Yesterday, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency, MI5 and Prime Minister Tony Blair warned the British public that the threat of Islamic terrorist attacks could "last a generation." In fact, Dame Eliza pointed to about 30 terrorist conspiracies currently under investigation that could include "the use of chemicals, bacteriological agents, radioactive materials and even nuclear technology.”
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Perhaps the Muslim world really is bonkers and plagued by lunatics who live to blow themselves up. These people, assuming these threats are real, seriously need to get themselves a new hobby.
Having spent most of my life under threat from the communists and their dominoes and A-Bombs, I'm really growing a little weary of government warnings.
But governments clearly aren't going to cooperate.
In fact, while the media was focused on the Muslim threat outlined by 
Manningham-Buller and Blair, a former British government official was warning of alien attack--no, not Mexicans, Extra-terrestrials.
Nick Pope, who ran the British Ministry of Defense UFO project from 1991 to 1994 says that there have been a series of "highly credible" alien sightings and landings in the UK, but that the focus on Islam is diverting resources from this even more compelling threat.
"The consequences of getting this one wrong could be huge," explains Pope.
"Frankly, we are wide open--if something does not behave like a conventional aircraft now, it will be ignored.
Pope is deeply concerned that while official eyes are focused on Muslims, the real threat to British security may well sneak in with devastating results.
By the way, whatever happened to mad cow and bird flu?
"Fear is the mind-killer."
-Dune
Posted by: astroworf | Saturday, 11 November 2006 at 03:36 PM