Originally Posted by
thegent
Quite difficult to cut someone's head off when they don't want you to. Similarly, obtaining sufficient fertiliser to manufacture a bomb is a problem for them as indeed is it a challenge to make a bomb that works consistently. Also, it's difficult to conceal one's militancy within a British suburb or urban location from others who inform regularly.
The notion that Britain is somehow more vulnerable because of Iraq etc is quite silly and used regularly to sustain political aims.
Gangsta Jihad, indeed, yeah, innit mate, check pleeeeease!
Anyway, the NHS kills more folk in one year than all terrorist actions over the past 200 years. Remember, perspective is all.
Difficult?? ISIS and various other AQ outfits have managed to cut off quite a few including an American journalist (Foley) just the other day.
We had a fellow hacked to death in London quite recently, in broad daylight, on a busy roadway, and I seem to remember 50 or so dead and many injured in the bombing of the Underground. All carried out by rank amateurs; but the guys currently Jihading in Syria and Iraq are going to be pretty battle hardened and quite likely trained in such diverse skills as beheading bomb making.
People who are organized and have "connections" can get explosives and weapons, however much the dumbed down and tuned out UK populace may think otherwise.
The Provisional IRA did not have much of a problem and managed to do some pretty serious shit at home and abroad.
It's not likely that these Jihadist devotees are capable of a large scale and sustained campaign, but they could cause some real mayhem in major urban areas; ....it would not take that that much, as long as the determination is there, and these guys are total fanatics...with training and experience.