Glasgow attack - The US knew 2 weeks ago...

[Gromit]

Apparently, the US knew about the threat to Glasgow Airport 2 weeks ago, but failed to pass on the info.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/07/02/nterror1102.xml

And now Brown is carrying on where Blair left off.

Any connection?

[sp1814]

Gromit

Authorities monitoring terrorist suspects are flooded with what is known as 'chatter'. It's the background noise which often disguises real information and it often difficult to distinguish what is real and what is 'chatter'.

There are literally hundreds of lines of chatter which have to be filtered every day. There's no reason to believe there was anything suspicious in the failure to pass the information on.

[Gromit]

Just being mischievous.

Though it coudln't have worked out better for Washington in terms of keeping Brown 'on message'.

Damn fool terrorists. I keep thinking this lot must be really dim, then we find they have started to arrest doctors.

[dot.hawkes]

During the first world war, my children's great grandmother and her elderly parents were rounded up and interred in a stadium as they were foreign nationals and the country was at war, they were held at White City Dog Track, she had been born in Fulham, her parents were from Sax -Coberg. They and thousands of others across the UK were kept in detention for the sake of national security, there was a huge camp up in lancashire near Newton-le-willows too, it was an order the Government made to protect it's people and it's service,men. It is a historical fact.

[sp1814]

Blimey dot.

That's absolutely new information to me. I had absolutely no we had interrment camps in this country. It's like a historical fact which has been deleted from the history books from the time.

So what happened to them after the war ended???

[dot.hawkes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/article s/2006/04/24/huyton_internment_camp_feature.sh tml

[dot.hawkes]

This book would be interesting:
Civilian Internment in Britain During the First World War, by Richard Noschke & Rudolf Rocker, Anglo-German Family History Society (1989)

[brionon]

It's all the fault of the West innit ?

[Pippa68]

It wouldn't surprise me, Gromit. After all, the US government allegedly knew about 9/11 for quite a while..and obviously failed to pass on that info... ;o)

[jno]

The US is hotly denying this. Any 'information' about what intelligence services know or don't know is to be taken with a pinch of salt; a lot of turf war, ass-covering and downright lying can be involved. And as sp1814 says, they get to hear so much chatter they can construct a case for anything at all - especially retrospectively.