Al Qaeda Plots, and the World Sleeps

Britain's MI-5 warned the world that Al Qaeda is planning an attack against Britain on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki". And nobody in the major media on either side of the Atlantic is raising the alarm. It's not enough to just sit back and rely on Britain's police forces to "watch" more than 5000 British Muslims who have demonstrated a sympathy for the terrorists.

In just the last year, as many as 150 British citizens visited Iraq to joining a "foreign legion". And the case for many of them returning to Britain after training to form sleeper cells goes beyond mere speculation. MI-5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has chronicled the progress of Al Qaeda on a host of fronts, but it doesn't do any good if the people in power do nothing with this information.

The War on Terror is not a police action. Treating avowed enemies like misbehaving teenagers will have deadly results. Britain has already been struck by Islamist terror, and people have just moved on.

In case the world's policy-makers have somehow forgotten, more than 200,000 people died in a nuclear inferno at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the terrorists aspire to nuclear weapons, but even if they are only able to use a dirty bomb no one is going to be prepared.

Let's raise awareness of this new intelligence report and shake up the politicians that refuse to do anything about this threat. Everyone is concerned that showing too many pictures of a lone gunman from Virginia Tech will cause copycats, but no one addresses the real copycat crimes that have already occurred. Mental illness is not a threat to our collective security - except the mental illness of Islamofascism.