Another false flag maybe?

Medicines stockpiled in alert for biological war strike on the UK as experts warn that such weapons could be developed in British university laboratories

Officials warned of a Mumbai-style firearms attack on a crowded place

• According to a report there are emerging fears of a terrorist attack
  
• Biological warfare can involve the release of a deadly virus or bacteria
  

By
James Slack

PUBLISHED:00:00, 27 March 2013 UPDATED: 07:31, 27 March 2013



Fear: Officials warned of the possibility of a Mumbai-style firearms attack on a crowded place

Medicine is being stockpiled in
readiness for a biological attack on a city centre or train station by
terrorists, security officials revealed yesterday.
The chilling prospect of biological warfare on our streets was included in a Home Office list of threats facing the UK.
Officials
also warned of the possibility of a Mumbai-style firearms attack on a
crowded place, and surface-to-air missiles being used to shoot down a
passenger jet.
According to
the document, handed to MPs, there are emerging fears about a
‘large-scale terrorist attack using biological agents’.
No
further information was given about the nature of the threat - but
biological warfare can involve the release of a deadly virus or
bacteria, such as smallpox.
The
Home Office report, called Contest, says: ‘We have increased the stocks
of medical supplies and put in place better plans to improve the speed
and coverage of the health response.’
Charles
Farr, head of the Home Office’s Office of Security and
Counter-Terrorism, said one potential source of biological weapons was
UK universities, where science labs use materials with a ‘dual purpose’.


Universities have been asked to improve security to prevent fanatics being able to steal the biological agents.Other current threats to the UK include:

• A doubling in the number of Westerners, including Britons, being kidnapped abroad
  

Jihadists returning from the Syrian civil war to carry out attacks in the UK

• Planes being blown out of the sky carrying UK tourists.
  

The
report said the overall threat to the UK had diversified beyond al
Qaeda plots developed from within Pakistan to other areas.
More
than 150 foreign nationals have been kidnapped by Islamist terrorist
groups since 2008, at least 13 of whom were British, the report said.
In a worrying trend, numbers last year were more than double those in 2010.

Fanatics linked to al Qaeda and other groups have received at least £40million to fund terrorism as a result.

Officials also raised the prospect of a jet carrying British passengers being shot out of the sky using surface-to-air weapons, when passing over North Africa. (and ....I ask...how would they know about this in advance)?


Threat: Charles Farr said one potential source of biological weapons was UK universities

A number of weapons have gone
missing in the chaos which followed the downfall of the Gaddafi regime
in Libya. Planes carrying Westerners are considered an attractive
target.
Concerns remain about the ‘trend for terrorists to use firearms as part of an attack’, officials said.
Specialist
teams of police and emergency services have been trained to respond to
terrorists attempting a mass casualty attack on a hotel, train station
or city centre in the UK.
The
report also warns the threat to the UK from al Qaeda allies such as al
Qaeda in the Maghreb in North Africa has heightened in the last year.
It
follows a recent warning by Sir Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, that
the chaos caused by the Arab Spring has created new terrorist training
camps for jihadis intent on attacking Britain.
Mr
Farr warned that Syria had become ‘particularly challenging” with large
numbers of foreign fighters, including from the UK, active in Syria.
Some
600 terrorist attacks involving Syrian groups took place last year,
including 60 suicide deaths. Whitehall sources have suggested there
could be 70 British fanatics who have travelled to Syria.
The fear is that they will travel back to the UK to carry out attacks here.
Mr Farr said threats from terrorism were spreading across a wider area into lawless countries with no recognised government.
The
report said: ‘This poses significant challenges to our national
security and to the security and intelligence agencies and departments
working on counter-terrorism.
‘Operating
in these areas is difficult and dangerous, requires very significant
resources and is complicated and at times made impossible by the
breakdown of governance and law and order.’
Asked
whether counter-terrorism efforts faced funding cuts, Mr Farr said: ‘I
don’t think that counter-terrorism is immune from the sort of
efficiencies being found elsewhere.

'We’re looking at every bit of counter-terrorism to identify those savings.’


Source:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299661/Medicines-stockpiled-alert-biological-war-strike-UK-experts-warn-weapons-developed-British-university-laboratories.html