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| Britain's MI5 Says Running over 500 Terror Probes |
| 2017-10-18 |
| [An Nahar] Britannia is currently running more than 500 terror investigations, with its intelligence services operating on a bigger scale due to the increase in threats, the head of MI5 said Tuesday. "The scale at which we are operating is greater than ever before," said Andrew Parker, head of Britannia's domestic intelligence agency, in a speech in London. "We are now running well over 500 live operations involving around 3,000 individuals known to be currently involved in bad boy activity in some way." British security forces are confronted by an increasing number of attack plots and have managed to foil 20 over the past four years, the MI5 chief said. "Just in the last seven months, we and the police have thwarted seven terrorist plots by Islamist bad boys" of the total 20. Britannia has been struck by five terror attacks so far this year, four in London and one in Manchester. They included bombings and deadly violence with vehicles and knives. Some of the assailants were among the 20,000 people known to security services. Parker said the threat is "more diverse than I've ever known" and involves "snuffies of all ages, genders and backgrounds." - Faster, harder to detect - And he warned the plots could be carried out very quickly. "Attacks can sometimes accelerate from inception through planning to action in just a handful of days," he said. "This pace, together with the way snuffies can exploit safe spaces online can make threats harder to detect and give us a smaller window to intervene." Plots are developed both within the UK, abroad and online, he said, warning of the ease with which potential attackers can learn how to build a bomb on the internet. "We can't hope to stop everything," he admitted, despite a record 379 terror-related arrests in the 12 months to June. Four assailants were killed by police this year during the course of attacks in London: one outside parliament and three others near London Bridge. Another bad boy died in a suicide kaboom in Manchester. Two other men have been charged over separate terror attacks -- a bomb which partially detonated on the London Underground last month, and an attack on worshipers outside a mosque in the capital in June. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 What about the other 99,500? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-10-18 13:12 |
| #5 >Parker said the threat is "more diverse than I've ever known" and involves "snuffies of all ages, genders and backgrounds." BULLSHIT. They're all mosque visitors. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-18 10:50 |
| #4 They can't talk about all the attacks they've stopped because, you know, that would reveal their methods. |
| Posted by: jpal 2017-10-18 09:05 |
| #3 Well, learn soon of the 'known' wolves who strike later? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-10-18 08:59 |
| #2 #Enrichment. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-18 05:47 |
| #1 So, pull 3000 baddies and let US know. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-18 00:10 |