Paris attacks: Undercover SAS patrolling British streets

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SAS soldiers have been posing as homeless people with sniffer dogs as Britain steps up its secret war with terrorists.

ISIS in Britain: Undercover SAS patrolling our streets as Paris mourns terror attack victims


Special ops soldiers have posed as homeless people with sniffer dogs as Britain steps up a secret war with terrorists

Daily Mirror
15 November 2015


The MI6 building on the north bank of the River Thames adjacent to Lambeth Bridge. Britain's highly-trained security services are ensuring that Britain has not become a victim of a terrorist attack of the scale of Friday's attack in France, whose security services have been criticised

Jihadists plotting a Paris-style attack on Britain's streets are being monitored by more agents than have operated in this country since the Second World War.

Thousands of undercover police, special forces operatives, military spooks and paid agents keep a close eye on suspects and gangs on the streets and through the CCTV network.

Most of us will have passed within feet of them as we go about our daily business.

Some SAS operators have even posed as homeless people with dogs capable of sniffing out a bomb or oil from a gun from 20ft away.


Best in the world: The SAS storm the Iranian Embassy in London in May 1980 to end the siege

There are more than 700 known would-be jihadis in the UK.

They have honed their skills in the Syrian killing fields – following thugs like Junaid Hussain, 20, pictured posing with a scarf over his face and a rifle in his hands before being killed in an airstrike.

Many are monitored by MI5 and the police.

But there are thousands more radicalised youths who could turn at any time.


Thug: Junaid Hussain


And the massive secret war is about to be ramped up even further to stop a Paris-style atrocity happening here.

Extraordinary measures are being ordered to keep Britain safe, and within days we will see many more heavily-armed police patrolling our streets, transport hubs and shopping centres.

But the larger part of the operation will remain unseen.

Highly-trained former soldiers have been drafted in as “walkers” to cast a vigilant eye over crowds, trying to spot suspicious people.

They can spot a heavily-loaded vehicle – such as a van packed with explosives – from the shape of the tyres.

Last August the MI5 “threat level” for terror attacks in Britain rose to “severe” – meaning an attack is highly likely.

The source warned: “For all the attacks being thwarted and jihadists arrested, the chilling fact is the further away we are from the last attack, the closer we are to the next one.

“We’ve seen the 7/7 London bomb plot in 2005 and then the killing of Lee Rigby in 2013 by lone wolf attackers.

“But the Paris attacks are of a scale we haven’t seen in the UK because of the amount of plotters being stopped.”

In the coming weeks security guards and police spotting suspect packages will cordon off streets, shut down buildings and evacuate malls.

CCTV operators will be extra vigilant for individuals assessing bomb targets. The UK is the most spied-on nation in the world, with a CCTV camera for every 11 citizens.


Britain's huge CCTV network, the largest in the world, ensures that plotters have little hiding place

It leaves little hiding place for plotters to stockpile the amount of ammunition and explosives needed to carry out a Paris-style attack – even if they could source it. While an AK-47 assault rifle can be bought for a few hundred pounds from gangsters, it is extremely hard to get the number of bullets needed for an attack.

Gangster networks here do not have the same roots in North Africa and the Middle East as the underworld in France and across Europe – and a jihadist gang trying to buy weapons here might be quietly reported.

He said: “We have developed appropriate tactics to deal with a firearms attack in London, but we are constantly evolving new ways to combat the threats to public safety.”

UK police will liaise with those in France as intelligence emerges.

At the French embassy in London yesterday mourners left flowers in memory of those killed in Paris.


Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe


ISIS in Britain: Undercover SAS patrolling our streets as Paris mourns terror attack victims - Mirror Online
 
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Danbones

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oh great
anyone remember when the sas was busted dressed up as muslims and were caught they say setting IEDs and then the brits had to go in and wipe out the police station to get them back?
"British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'"
The Insider - British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'

then there is the natter of who actually set most of the bombs in Ireland
they say it wasn't the Irish

not to mention the guy who ran the drill at 777 wondering on TV why all the places in his drill got hit with real bombs...

welcome to Britian's got band aids
 

Danbones

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say wasn't that building due to be torn down due to asbestos?
 

