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Government officials were reacting with stoicism last night, after the publication of a thirty minute audio tape puported to be from Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
In the recording al-Zawahiri threatened to retaliate against Britain for giving a knighthood to 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. Asked to comment the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, insisted Rushdie's knighthood was not intended as an insult to Islam or to the prophet Mohammad, stating “if anything it's an insult to literature, i mean, have you read any of his stuff?”
After announcing the government's proposals; for indefinite detention of terrorist suspects, a range of new terrorist offences, wider use of phone-tap evidence and a shoot on sight policy for “shifty looking foreign types” in the government's one-hundred and twenty-fifth Criminal Justice Bill, the Prime Minister said -
"We will not allow terrorists to undermine the British way of life."
A spokesman for Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, said “We are currently undergoing a fundamental policy review and cannot make any definitive commitment on any possible terrorist attack on the country. In general, though, we are against it.”
Meanwhile, stocks in compass manufacturing firms crashed on hearing the news al-Zawahiri had announced the “imminent end of the West” and in the United States there were reports of panic on the streets of Charleston, West Virginia.
“There's panic on the streets of Charleston” said long-time Charleston resident Lorne Greene. “What the hell are we going to call the freakin' State now?”
In the recording al-Zawahiri threatened to retaliate against Britain for giving a knighthood to 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. Asked to comment the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, insisted Rushdie's knighthood was not intended as an insult to Islam or to the prophet Mohammad, stating “if anything it's an insult to literature, i mean, have you read any of his stuff?”
After announcing the government's proposals; for indefinite detention of terrorist suspects, a range of new terrorist offences, wider use of phone-tap evidence and a shoot on sight policy for “shifty looking foreign types” in the government's one-hundred and twenty-fifth Criminal Justice Bill, the Prime Minister said -
"We will not allow terrorists to undermine the British way of life."
A spokesman for Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, said “We are currently undergoing a fundamental policy review and cannot make any definitive commitment on any possible terrorist attack on the country. In general, though, we are against it.”
Meanwhile, stocks in compass manufacturing firms crashed on hearing the news al-Zawahiri had announced the “imminent end of the West” and in the United States there were reports of panic on the streets of Charleston, West Virginia.
“There's panic on the streets of Charleston” said long-time Charleston resident Lorne Greene. “What the hell are we going to call the freakin' State now?”
