Al-Qaeda ‘planning big British attack’

AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West.

A couple of other aspects of this in the article from the London Times are especially interesting. Firstly, there is a strong involvement of the Shiite Iranians with mostly Sunni al Qaeda. OK – there have been many historical cases of strange bedfellows in war – anyone remember Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin? THe other thing is, that if there si enough intel to get this report out, one hopes there is enough to be able to interrupt the plans of the terrs.