Avoid public places in Europe

I wonder what the CIA are planning now! :rolleyes:

My lottery guess is the Channel Tunnel.

Would terrorists looking to target American citizens not just go to America? Its hardly like the terrorists are going "A high concentration of Americans to kill, hhmmm, oh I know! Stockholm!"

Superbus wrote: »

The Spire.

Dangerous place.

Anyway, the Americans are trying to trick us.




I was at the shops earlier today. I watched a former provo walk past a member of the Orange Lodge.
I knew both of their histories, but they didn't know each other. It was quite amusing.

Neither were/are militants.

digme wrote: »

the same sky news that brought you "iraq will nuke you in 25 minutes..."

That wasn't Sky News, it was Colin Powell....and it was '45 minutes'.

Bjorn Bored. wrote: »

So let me get this straight, the American govt is warning its own citizens not to gather in public places in Europe for fear of being bombed?

WHAT ABOUT US POOR BLEEDIN EUROPEANS,DONT WE COUNT??

Cuz...they were elected to look after the interests of Americans and not Europeans...honestly that question should be directed to your democratically elected governments...you know...

Awaits BBC (i.e. more credible source) News verification.

Min wrote: »

The Obama administration is to issue a warning to US citizens to avoid public places in Europe, it is is believed that a terrorist attack is imminent.

So says Sky News.

Last week the talk was about Mumbai style attacks in Europe. I wonder if this is what is expected.

Yes.....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-brothers-behind-plot-to-terrorise-europe-2094515.html

Two British brothers based in Pakistan were at the heart of a plot to launch "Mumbai-style" terrorist attacks in Britain and other European countries, it was claimed yesterday.


One of the men, named as Abdul Jabbar, was killed earlier this month in a missile strike by an unmanned American drone as part of a series of attacks directly aimed at the organisers of the plan to stage co-ordinated killing sprees by groups of commandos in major European cities.

A Pakistani intelligence official said the two Britons had been tracked for nearly a year in North Waziristan, a lawless tribal region which has become a hub for Islamist militants, along with eight German citizens who were also involved with the al-Qa'ida-linked plot.

The men had been making phone calls to London and Germany to begin the process of activating the plot by finding accomplices in Europe, the official said. Western security sources said on Wednesday that the scheme had recently moved from being an aspiration to concrete planning and was "still active".

The Pakistani official, part of the team in charge of tracking the suspects, told the Associated Press: "They have been making calls to Germany and London. They have been talking about and looking for facilitators and logistics they need there to carry out terror attacks."

Intelligence on the plot first emerged late this summer following the arrest of a German national, Ahmed Sidiqui, 36, who was detained in Kabul in July and provided American interrogators with details of an attack on Britain, France and Germany being planned from Waziristan.

The information provided by Sidiqui was closely linked to a sharp rise in CIA drone attacks in the region last month aimed at disrupting the organisers of the plot, which was designed to mimic the bloody assault on Mumbai in 2008 by 10 Pakistani terrorists who killed nearly 170 people in a three-day rampage

Jabbar, who was believed to be less than 30 years old and who came from the Jhelum district in northern Pakistan, was killed on 8 September in one of 21 US missile strikes – the highest number of attacks in a single month in six years. The Foreign Office declined to give details on the death of the Briton, saying it did not discuss security matters. The fate of his brother is unknown.

Although Western security sources described the plot as "embryonic" and said attackers had not yet travelled to Europe, the Pakistani official warned against underestimating the suspects, who he said were acting with the support of al-Qa'ida and the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The official said: "It does not mean that they are not capable of materialising their designs. They are very much working on it."
Counter-terrorism officials said the disclosure of the Mumbai-style plot proved that the threat from Islamist groups remained high.