Nato concerned Isil is plotting nuclear attack on UK
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People may laugh and I don't think drones are likely to be used. It could be something much much simpler. For example it wouldn't be hard to insert pea sized lumps of radioactive materials into the anus's of dozens of pigeons then release them over Trafalgar Square. The result widespread radiation and panic. If that sounds far fetched remember the Iragi exploding dogs, and those badgers that the UK is 'alleged' to have used to supress insergents around Baghdad.
burritoNinja said:
I think it is only a matter of time before those looney Islamic idiots do carry out a major attack. It honestly bloody well scares me who fanatical they are. Paris was beyond shocking. It has put us off going to Europe.
I am forever grateful for the excellent work that the likes of M16/GCHQ do on a daily basis to help prevent any attacks. God know what they have stopped from happening so far.
And to think you have the right to vote.I am forever grateful for the excellent work that the likes of M16/GCHQ do on a daily basis to help prevent any attacks. God know what they have stopped from happening so far.
A dirty bomb is not a difficult thing to make, and the materials required are not *that* hard to obtain if you have taken over large swathes of a country with medical infrastructure. The impact would be economic, political and psychological, though, rather than reflected in massive casualties. You might kill some people in the explosion, you might (but probably wouldn't) contaminate some people heavily enough to make them sick at the time, and you might succeed in giving a few people cancer down the line. You would create the need for a large and prolonged clean-up operation, though, which could put key bits of public infrastructure out of commission for a long time. You'd cause chaos, cost a lot of money, and scare the crap out of the population.
TTwiggy said:
Pigeons you say?... The Islamification of Rotherham starts to make sense.
Yes. Pigeons have a long history in warfare. The US used them to pilot guided missile in WWII. Stuffing their anus's with nuclear material would just be a more simplified modern take on the idea. I'd better stop typing incase I get a knock on the door from the Spooks!
Timmy40 said:
Yes. Pigeons have a long history in warfare. The US used them to pilot guided missile in WWII. Stuffing their anus's with nuclear material would just be a more simplified modern take on the idea.
I'd better stop typing incase I get a knock on the door from the Spooks!
I think the RSPCA is more likely.I'd better stop typing incase I get a knock on the door from the Spooks!
Welshbeef said:
el stovey said:
AndrewEH1 said:
"hacking driverless cars" hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaaahahahahahahah
Instantly killing you and permanently taking out cities. Welshbeef said:
I posted a similar thread a short while ago - the general PH posting on it was its all tosh with many dubious cartoon or mocking pics posted.
Weren't you suggesting delivery with a drone though?
Welshbeef said:
Pretty horrific - apparently there is footage of ISL using cheaply bought drones (anywhere online) with the objective of flying them over western cities and spraying the weapons grade or medical grade or energy grade uranium which will instantly kill thousands and then the generations of said cities being uninhabitable and the high cancer cases following attacks.
Are we getting close to a Black Swan event? Say London is taken out permanently simply how would we retaliate and how could we live?
Are we getting close to a Black Swan event? Say London is taken out permanently simply how would we retaliate and how could we live?
Budflicker said:
burritoNinja said:
I think it is only a matter of time before those looney Islamic idiots do carry out a major attack. It honestly bloody well scares me who fanatical they are. Paris was beyond shocking. It has put us off going to Europe.
I am forever grateful for the excellent work that the likes of M16/GCHQ do on a daily basis to help prevent any attacks. God know what they have stopped from happening so far.
And to think you have the right to vote.I am forever grateful for the excellent work that the likes of M16/GCHQ do on a daily basis to help prevent any attacks. God know what they have stopped from happening so far.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with fear in the current political climate.
danllama said:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with fear in the current political climate.
Indeed it's very useful. And the public will comply with almost anything provided a suitably scary bogey man is produced, and frankly the more outrageous and unlikely the claimed threat the better. Remember when Saddam had missiles primed and ready to reign down nuclear destruction on London within 45 min. Good job we had the Gulf War to stop that!
Puggit said:
We must keep the borders open to all, and racial profiling is just racist. Let's turn a blind eye and welcome them in!
1. Our borders are not open to all. 2. Racial profiling is not particularly effective. Given anyone might hold extremist views, targeting specific races opens up the possibility of a terrorist slipping through, because they happen to have the right skin tone. Not to mention the insult to millions upon millions of genuinely innocent people.
3. Closing the door after the horse has bolted is pointless. Terrorists have generally been "homegrown", disenfranchised by society and radicalised by propaganda.
Timmy40 said:
Indeed it's very useful. And the public will comply with almost anything provided a suitably scary bogey man is produced, and frankly the more outrageous and unlikely the claimed threat the better.
Remember when Saddam had missiles primed and ready to reign down nuclear destruction on London within 45 min. Good job we had the Gulf War to stop that!
Was Saddam murdering EU citizens in Paris and Brussels?Remember when Saddam had missiles primed and ready to reign down nuclear destruction on London within 45 min. Good job we had the Gulf War to stop that!
Regardless of your opinion or my own, the man has a right to be afraid of terrorism, and is fully justified IMO.
An attack on the UK is long overdue.
Zod said:
TTwiggy said:
yellowjack said:
There are two artics crammed full of mitigation/containment kit on permanent standby at a location I won't disclose
Classic.
So a common error slipped through my quick self-edit. You realise that some of the least intelligent people I've ever met were Senior NCOs and even WOs? At least when it came to writing reports and suchlike. That, in your opinion, seems enough to convince you that I didn't serve 25 years before the colours, the last seven of those years in a RE EOD Regiment. Woop-de-doo. Believe what you like, because in response to this playground nonsense...
Zod said:
So what intel have you seen, yellowjack? If you had seen any, you would not be posting about it on here.
...I'm no longer in the services. I've been retired for the last four years and I'm enjoying it. So I can probably get away with mentioning that I've seen plenty of intelligence reports in my time. Just not recent ones, obviously. Most of the walls on the stairs leading up to the Ops Room were covered with locally (in-house) prepared posters, detailing the various threats faced in various theatres of operations. Anything I mention I'm intelligent enough to make sure it's already in the public domain.And seeing as how this...
Containment Team in action
...is already in the public domain http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/units/28649.... then I suppose I can link to it. That 'foam cone' is part of the "dirty bomb" containment equipment loaded into the two articulated curtainsiders that live on standby in the Regiment's "Containment Store".
Check out the contact details for the Reserve Squadrons. Sign up, and you too could have first hand knowledge of what that cone is filled with. But if I told you, I'd have to kill you...
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