Posted on 05/18/2015 12:33:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
JIHADI John has told UK-based followers to wage a bloody war on Britain’s streets.
The Isis executioner, who has been unmasked as British national Mohammed Emwazi, has sent dozens of secret messages to Islamic State supporters.
He urges them to carry out attacks in revenge for RAF strikes in Syria. In one encrypted message he calls on fellow Muslims to make Britain pay for killing “brothers” in Syria.
In another, the killer – who was filmed beheading hostages including Brits Alan Henning and David Haines – uses the phrase “behead the infidel”.
The messages were intercepted by codebreakers who hacked into encrypted emails at the Government’s eavesdropping base GCHQ. Spy chiefs say they suggest UK-based terrorist cells will attempt a “spectacular” attack in the next few months.
MI5 boss Andrew Parker recently briefed the Prime Minister on the imminent threat which led to last week’s clampdown on home-grown extremists who pose a threat to the UK.
The chief spook warned David Cameron an Isis attack on a major city was “effectively inevitable”.
Intelligence experts told members of the National Security Council that Britain is now a prime target.
One source said last night: “There are around 2,000 jihadis in the UK. Many of those have been members of Islamic State and have fought in Iraq and Syria.
They have come back and now pose a serious threat. “The problem for MI5 is that many jihadists have returned to the UK and have gone off the grid.
We know there are covert cells in the UK but we don’t know where they are based, who the members are or what they are planning to do.”
MI5 told senior ministers the “backwash” of jihadis returning to the UK from Syria presented a “real and present danger” to security.
One source said: “Dozens, possibly hundreds, of young men and women have returned to the UK after fighting in Iraq and Syria.
"They have been brutalised by a very bloody war.
“Some will just want to return to their old lives but others will want to bring Isis terror to the UK.
Some of these people will disappear and the next time they surface will be as part of a terror plot.”
Intelligence chiefs say worldwide Isis-inspired atrocities show the group is capable of co-ordinating attacks.
Last week 40 civilians from a minority Muslim group were executed by members of Isis in Pakistan.
And Isis extremists are fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. Attacks in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia in March were blamed on Isis fighters.
The Brits are wonderful, but a shadow of their greatness.
I guess the Brits just haven’t given them a big enough hug lately.
Liberals never, never learn.
PC propaganda. My bet is not one will want to return to his old life. That's how islam and mohammadans work.
You can bet that the jihadists have smuggled in all they need.
Myth. Utter myth.
David Cameron, the Terrorists thank you for letting them in...
Your government cannot defend all of you, all the time and everywhere, and there you sit, with a silly little cricket bat.
You would be hard put right this moment to lay hands on a simple sword.
Firstly, bad guns laws aside, they are still legal in the UK. I own two of the 2.3m legal guns in the UK.
Secondly, its a myth that the UK dosent have or outlawed self defence. I know, as I was burgled and attacked in 2008. UK self defence has never been outlawed, has always existed and in fact has been STRENGTHENED by law TWICE in the last 8 years, even by liberal Labour. In 2012, a burglar was legally stabbed to death in Manchester by a homwowner.
Sorry, but you and Freepers/Americans have fallen for the rubbish about the UK you read or hear in the US. I am trying to put that right.
Whee. Out of a population of 63 million, you have 2.3M guns.
Do you have anything like the US’s “Stand Your Ground” laws? Do you have CCW?
For all practical considerations you are defenseless.
The UK has never been a major gun public. We just aren’t.
Yes, we do. Probably not as strong as yours, given you stand your ground with a gun. I would need to go away and match them up.
Yes, we do, albeit much more restricted on the mainland, in NI its openly legal.
No, we aren’t.
Yes, most UK’ers wont defend with guns they don’t own. But the UK has a fairly high proportion of people with knives, swords. Many of us collectors.
Even if I wasn’t a gun owner, I would still have a .50 air rifle, several .177/.22 air pistols, NINE proper samurai swords, many knives (commando, flick etc), a baseball bat , a WW2 German bayonet. Not to mention kitchen knives and anything else nice and heavy and handy. Oh and my fists, lol.
Some very realistic replica guns as well: PPK, Colt 45, Automag, 44 Magnum. Even take away any sort of gun and I can defend myself.
Ok, so I am more ‘tooled up’ than the average Brit, but most UK men will have some knives and replica samurai swords knocking about. Over and above cricket/baseball bats, kitchen knives and handy blunt tools.
I get the point you make, about UK lack of guns. So most Brits may not be able to stop someone at 100/200 yards as you can en masse, but neither are we quite as helpless as you fear/think.
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