Britain on maximum alert after foiling three attacks (AFP)

[News Manager]

AFP - Police raided homes Sunday and made a series of arrests as the government vowed to defy the "evil" of terrorism and put the country on maximum alert following three failed attacks.



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[Kirruth]

Yes, we are at maximum alert. It's kind of like the "so Ann Margaret's not coming" scene from Full Metal Jacket.

 

[sven hassell]

Maximum alert? The security situation in Britain is pathetic.Only last week I attended a customer at Dover docks and security was non-existent.I was given a security pass without anyone checking my I.D. or even asking why I was there I then drove a sealed van.(no one searched or even asked what was in it pass every UNMANNED checkpoint until I was at the entry ramp of a ferry.Had I have been a terrorist that ship would have been sunk.I phoned the national papers to try and highlight how my fellow Brits and European travellers are left completely exposed and NO-ONE was interested.I also yesterday got to within 10 feet of a cargo plane at Kent International airport wit NO I.D. and NO-ONE realising. PATHETIC. WAKE UP BRITAIN!

 

[phoenix80]

Maximum alert? The security situation in Britain is pathetic.Only last week I attended a customer at Dover docks and security was non-existent.I was given a security pass without anyone checking my I.D. or even asking why I was there I then drove a sealed van.(no one searched or even asked what was in it pass every UNMANNED checkpoint until I was at the entry ramp of a ferry.Had I have been a terrorist that ship would have been sunk.I phoned the national papers to try and highlight how my fellow Brits and European travellers are left completely exposed and NO-ONE was interested.I also yesterday got to within 10 feet of a cargo plane at Kent International airport wit NO I.D. and NO-ONE realising. PATHETIC. WAKE UP BRITAIN!

Tragic! :-(