain's Muslims to do more to stamp out terrorism in their own community.

As the British tabloid 'The Daily Express reported" (http://express.lineone.net/news_detail.html?sku=304), Stevens accused Muslims of "denial" and believing mistakenly that they are the "main victims."

Stevens said, the Express reported, "When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain’s foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is wrong?"

Stevens was furious at the "knee-jerk reaction" of suspects' friends and families who insisted they were innocent and that no Muslim would carry out violent attacks.

The Express reported that Stevens said, "We heard the same from the family and friends of the 7/7 bombers, didn't we? All this would suggest the blindingly obvious "that terrorism is a major problem for the Muslim community of Britain."

Jenvey called Stevens' comments "unhelpful."

He said that Stevens seems to attack normal hard-working Muslims across the country. His attacks on one faith, Jenvey pointed out, raise a question in the minds of many British Asians.

"Is Stevens just covering up his lack of action stopping the jihad roadshows that have been going on in the U.K. for years by radical clerics like Abu Hamza ad Bakri". (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4690224.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4144792.stm).

Jenvey said, "or is this a cheap racist swipe at the Asian (and other ethnic) communities? I can't see how his (call for) profiling at airports is going to (help)."

Jenvey said the problem in Britain runs much deeper than the way it was explained by Stevens. "It's allowing a culture of jihad over many years with some 80 groups linked to al-Qaeda to breed in the UK. That shows bad policy and awful management by the police for many years."

Jenvey recalled, "I remember spying on a non-Islamic group in the UK for two years. The police and security service were most unhelpful and allowed the group to operate, going as far as to let them run charities and raise funds to kill commonwealth troops. The Foreign Office even invited the banned group to meetings, and (among other things) (some) Members of Parliament were even inviting them for tea at the House of Commons."

Jenvey said one comment particularly stuck in his mind. "I remember the desk officer at the Foreign Office saying that as long as they did not threaten British interests they were okay."

It's that attitude, Jenvey said, that is symptomatic of a deep problem that is not being addressed, and until it does, the threat of terror will continue to grown even more prevalent.