BRITAIN IN THE CROSSHAIRS? – AT 10:45 A.M. ET: There are reports that Britain will be the next target of ISIS. From London's Daily Mail:
ISIS fanatics have identified the UK as their next target, a security expert has warned.
British-born jihadists who have travelled to Syria to join the extremist group have been tasked with returning home to carry out a Paris-style terror attack within weeks, it was claimed.
European security agencies have reportedly obtained 'specific intelligence' that Britain is next on the ISIS hit list, with the risk heightened in the wake of the Commons vote which saw a majority of MPs back airstrikes on the terrorists' strongholds in Syria.
In a chilling warning, CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said he had spoken to an unnamed 'senior European counter-terrorism official' who received intelligence that ISIS is 'aiming to hit the United Kingdom next'.
He said: 'The intelligence suggests that British ISIS operatives in Syria and Iraq are being tasked to return to the UK to launch an attack against the United Kingdom.
He added: 'They are treating this very, very seriously indeed' but said 'it is not clear how imminent this threat is'.
During the debate in the lead-up to the airstrike vote, MPs were told that seven ISIS plots have been foiled in the last year, with intelligence agencies warning attacks are being orchestrated from Syria.
Last month it emerged that the number of Britons who have fled the country to fight for ISIS or rebels in Syria has hit 800. The defence review said up to 400 are now back in the UK.
COMMENT: It is an ideological battle that we refuse to understand. Some of the countries hit – like France – have some of the most pro-Arab and pro-Muslim policies in the world. And yet, they are far from immune. Ideology is not interested in temporary policy changes. It is interested in total domination.
December 5, 2015 |