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Theresa May raises level for first time since 2007, signalling that further attack may be imminent

Soldiers are being sent on to Britain’s streets to help the police and a second terror attack may be imminent following the Manchester concert bombing, Theresa May has said.

The prime minister raised the threat level from severe to critical for the first time since July 2007, meaning “not only that an attack remains highly likely but a further attack may be imminent”.

May said she did not want to “unduly alarm” people but military personnel would be present at public events and key sites under police command.

She said it could not be ruled out that the attacker, named as Salman Ramadan Abedi, was working as part of a terrorist group.

Speaking from Downing Street after an emergency Cobra meeting, May said the investigations of the security services and police have “revealed it is a possibility we cannot ignore that there is a wider group of individuals linked to this incident”.

The prime minister said: “The police have asked for authorisation from the secretary of state for defence to deploy a number of military personnel in support of their armed officers.”

This means some armed police officers guarding events will be replaced by soldiers in an operation codenamed Temperer. It is the first time that the operation, which was first revealed in 2015, has been put into effect. The plan is believed to allow up to 5,000 troops to be deployed in support of the police, replacing armed officers at many sites to free them up for patrols in key areas.

Police and security services are urgently seeking to establish if the Manchester suicide bomber, who killed at least 22 people including several children, was acting on his own or was linked to a wider organisation.

The killer was named by Greater Manchester police as Salman Abedi, after he was first named by US security sources. Abedi was known to the police and security services, although was considered a peripheral figure.

Greater Manchester police chief constable, Ian Hopkins, said: “The priority remains to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lish-if-manchester-suicide-bomber-acted-alone
 
Silly idea from May. She seems to be copying the French tactics.
UK is a completely different country to France.
Just goes to show how completely unfit the woman is as Prime Minister.
 
Silly idea from May. She seems to be copying the French tactics.
UK is a completely different country to France.
Just goes to show how completely unfit the woman is as Prime Minister.

Maybe the Threat is similar to France ? Lets say God forbid if its a new wave of Terrorism to hit Europe like it hit France than i would say its better safe than sorry
 
Maybe the Threat is similar to France ? Lets say God forbid if its a new wave of Terrorism to hit Europe like it hit France than i would say its better safe than sorry

No France is full of millions of Arabs that are susceptible to terrorism.

UK has few Arabs and larger number of Pakistanis(who are not as susceptible to terrorism as Arabs are), but still
Pakistanis are nowhere near the numbers of the Arabs in France.

Like I say May has just shown how unfit she is to be Prime Minister. There was an even worse attack in 2005 in London and there was zero talk of putting soldiers on the streets. The UK is a country that only allows a select few police to be armed and this retarded woman comes in and does this after a single(appalling though) attack.
 
As far as I know, it's a plan from 2015 to be used in the event of a series of attacks and now it's finally used.
 
Not needed. Soldiers are not needed to fight terrorists in the West(including France), only a good intelligence Network, better monitoring of terror suspects and their radical Islamic hate preachers, engaging the community to route out , report and distance themselves from raducalised ones etc. This are the best way to deal with this barjbauwahse radical Islamic terrorists. What can a soldier do to be honest?
Terrorist here don't go fighting/attacking security officers/military like they do in the middle East,North Africa,o R even Asia(Philippines), they try to hide as much as possible and carry their explosives hidden to civilian areas which they consider soft targets. There is nothing much army can do when a suicide bomber like this one has succeeded in putting on his suicide vest and mingling among civilians in a crowded place to bknb himself. Only good intelligence is KEY.

I believe this is just a temporary show of force to reassure British people.
 
Maybe the Threat is similar to France ? Lets say God forbid if its a new wave of Terrorism to hit Europe like it hit France than i would say its better safe than sorry

Actually he's right, most terrorists in the UK are lone wolf/ underground types, so putting soldiers on the street is quite pointless. Maybe in other countries where ghettos and street gangs are far more violent, but the UK is quite different.

It just sends a message of fear that soldiers, who generally maintain a rare presence in public, are required to keep the city safe from an otherwise rare threat.
 
What a ‘nail bomb’ is and why they are terrifying improvised weapons

Media reports also suggest that a type of improvised explosive device (IED) called a “nail bomb” was detonated near an exit of the Manchester Arena, where people — many of them young women — were bottle-necked as the show let out.

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Soldiers are to AUGMENT the police.

In any city, the police are the first responders -- IN NORMAL SITUATIONS. Let us take a bank robbery, for example. This crime is always a one-time event, always in one location, victims are usually not harmed, and perpetrators are always alive. With a terrorist attack, you cannot count on these factors to remain constant. You need to let the police, as many of them, to do their jobs as quick as possible, such as gathering evidences, talking to people, investigating leads, and so on. All these things are time consuming and manpower intensive.

Soldiers are not trained to do law enforcement activities but they are trained to do one thing well -- violence. From that perspective, they are there to provide BOTH physical and psychological security with emphasis on the first -- physical security.
 
Silly idea from May. She seems to be copying the French tactics.
UK is a completely different country to France.
Just goes to show how completely unfit the woman is as Prime Minister.
Not needed. Soldiers are not needed to fight terrorists in the West(including France), only a good intelligence Network, better monitoring of terror suspects and their radical Islamic hate preachers, engaging the community to route out , report and distance themselves from raducalised ones etc. This are the best way to deal with this barjbauwahse radical Islamic terrorists. What can a soldier do to be honest?
Terrorist here don't go fighting/attacking security officers/military like they do in the middle East,North Africa,o R even Asia(Philippines), they try to hide as much as possible and carry their explosives hidden to civilian areas which they consider soft targets. There is nothing much army can do when a suicide bomber like this one has succeeded in putting on his suicide vest and mingling among civilians in a crowded place to bknb himself. Only good intelligence is KEY.

I believe this is just a temporary show of force to reassure British people.

As it is said in the article,soldiers will assist the overstretched Police forces in protecting key places and events.
Assistance to Police forces. That's what they generally do here.

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Italy also deployed soldiers to the streets.

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Same as Belgium.

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@All,

Has there been any recent development (or a decision) by UK which might be bringing "waves of terrorism" towards them? I am not scanning everything and may have missed something major altogether.
 
Not needed. Soldiers are not needed to fight terrorists in the West(including France), only a good intelligence Network, better monitoring of terror suspects and their radical Islamic hate preachers, engaging the community to route out , report and distance themselves from raducalised ones etc. This are the best way to deal with this barjbauwahse radical Islamic terrorists. What can a soldier do to be honest?
Terrorist here don't go fighting/attacking security officers/military like they do in the middle East,North Africa,o R even Asia(Philippines), they try to hide as much as possible and carry their explosives hidden to civilian areas which they consider soft targets. There is nothing much army can do when a suicide bomber like this one has succeeded in putting on his suicide vest and mingling among civilians in a crowded place to bknb himself. Only good intelligence is KEY.

I believe this is just a temporary show of force to reassure British people.
i think its to show re assurance to the public that the "big guns" are out honestly it makes no sense as theres already armed police. and what cant the armed police do that army can?
has someone been reading the daily mail again?
 

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