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Well, we are well into December and the run up to Christmas has been halted to a certain extent by the weather.

It has been reported that Special Forces teams are working undercover at some of the Countries largest Shopping Centres in response to potential terrorist action.

How absurd even mentioning this. It would be impossible to have such teams in every shopping centre and outlet around the country so to a certain extent the terrorist cells have valuable intelligence and will now divert possible action away from the prominent targets. It is indeed worrying that if the reports are true then it shows not how likely such an attack is but how worried the security services are about the threat.

It has been reported also that up to 60,000 Pakistanis Migrate to the UK every Year. Among them will undoubtedly be extremists with a wealth of terrorist knowledge.

India has seized Maoist material showing that they are experimenting with explosives to make more devastating bombs and devices. AQ will be doing the same and their sophistication was shown during the interception of the toner bombs on US bound aircraft.

Mumbai style attacks are worrying indeed with the terrorist having the upper hand, knowing where and when he will strike. The only way of combatting this is to have Israeli style plain clothes security in towns and cities pro filling and looking for suspicious activity. I think it will be a long time before that is socially acceptable and in the meantime we can only breathe a sigh of relief as we get through another day. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

It has been reported that dissident Republicans are targeting the Tory Party Conference in order to draw attention to their cause..

The Tory Party conference is due to take place in Birmingham in October. It was in Oct 1984 that the PIRA targeted the Tory party conference at the Grand Hotel Brighton killing 5 and injuring 34. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

Novartis in Southampton and Horsham are linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences, the largest contract vivisection lab in Europe. As a consequence demonstrations take place on Tuesdays and Fridays at varying times outside Novartis who do work on behalf of HLS.

For any security information both personal and Corporate, regarding these demos please call us. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The Government has announced that £150m has to be saved. £87m of that has been wiped from the Counter Terror budget. Units around the Country will lose £62m.

This is a frightening turn. I’m sure the budget has been cut because there is little or no activity of a terrorist nature that is making the news and therefore what do they need all the money for? The reality is that there has been little in the news BECAUSE of the money. We don’t what attacks every week in the way that Pakistan does at the moment but we could well see more with the axing of 25% of the CT budget. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the UKs application to appeal its decision in a recent finding that Stop and Search powers used as part of Counter Terror legislation breached Human Rights.

The European Court held in Jan 10 that sect 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 violates Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (right to privacy and family life)

This ruling which is now absolute has thrown Stop and Search into disarray and the Home Secretary has ordered an urgent review of the powers. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The current Threat from International Terrorism in the UK and to UK assets overseas is SEVERE. The threat level was raised from SUBSTANTIAL on the 22 Jan 2010. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

At last we are back online after a longer absence than we would have liked. As you will be able to see, the website has changed somewhat and we are now offering far more services than before.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for you patience and you can now keep up to date with security issues once again. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

2 RAF Typhoon fighters were scrambled from RAF Conningsby in Lincolnshire on the 22 Mar after unusual mid air conversation during which the words ransom and kidnap were used.

The aircraft en route from the US to Frankfurt then made a request to reduce altitude south of Reading. The RAF then scrambled and circled Kent until the aircraft had left UK airspace.

This was the 2nd time in March alone that the RAF was scrambled in response to unusual air activity.

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A 15 year old boy was killed in front of shocked commuters on Thurs 25 Mar inside Victoria station in London.

The boy was 15 year old Sofyen Ghailan. He had been involved in an ongoing knife battle between rival gangs. He was attacked by a mob during evening rush hour on Thurs and chased into the packed ticket hall cornered and repeatedly stabbed in front of shocked commuters.

His attackers fled leaving 2 knives behind at the scene. The incident was captured on CCTV and there have been 20 arrests. Some of the gang were girls and the gang is of Somali or Afro-Caribbean origin.

This again highlights the lack of respect for life that some have in todays society and a lack grasp of the problem and how to deal with it. This has moved the problem to a new level with gangs apparently care free in there pursuit of street justice.

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The UK is to set up a Maritime Control Centre to monitor shipping after new evidence shows increased electronic traffic concerning the traffic and movement of radiological material.

The Security Minister Lord West has said the increase in piracy around the Horn of Africa and the seaborne Mumbai terror attacks has highlighted the need for such a centre.

With the proliferation of freely available shipping information we feel this is a step in the right direction. Currently anyone can get information on vessel location size cargo destination and current location based on its AIS signal.

There would be absolutely nothing preventing the targeting of such vessels in our waters. Passenger vessels including ferries and cruise liners are at risk and we know from recovered intelligence that places of public gathering are a prime target. What better target than a cruise liner with 1 or 2 thousand people aboard.

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