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[mogster]

Lake District

Training camps for terrorists in UK parks

Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday August 14, 2006
The Guardian

Suspected terrorists have mounted training exercises in some of the most popular areas of the national parks of England and Wales, the Guardian has learned.
Undercover detectives have watched groups of up to 20 men, some with known terrorist connections, taking part in outdoor training in the Lake District and elsewhere. The exercises have gone on sporadically for several years, but some training camps are understood to have been run in the past 12 months.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1844155,00.html

Al-Queda camps in Britain. Isn't that amazing?

"However, police believe they have clear evidence the men were preparing a mission of some sort, not enjoying a camping holiday. The surveillance is thought to have been by detectives from Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch; security sources in London confirmed they were aware of it."

I am amazed that the Guardian doesn't take the time to think aloud (or maybe ask the police) what such training may be, if it's connected with the airline attack. Did they rehearse making bombs, or did they do physical training? If they were under surveillance, why didn't the undercover detectives take photographs, or document it?

"Colin Cramphorn, chief constable of West Yorkshire, said camps would be found in the Yorkshire Dales and the western Highlands, as well as the Lakes. "They're actually pure indoctrination camps," he said in a media interview. The following day his press officer said he had been attempting merely to "make an analogy", adding: "He was not talking about camps as physical locations." As part of the inquiry into the July 7 attacks police have investigated a rafting trip to Bala in north Wales by two of the four suicide bombers made shortly before the attacks."