Real: UK Warns of Coming Mass Casualty Attacks on the West; Padua, Italy Bans All Further Permitting for Mosque Construction

In Padua, patience has run out.

While they're banning permits for mosque construction, they will "loosen" restrictions to allow more in-home religious observation.

Meanwhile, MI-5 says Al Qaeda is on the run, but unfortunately they're heading for major European capitals.

Oh, just keep in mind: We now have a competition for jihadist affections between ISIS and Al Qaeda.

That's right. We know what they've done in the past; now we can savor their doings as they attempt to top each other.

Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on a French satirical newspaper, MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely.

"A group of core al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West," Director General Parker said in a rare public speech at MI5 headquarters in London. His last public speech was in October 2013.

In the speech, planned before the killings in Paris, Parker said seasoned al Qaeda militants in Syria aimed to "cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets” in the West."

Obama immediately declared that should Al Qaeda dare to attack US interests, he would be ready, willing, and able to deploy a speech on community college subsidies.

Also over at Hot Air, stuff you probably know, like that the Charlie Hebdo terrorists said they were trained by Al Qaeda -- in Yemen, I think I read, but don't trust my memory -- and the Vincennes hostage taker confirmed he was coordinating with the Charlie Hebdo terrorists.

You know, one thing Parker added was that there were simply too many terrorists for police to keep tabs on.

In Sydney, even though the hostage taker was a well-known Muslim nut, they did not keep tabs on him, explaining there are just too many such people on the terror watch lists for the police to keep their eyes on.

France obviously let many high-threat terrorists (ones with previous terrorist convictions, for god sake) out from under their watchful eyes. I assume this is because they have too many terrorists to watch.

Now Andrew Parker of MI-5 says there are too many terrorists to keep up with.

Seems we better start reducing the number of terrorists in our countries or we will have to accept them reducing the number of Westerners living in the west.

posted by Ace at 06:41 PM

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