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Brown: Three-Fourths of Terror Plots Come From Pakistan

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The prime minister of Britain, acting on a report about where MI5 determines that terror plots against the UK originate, and understandably still rattled after the Pakistan-based attack launched on Mumbai, told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that the buck needs to stop with him. From the Telegraph:

    “On a visit to Islamabad, the Prime Minister delived a blunt demand to President Ali Asif Zardari to improve his goverment’s work to prevent al-Qaeda and other groups operating in the lawless area that borders Afghanistan.


    ‘The time has come for action not words,’ Mr Brown told Mr Zardari.


    At a press conference, Mr Brown revealed that he had told Mr Zardari that ‘three quarters of the most serious plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaeda in Pakistan’.


    …In a private meeting Mr Brown told Mr Zardari he must do more to close those camps.


    …Mr Brown also announced increased British support for Pakistani counter-terrorism work, including greater support for Pakistani police work on detecting and defusing bombs.


    …There will also be a £6 million British fund to help Pakistan counter the radicalization of young Muslims.”


The terror-plot ratio averages out to about 21 of the 30 or so plots ongoing at any given time having links to Pakistan.


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admin @ December 16, 2008

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