UK 'number one al-Qaeda target'

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BBC NEWS | UK | UK 'number one al-Qaeda target'

Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC.


Security sources say the situation has never been so grim, said BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore.

They believe the network is now operating a cell structure in the UK - like the IRA did - and sees the 7 July bomb attacks "as just the beginning".

Each cell has a leader, a quartermaster dealing with weapons, and volunteers.
According to our correspondent, each cell works on separate, different plots, with masterminds controlling several different cells.
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And I am sure the IRA, which has numerous Middle East connections, could be aiding them.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
And I am sure the IRA, which has numerous Middle East connections, could be aiding them.
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However, intelligence analyst Crispin Black said another attack in the UK "was not inevitable", citing the UK's "considerable successes against the IRA".

"We still have that expertise and training present within our military forces and intelligence," he said.

"It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack. We have some pretty good clues and information on where we should be looking."
A Home Office spokeswoman referred to a recent speech by Home Secretary John Reid in which he referred to the now "seamless threat" of radicalisation.
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It would not surprise me one bit if the IRA would be invovled.....
 
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Most of those guys have come on board with peace but there are those radicals who still are laying low and waiting for the opportune time for something. These guys train in N Africa and other seedy locations all the time.
 
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Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC.
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I have a hard time taking this information seriously when the writer can't even spell "organized"..
 
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OWB said:
I have a hard time taking this information seriously when the writer can't even spell "organized"..
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Organized and organised fall into the same category as theater and theatre. Neither spelling is incorrect.
 
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Oh, must be a BBC thing...

Ok, I have a hard time taking this information seriously when the writer doesn't even spell organized the same way that I do.
 
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