The British leader told reporters that “it’s my firm conviction that Britain should do so too”.
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The review highlighted that passenger jets were a primary target for militant groups and that some, including Islamic State and Al Qaeda, would try to acquire chemical, biological and radiological capabilities.
In the eastern Mediterranean, the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle joined the forces Monday.
The Paris attacks that killed 130 people have sparked sweeping searches, a maximum-level alert in Brussels and an intensified military operation against the Islamic State group that has claimed responsibility for France’s worst terror strike.
Speaking at a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande, Cameron also said he had offered France use of a British airbase in Cyprus as well as additional assistance with air-to-air refuelling.
Yet today David Cameron, who will unveil his full bombing plan on Thursday, said: “Members of Parliament will be able to take it away, consider it over the weekend, and then we go to having a full day’s debate and proper consideration, and a vote. Meanwhile, we will continue to strike this vile organization in Iraq and build the case for extending those strikes to Syria“.
President Barack Obama will stand in solidarity with French President Francois Hollande at the White House Tuesday, 11 days after the Paris attacks, in a visit complicated by Turkey’s shoot-down of a Russian warplane.
Hollande will have no easy task trying to coordinate the strategies of Washington and Moscow.
In between the two trips, Hollande is due to receive German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday night and Italy’s President Matteo Renzi on Thursday morning.
Hollande said: “We will intensify our strikes, choosing targets that will do the most damage possible to this army of terrorists”.
Labour’s anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn is against any military action but Cameron appears increasingly confident he can get enough support from Labour MPs to pass the vote, particularly after last week’s UN Security Council resolution authorising countries to “take all necessary measures” against IS.
Cameron said Britain would buy nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon submarine-hunting aircraft to help protect its nuclear deterrent and fill a gap left by a much-criticised decision to scrap the Nimrod spy-plane programme in 2010. He called for greater European Union-wide efforts to share intelligence to stop extremists.
The US-led coalition has been pounding IS targets in Syria for over a year, but France only joined the campaign in September and has concentrated its air strikes on the jihadists’ de facto capital, Raqa.
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Both the USA and France are calling for a transition that would lead to the departure of Syrian President Bashar Assad, considered by Paris as the key to a political solution.
