Twenty ‘major conspiracies’ by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed, reports The Sunday Times.
Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police and MI5 are fully stretched and cannot divert their precious counter-terrorism resources to a lengthy public inquiry into last year’s London suicide bombings.
Reid revealed the existence of the plots ‘ far more than have previously been reported ‘ at a meeting with some of the victims’ relatives and survivors of the attacks last week.
He failed to give further details but the claim appears to fit in with briefings by MI5 which suggest that as many as 1,200 potential terrorist suspects may now be in the UK.
One of the operations is thought to have been the target of raids by hundreds of police officers last week. Anti-terrorist police believe they may have thwarted a wave of suicide bomb attacks on British and US forces in Iraq.
The police arrested eight men during the armed raids. The men, all from Libya, were being held on suspicion of encouraging and financing Al-Qaeda operation abroad.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, has said previously that security services have foiled three attacks by Al-Qaeda terrorists since the July 7 suicide bombings. Reid may also have been including at least three more alleged plots where charges are current.
England harbors a lot of extremist Muslim immigrants. One of Europe’s main problems is that it has ignored radical Islam for much too long. 9/11 should have been a wake-up call for Europe. Instead it only triggered a temporary response from the general public.
The country in which fundamentalists protested the fiercest was in England. One may recall extremist Muslims protesting on the streets of London, carrying signs on which they threatened Denmark specifically and other European countries in general.
For much too long Europe believed that Arab immigrants would automatically adopt European values and would adapt to the European way of life. This was a major mistake. More and more information is coming out that individuals who are born in Western Europe turn against Democracy. In short; the information, John Reid provided, is not as much ‘news’ as it is an indication of the problems being faced by the Europe are with regards to islamo-fascism.
Thanks: The Moderate Voice