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Kudos to the Bobbies for their good work in ferreting out those potential troubles.

It's the same thing local cops here in Gopherland are doing as well. Lots of security cameras, under cover cops, sniffing dogs, and word of mouth spread by local Muslims who are cooperating with the cops. For a while there we were having quite a scare that radicals would start some violence. But that scare has largely dissipated thanks to good work by police and community activists.
 

Blackleaf

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oh great
anyone remember when the sas was busted dressed up as muslims and were caught they say setting IEDs and then the brits had to go in and wipe out the police station to get them back?
"British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'"
The Insider - British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'

then there is the natter of who actually set most of the bombs in Ireland
they say it wasn't the Irish

not to mention the guy who ran the drill at 777 wondering on TV why all the places in his drill got hit with real bombs...

welcome to Britian's got band aids

Strange man....

Sorry to inform you Blackie... but ISIS just blew up your MI6 Building..



Have a nice day.. :lol:


Well I've just had a look on the BBC News website and there's nothing about it on there.



Britain to hire 2,000 new spies at MI5, MI6 and GCHQ in wake of the Paris terror attacks

The number of spies will rise by 15 per cent in what is expected to be the biggest expansion of the security services since the 7/7 terror attacks in London in July 2005


MI6, or SIS, (Secret Intelligence Service) Building beside Vauxhall Bridge in Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth
Photo: Alamy

By Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent, G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey
The Telegraph
16 Nov 2015

An additional 2,000 spies will be hired at MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to fight those "who would destroy us and our values" in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, David Cameron has said.

The number of spies will rise by 15 per cent in what is expected to be the biggest expansion of the security services since the 7/7 terror attacks in London in July 2005.

The Prime Minister will also say that the budget for security at foreign airports should double £18 million a year after a Russian passenger plane was apparently destroyed by a bomb earlier this month.

Mr Cameron said: "Our intelligence agencies work round the clock behind the scenes and as the threat has grown so they too have risen to the challenge.

"Much of what they do cannot be seen by us or talked about but their courageous and determined efforts allow us to go about our daily life.

“This is a generational struggle that demands we provide more manpower to combat those who would destroy us and our values."

The new cash for the security and intelligence agencies to provide for an extra 1,900 officers - an increase of 15 per cent - at MI5, MI6 and GCHQ is a response to the increasing international terrorist threat, more cyber-attacks and other global risks. The three agencies currently have a staff of around 12,700.

Extra aviation security experts will be deployed to provide regular assessments of security at airports around the world, with the capacity to ‘surge’ as necessary in response to the Russian air attack as part of a "step change" in Britain's approach to airport security.

There are just currently 20 Government aviation security liaison officers of whom eight are based overseas.

The Prime Minister said: “We will also step up our efforts on aviation security, helping countries around the world to put in place the tightest security measures possible so that we can continue to enjoy places like Egypt and Tunisia and continue with our way of life we hold so dear.

"Economic security goes hand-in-hand with national security. Since 2010 we have taken the tough decisions necessary to restore our economic strength and we now have one of the fastest growing developed economies.

“That means we can now invest more in our national security and I am determined to prioritise the resources we need to combat the terrorist threat because protecting the British people is my number one duty as Prime Minister."

The National Security Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the Government’s policy on aviation security.


Thames House, the headquarters of the British Security Service (MI5), adjacent to Lambeth Bridge in the City of Westminster Photo: REUTERS

The Prime Minister has ordered a rapid review of security at a number of airports around the world in the wake of the Sinai disaster with aviation specialists expected to conduct assessments over the next two months at locations in the Middle East and North Africa in particular.

Additional security measures were put in place by the UK and US at a number of potentially vulnerable airports over the past year, and these will now be reviewed to check whether they go far enough.

Britain will also offer more advice, training and equipment for other countries to increase security at airports in vulnerable countries and increased research into screening technology and to detect new threats.

The airport security assessments are likely to focus on the nature and scale of the threat and the measures in place to reduce vulnerabilities, for example passenger screening; physical security at the airport and hold baggage and freight screening.


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