Bungling incompetent Britain vs. terror

By Jasu Diaz —

When U.K. authorities released on bail seven terror suspects tied to Iran after they were apprehended in September outside an air force base that housed American B-1 bombers, President Donald Trump was dismayed: “I wouldn’t have done that.”

Once the world’s leader, Britain has descended to soft power and then even lower to bungling incompetent.

“Everything that we are seeing from politicians to civil servants makes no sense,” U.K. journalist Mayhar Tousi said even prior to the latest plot. “It feels like this country is not just weak. I don’t think it knows what it wants. Have we gone stupid?”

After disrupting 15 Iranian assassination attempts, Britain was still unable to bring itself to designate the IRGC a terrorist organization, as has done the U.S., the European Union, Australia, Canada and some other 25 nations.

In a case of too little too late, the U.K. just dinged the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with a lesser designation, “a state threat.”

On Sept. 27, five masked men in white vans with gasoline tanks were arrested outside RAF Fairford, one of the few European airfields capable of accommodating America’s heavy strategic bombers, including B-1s and B-52s. In early October, another two IRGC-linked suspects were arrested, and authorities said the plot was likely coordinated by Iran.

Then they released all suspects on bond.

The U.S. moved about a dozen bombers back to America.

In other news, the granddaddy of all the terrorist splinter groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, is banned in the nation of its origin, Egypt, in Saudi Arabia, in UAE, in Bahrain, in Syria, in Tajikistan, in Kazakhstan, in Russia and in Jordan.

And the United Kingdom? That’s where the Muslim Brotherhood has their main office.

In 2015, then-Prime Minister David Cameron’s government completed an investigation that found the Brotherhood had established a network of organizations in Britain, some of which were being used to coordinate activities overseas.

Cameron concluded that aspects of the Brotherhood’s ideology and activities conflicted with British democratic values and that association with the movement could indicate extremism.

Nevertheless, Britain did not outlaw the organization.

After 15 plots and the latest against American bombers, can Britain figure out that the IRGC is not comprised of good guys?