UK facing most severe terror threat ever, warns MI5 chief
Head of intelligence service says more attacks are inevitable as Britain sees ‘dramatic upshift’ in Islamist terrorism
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Britain is facing its most severe ever terrorist threat and fresh attacks in the country are inevitable, according to the head of Britain’s normally secretive domestic intelligence service in a rare public speech.
The spy chief said: “That threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.
The spy chief said: “That threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.”
He added: “It’s at the highest tempo I have seen in my 34-year career. Today there is more terrorist activity, coming at us more quickly, and it can be harder to detect.”
MI5 is under pressure to demonstrate its effectiveness after four Islamist terrorist attacks escaped its detection this year.
It's annoying that they had to bring Brexit into this news. The countries in Europe would still share information with the UK despite Brexit. But then, this is the Guardian.
I do agree that social media platforms need watching and sites that contribute to jihadism need to be taken down along with videos that glorify the jihadists.
Incidentally, I deliberately chose to seed this from a left wing site
NO NO!!! Nobody can talk about it. Say one bad thing about radical Islamist terrorism and you get fined or put into jail. BLASPHEMY!!!
It doesn't exist according to the American mainstream media.
Why must you resort to lies?
Why do you have no sense of humor?
I do.
I just don't find grasping at straws to support one's Islamophobia to be funny. Pathetic, more like.
Will we be next?
Not with Trump driving the bus.
This is what happens when you throw your borders wide open to the prime demographic for terrorists.