Intelligence officers have identified 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers, it emerged yesterday. The scale of the challenge facing the police and security services was disclosed by Whitehall sources after criticism that multiple opportunities to stop the Manchester bomber had been missed.
About 3,000 people from the total group are judged to pose a threat and are under investigation or active monitoring in 500 operations being run by police and intelligence services. The 20,000 others have featured in previous inquiries and are categorised as posing a “residual risk”. READ MORE
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Should prove for an interesting summer. Don’t vacation in the UK this summer!
Yesterday was the first day of Ramadan and some think the cyber attack on British Airways computer system may be linked to terrorism, but who knows? They have promised more attacks in honor of Ramadan….I love the UK, but I think I’ll be vacationing in my home country of USA this year…