Islamic State (IS) fanatics have identified Britain as their next target, a security expert has warned.
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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”.
Mr Cruickshank, who has reported extensively on al Qaeda, ISIS, and other Jihadi groups, said there was: “Real concern now about the threat to the United Kingdom” before adding “Concern in Europe, particularly in the UK now that what we saw in Paris, an attack like that, could play out again, perhaps in the United Kingdom, in the weeks ahead”.
His remarks to CBS come less than three weeks after ISIS militants killed 130 people in a string of attacks across Paris, and a day after 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook – who had been in touch with extremists – and his wife Tashfeen Malik fatally shot 14 at a social-work center in San Bernardino, Calif.
The official said he believed ISIS might not welcome him back into the fold, even if he was able to reach Syria.
‘A large proportion were previously unknown to the police and security agencies, ‘ the report said.
“These concerns have been compounded by that vote yesterday in the British House of Commons authorising British airstrikes for the first time against ISIS in Syria”.
Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said that Davies was arrested after Turkish and British intelligence worked together to track an IS member linked to British extremist Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed in the media as “Jihadi John”. Last night, more RAF aircraft took off for missions over Syria.
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“We’re going to continue to push hard and the good news is, coming out of Paris, we’re seeing countries like Germany and Great Britain that had been hesitant about getting too actively involved in Syria, realizing that they have to be part of the solution here”, Mr. Obama said.
