The current threat of a terror attack on UK soil is “smoldering,” counter-terror chiefs have warned, with three late-stage attacks foiled in the past 12 months.
Vicki Evans, the Senior National Coordinator of Counter Terrorism Policing, said today some 43 late-stage terror plots had been stopped since 2017, some of which were “goal line saves”. Of the three this year, two were Islamist plots and one was from the far right.
Ms Evans said the current threat is classed as “likely” amid the fallout in Syria, where dictator Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown. She said: “History tells us that any instability creates space for extreme violence and acts of terror.
You would expect me to be rightly concerned that we could have a growing void that could and may create that in those spaces”.
The counterterrorism chief said ISIS is not the force it once was but that groups like them “capitalize on the chaos and galvanize support,” which can lead to a “change in threat level.”
She flagged that an increasingly common trait they are seeing in case loads is the “growing fascination with extreme violence and content”. She said the type of material they are encountering – […]
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