Hva hadde skjedd om 600 kilo kunstgjødsel var blitt forvandlet til bomber som hadde eksplodert? Hva ville skjedd med London som megapolis og finanssentrum?
London har vært rammet av megabomber tidligere. IRA sprengte en bombe i City som forårsaket enorme skader. Det trekkes paralleller mellom Eire/irer og dagens islamister og deres baser i Pakistan.
Men det er mye som ikke stemmer. Hvis en bombe går av i London eller en tilsvarende storby vil spørsmålet som kryper innpå en være: hva er det neste? hvor stopper dette?
Over tid vil noen ubehagelige sammenligninger melde seg: – Vi kjenner Bagdad. Motforestillingen melder seg umiddelbart: – Ærlig talt. Dette er Europa.
Men så kommer en ubehagelig tanke altfor nær til å kunne ignoreres: – Men tankene og ideologien er den samme.
Så begynner vi å se oss rundt, og spørsmålene kommer veltende. Mediene vil opptre shizofrent. Slik de også gjorde idag. BBC var ikke et hår bedre enn NRK ville vært. Det var å sette en tåtesmokk i munnen på seerne.
…there is a lack of understanding in Britain of the nature and scale of the terrorist threat.
That absence is caused largely because discussion of terrorism — whether conducted in the media or the mosque, the Commons or the courts — is characterised by complacency, stymied by denial or cloaked in secrecy.
Men like Mohammed Sidique Khan and Omar Khyam were part of a network of Islamists who carried their religious radicalism into terrorism. Trace back their movements, their phone calls and their associates and you will link them all. The network they were part of is still best called by the name al-Qaeda.
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A common pattern of movements exists in 7/7 and the Operation Crevice case.The terrorists travelled to and from Pakistan, where al-Qaeda’s leaders are based. All their plots were conceived of, planned in and directed from Pakistan.It is relatively easy for terrorists and jihadis to blend in with the 400,000 people who visit Pakistan from Britain every year and stay, on average, for 41 days.
Khan spent three months in Pakistan from December 2004. He was programmed to become a “martyr”, taught how to make bombs and sent home to commit murder on the Tube.