On Monday afternoon local time, Britain’s Civil Nuclear Constabulary arrested suspected terrorists trying to take photos of the Cellfield Nuclear Power Plant in NW England in West Cumbria. This arrest occurred according to the Wednesday, May 4 Wall Street Journal article “Britain Arrests 5 Under Anti-Terror Laws” during a routine stop check on vehicles in the area following a stepped up alert after the bin Laden raid in Pakistan.
These men arrested this week were of South Asian origin, probably Pakistani Moslems. who might have been trying to sabotage the nuclear power plant and create a Japanese-style meltdown in revenge for the Alqueada leader’s death.
English embassies and military installations abroad were directed to review their security. David Cameron attended a meeting of the Cobra Committee, the national security group. England is in more peril than the U.S. because radical Islam has already developed a strong presence within the country. Mosques are used as a place to plan terrorist attacks.
In 1915 the saboteurs trying to stowaway during the last voyage of the doomed Lusitania were German spies. Captain Turner rounded them up after they were already at sea and held them in the brig. He was afraid that they were trying to ignite a bomb and blow a hole in the ship, which a German torpedo accomplished only a few days later.
One hundred years later England is still on alert for sabotage and surprise attack. They fear that a Lusitania-style plot is underway that could rival not only 9/11 but the sinking of the famous passenger liner on May 7, 1915 only miles from the Irish coast.
