London "faces election terrorism threat"

According to Reuters, Terrorists may try to strike the country in the run-up to an election expected within weeks, just as bombers struck Spain shortly before a vote there, London's police chief says in an interview.

"I don't see this in the sense of some huge security operation, but I have pointed out that -- with an election coming up -- terrorists might just remember the bombings in Madrid only a year ago," Sir Ian Blair said on Thursday.

"We must be aware that al Qaeda will see the opportunity this year for a worldwide statement," he told Whitehall and Westminster World, a magazine for civil servants.

"I know my professional intelligence assessments and I know that we are facing a threat more significant than anything we have faced since the Cold War and the Nazi tyranny before it."

Good of you to notice, Ian. Now if you keep on cracking down so hard on miscreants like that "porking yard" fellow, you might find that your enemies have won without detonating a single bomb.

After all, it worked in Spain.

With teeth gritted and bated breath Britain is still waiting for its own 9/11, which hopefully will never happen. But then we know the Muslim enemy better to write-off any future dramatic attack on Britain, as the war on Terror progresses. The closest shave that the British have had is the bombing of the consulate in Constantinople (Istanbul) in Turkey. The British underground is a predictable target of attack with the use of Sarin like nerve agent as had happened in the Tokyo subway. The British position vis-à-vis its Muslim population is even more vulnerable as against that of the USA. Since in Britain the Muslim community is much more numerous. While in the USA, it accounts for about 1 percent, in Britain it is about 7 percent.