Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2014
excerpt from: Biggest threat to UK comes from Syria (*)
Returning fighters from the Syrian civil war now pose greater threat than al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan
by Christopher Hope and Tom Whitehead, Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2014
The danger faced by Britain and other countries from jihadist fighters returning from Syria is “unprecedented” and a terror attack on British soil “inevitable”, experts warned last night. […]
The threat posed by veterans from Syria is “unprecedented”, according to Gilles de Kerchove, the EU’s counter-terrorism co-ordinator. […] The EU counter-terror chief praises Britain for having developed “one of the best communication campaigns, which not only raises awareness of the phenomenon and the possible risks related to it, but also offers an alternative to those who want to go to Syria for humanitarian reasons”. […]
Raffaello Pantucci, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said: “It seems almost inevitable that some sort of a threat back to the UK will come off the battlefield in Syria, something supported by the fact that security services in the UK believe they have already disrupted at least one plot with links to Syria.”
From the archives:
London Evening Standard, 25 February 2014
excerpts from: Security chief warns of 9/11 Syria threat (*)
London Evening Standard, 25 February 2014
(*) title of the print edition
The terrorist threat caused by the war in Syriais unlike any Britain has faced since the 9/11 attacks, […] top security official [of the British government Charles Farr] warned today. […]”Syria is different from any other counter-terrorism challenge that we have faced since 9/11 — because of the number of terrorist groups now engaged in the fighting, their size and scale, the number of people from this country who are joining them, ease of travel, availability of weapons and the intensity of the conflict.”
From the archives:
Should David Cameron be prosecuted for recruiting Brits to fight in Al Qaeda ranks in Syria?
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 5 February 2014
Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs: “…Britain had been preparing gunmen to invade Syria two years before the crisis there flared up in 2011…”
Text of open advisory by renowned British Peace Activist Babs Tucker
by Parliament Square Peace Campaign, Global Research, 16 June 2013