This is an excerpt from an article authored by Anthony Glees. Mr. Glees is director for the Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies.
CAMPUS JIHAD IN THE UK
LONDON — U.K. intelligence officials have just provided a chilling assessment of the terrorist threat Britain faces. The country has become "al Qaeda target No. 1," security sources told me, confirming last week's press reports. Intelligence services now judge Britain's "home grown" terrorists to be organized, trained and controlled either directly from Pakistan or via Pakistani networks in Britain.
Until now, intelligence services thought British Islamist terrorists had no hard links to al Qaeda despite sharing its ideology. "Clean skins" in the security jargon, they were believed to have acted alone or in self-constructed cells. This theory was the product of what MI5 thought it knew about the terrorists before last year's July 7 bombings, which was far too little. Just two months before the attacks, MI5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Center concluded, "there is not a group with both the current intent and capability to attack the U.K."
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Comments: 7
I believe the British will have less problems dealing with it than we will here because of the ACLU et al blocking every attempt to moniter them, their contacts, and their fund-raising. Or at least make sure all is published in the NYT.
I pray that the British government listens and takes what ever steps are necessay although their laws make their job much easier than people would make it for the US.
This little bit is bad enough, but just think what it would be like if most of them weren't busy fighting us in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would be able to concentrate on the U.S. and Europe and if allowed to take over Iraq, by us leaving, would have its oil wealth to fund their efforts. We would be up to our bottoms in terrorists in that event.
We do seem headed that way, what with the Dems sure they will take control of Congress and in 2008 gain the White House. So we will probably find out for sure what happens when we give them Iraq in a couple of years.
Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"