Al Qaeda and ISIS ‘still planning attacks in the UK’

The UK is still at threat of terror attacks, with ISIS and Al Qaeda seeking to plan and enable extremist strikes, the government’s updated anti-terrorism strategy is set to warn.

The long-awaited update to Contest, the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, will be unveiled by Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday.

Ms Braverman will warn the threat of Islamist terrorism is the “most severe” in the UK, adding that it makes up three quarters of MI5’s workload.
The fragmentation of extremist activity has made it more difficult to track and investigate, and inspiration for attacks now often takes place online, she will say.

There are about 800 live investigations and counter-terrorism police last year made 169 arrests.

About 39 terror attacks in late stages of planning were prevented by intelligence agencies and law enforcement, with most of them Islamist.

Two plots were foiled in the past seven months.

“Islamist terrorism remains the predominant threat,” Ms Braverman will warn in her speech. “Terrorism is becoming increasingly unpredictable, making cases harder to detect and investigate.”

Iraqi troops helped to uncover an ISIS attack on a public gathering in the UK.

Source » thenationalnews.com