Army steps in as London 2012 defense plan falls short

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With just 16 days before the Olympic Games kick off in London, there's been a major hitch in the much-hyped security plans. Thousands of extra British soliders have had to be drafted in after a private firm failed to supply promised guards. The company's been paid almost 300 million pounds - but hasn't trained enough staff. RT's Sara Firth has more.

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Is this for the olympic games or for a bloody war?

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This looks like the beginning of some movie...crazy...

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Is this for the olympic games or for a bloody war?

We'll know in a couple of weeks.

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The british airways tv advert gives me the creeps....'london calling' by the clash?......are they giving us the outcome on a silver platter?

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Is this for the olympic games or for a bloody war?

They're going to be going around "securing" the areas......

.....as the war is ignited in Iran..........October.... .......what date is the most symbolic for the Jews???

.....optional False Flag Scenarios prepared for additional justification for entering into global warfare,

.....NATO and Israel are orchestrating this ....while US and rest of globe's protesters are lured off into la-la land for the distraction away from preparing themselves for this major act of treason......and the wars to follow.

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Has there been anywhere near this much security at past olympic games? i know that they dont usually bring missles to sporting events but seriously everyone must realize that this looks suspicious. Or is this just another fear mongering task that makes it look like we're all so vulnerable to terrorist action? I personally think that there is going to be another event taking place much like 9-11 but in a much larger scale...

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They should have at least 2 nuclear warheads on standby...Just in case

[mediasorcery Profile]

Is this for the olympic games or for a bloody war?

We'll know in a couple of weeks.

glad im nowhere near it, and im not the slightest bit interested in it either except as a curiosity , its just a showpony for very fit junkies.

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The Unreachable Olympic Ideal

Since the eighth century, the Olympic Games have been accompanied by the declaration of an international truce. All nations are called upon to halt war from seven days before the games to seven days afterward, allowing participants and spectators to travel to and from the Olympics safely.


As the world stares terrorism and nuclear, biological and chemical Armageddon in the face, this truce is easily appreciated.

“The Olympic Truce means no war for 16 days during the Olympics, and hopefully no war beyond,” said Greek Ambassador at Large Stavros Lambrinidis, director of the International Olympic Truce Center, concerning this summer’s. “It doesn’t help much to stop fighting for two weeks, then go back to killing each other”.

The Olympics are intended to promote the ideals of peace and unity between people and nations. Every four years, the Olympics are held with the hope of illustrating friendship and fraternity in a desire for peace. The official Olympics website calls the games “the greatest celebration of humanity, an event of joy and optimism to which the whole world is invited to compete peacefully”.

The Olympics, like few other events, portrays the human desire for peace. But at the same time, they reveal that man, of and by himself, is utterly incapable of ever reaching that lofty and magnificent goal.

The history of the Olympics demonstrates this fact. A brief look at the Olympics since they were reintroduced in 1896 shows the true heart of man.

A Troubled History...

The Berlin 1936 games, essentially commandeered by Hitler, were turned into a showcase of Aryan supremacy despite the wondrous achievements of a black American, Jesse Owens. Germany walked away with the largest number of medals, fueling the disastrous rise of German nationalism at home and abroad.

Sixteen years on, flying in the face of the ideals of peace and unity, the 1952 games in Helsinki, Finland, saw the growing seeds of the Cold War when Russia and the nations trapped behind the Iron Curtain were permitted to build their own Olympic Village, keeping their athletes separate from the West—a clear demonstration of hostility and mistrust. For 30 more years, Communist nations used the games to demonstrate their strength and desire for global dominance.

From the 1956 Melbourne games came the seeds of international politicization of the event. That year, the Netherlands and Spain pulled their teams because of the Russian invasion of Budapest, Hungary; Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq withdrew their teams in response to the Suez crisis, which was coordinated by Britain and France. China also withdrew because Taiwan was permitted to compete.

Despite the idea that politics was not to enter the Olympics arena, South Africa was kept from competing in the 1964 games in Tokyo because its team consisted of only white athletes—it refused to condemn apartheid.

Within just two weeks of the 1972 Munich games, 20 countries vowed to withdraw if Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was permitted to compete. And on the 11th day of the Olympics, terror ripped through the very games designed to promote peace. Terrorists from the Palestinian terrorist group “Black September”‘ commandeered the Israeli team’s residences, and the resulting shootout with police left 11 Israeli athletes dead.

In the 1976 Montreal games, the dispute over the legitimacy of Taiwan came up again. The United States threatened to pull its athletes until a compromise was reached permitting Taiwan to fly its flag and play its anthem but not permitting it to compete under the name China. When the dust finally cleared, Taiwan pulled its team anyway and went home. That same year, more than 20 African nations as well as Guyana and Iraq stated they would pull their teams if New Zealand was permitted to compete. The issue: The New Zealand rugby team had toured in racially segregated South Africa earlier in the year.

Then came the famous 1980 boycott of the Moscow games. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 62 nations, including the United States, boycotted the games.

Of course, we must not forget the huge vote-buying scandal over the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics as well as the $13 million in Olympic funds the Chinese have already misappropriated in their preparation for the 2008 games.

So much for the demonstration of peace, unity and fraternity!