Tuesday September 2, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Terrorists beware.
The arrest in England of a fifth person in connection with the plot to assassinate sitting Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair is essential in showing terrorists that they are being watched and tracked.

The plot came to light from a website that fell under the rubric of al Qaeda in England.
The site propounded extreme ideas and violence.
The site demanded that England withdraw its forces from Iraq.
British police insist publicly that there was no active plot.
Perhaps, but the plan was certainly in the organizational stages.

It is unlikely that these men would have been successful.
But that doesn't matter.
What matters is that other terrorists know that the police are vigilant and that the new anti-terror laws are on the side of the state and against the suspects.
It is essential that active and potential terrorists know that plotting attacks and talking about assassinating a prime minister, even in cyberspace, is illegal.

The war against terror is gaining ground - on land and in cyber space.

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