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Counter-terror plans will be revised to reflect Fort Hood and
Afghan attacks
London
Times
Friday, Nov 6th, 2009
A soldier turning on his comrades at Fort Hood,
an Afghan policeman killing the British soldiers who trained
him - two uncannily similar events in two days, but incidents
which, across the Western world, security authorities have been
planning for and dreading.
Since the Mumbai attacks counter-terrorism planning has seen
a major shift. Those charged with thwarting or reacting to future
terror attacks were alarmed by Mumbai. The shootings in Afghanistan
and Fort Hood carry echoes of the atttacks in India with the
added danger that the enemy has come from within.
The new-style of attack relies not on the suicide bomb, or
the al-Qaeda adherence to massive casualties, but on the shock
of a gunman, or a handful of gunmen, opening fire in a place
where people felt safe and secure - the luxury hotel, the police
base, the US Army camp.
Lord West, the Security Minister, told a Commons committee
last month that the prospect of such an attack in Britain was
at the forefront of his mind. The minister said he and his team
were "doing a lot of work" on "the Mumbai issue".
He painted a bleak (and rather prophetic) picture of what might
happen: "It is extremely difficult in an open society to
stop there being initial casualties, if you have some men who
have been trained to military standard, three or four of them,
with relatively heavy weapons.
"The damage they can cause in the first few minutes is
dramatic. One has to use other methods of intelligence and the
agencies and all of these sorts of things; because if it gets
to the stage where they are actually on their 159 bus going
up Whitehall carrying that [firepower] you have got a problem."
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