Israel Fears Iranian Terror Attack at London 2012 Olympics

U.K. launches largest security operation in peacetime Britain.

Israel has bolstered its security presence for the London Olympics amid fears that an Iranian terror squad in Europe may be planning an attack on its athletes, according to a press report Sunday.

The coming Summer Olympics, which will kick off on Friday, mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich Games massacre, which saw terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge rejected calls for an official commemoration of the 1972 Munich Games attack during Friday’s curtain raiser, a standing request of the families of the 11 Israeli Olympic team members who died.

An estimated 50,000 VIPs will attend the Games, including a reported 140 heads of state, 200 government ministers, 100 royals and 150 members of the International Olympic Committee.

A ring of steel has been set up to protect the Games, including snipers on the stadium roof and lighting towers and airborne radiation detecting equipment.

Scotland Yard and Britain’s domestic intelligence service MI5 are believed to have raised their assessment of the threat against the Israeli delegation following last week’s suicide attack on an Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria, the Sunday Times reported.

The Israeli government has reportedly dispatched agents from its internal security service Shin Bet to protect its team of athletes.

According to a report by the Sunday Times, more than 17,000 troops and 7,000 private security guards will secure the Olympic Park and 26 other venues, and an additional 12,500 police will be deployed to patrol London’s streets in a “series of ‘rings of steel.’”

The Sunday Times reports further that “panic rooms have been installed beneath the stadium as a haven for VIPs and spectators in the event of an attack.”

Meanwhile Israel’s foreign security service Mossad is said to have sent a team, codenamed Bayonet, to Europe in search of a group of terror suspects believed to be working with Iran’s Quds force and Hezbollah.

Quds, the special operations unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, has recruited several white European Islamic converts, including two from Germany, one from Sweden and two Britons, security experts were cited as saying.

The bus bombing which killed six people in the Black Sea resort of Burgas last Wednesday has sparked fears of a repeat of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack by Palestinian gunmen in which 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed.

One of the terror suspects being sought by Israeli agents ahead of the London games is a man carrying a US passport in the name of David Jefferson, who is believed to have fled after the Bulgaria attack, the Sunday Times said.

Efraim Zinger, who leads the Israeli delegation to London  said that the security in London was nothing like that which was in place in the 1952 Munich Games. “Munich was like a summer camp compared to this. It feels like an army base here,” he told Army Radio.

As reported back in May, 2012 in an article by the Associated Press, Britain’s Defense Ministry has divulged that an acoustic device that doubles as a sonic weapon will be deployed during the 2012 Olympic Games this summer in London. This method of preparation for a potential terrorist attack at the summer Olympics comes after months of rigid military involvement and terrorist re-enactments as London prepares for the 2012 games.

In a story July 19, The Associated Press supposedly erroneously reported that the threat to the Olympic Games was pegged at “severe,” which means that a terrorist attack is “highly likely.” While Olympic officials are planning security for the games as if the threat were severe, the threat for Britain as a whole remains “substantial” – meaning that an attack is only a “strong possibility.” Britain has five levels of threat, from “low,” meaning an attack is unlikely, to “critical,” meaning an attack is imminent.


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