MI5 Stretched, 20 Terrorist Plots

By Daniel Foggo and David Leppard
The Times Online

Twenty “major conspiracies” by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed.

Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police and MI5 are fully stretched and cannot divert their precious counter-terrorism resources to a lengthy public inquiry into last year’s London suicide bombings.

This author believes, like The Moderate Voice, that this is actually more of a home-grown terror. Britain is not so much ‘harbouring’ but definately ’sheltering’ many Islamic militants.

Reid revealed the existence of the plots — far more than have previously been reported — at a meeting with some of the victims’ relatives and survivors of the attacks last week.

He failed to give further details but the claim appears to fit in with briefings by MI5 which suggest that as many as 1,200 potential terrorist suspects may now be in the UK.

Again, a lot of these Islamic militants congregate in ‘ghettos’ in large cities. Bradford, London, Leeds, Manchester, all of the main British cities have enclaves of immigrants who are muslims. Activism, militancy, is all part of the package, which so far British police and secret services have declined to act against.

One of the operations is thought to have been the target of raids by hundreds of police officers last week. Anti-terrorist police believe they may have thwarted a wave of suicide bomb attacks on British and US forces in Iraq.

Interestingly, Hot Air points out that MI5 themselves estimated the amount of radical Islamists in the country last month to be at 700. The new figure is an astonishing 1,200. So are we to believe that 500 or so came in, in one month? Or that the security services have no clue?

The police arrested eight men during the armed raids. The men, all from Libya, were being held on suspicion of encouraging and financing Al-Qaeda operations abroad.