MI5 says kids groomed for terror attacks

AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/05/07 | David Stringer - ap

[NormsRevenge]

LONDON - Extremists are grooming children and teenagers to plot terrorist attacks against Britain, the director of the domestic spy agency said Monday.

But Jonathan Evans, making his first public speech since becoming director-general of Britain's MI5 agency in April, said vital resources needed to tackle terrorism are being diverted to counter the espionage threat from Russia and China.

"Terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country," Evans said, according to a text of his speech in Manchester, England. "They are radicalizing, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism."

Testimony from a U.S. terrorist-turned-witness in British court cases has revealed how young Britons are trained for attacks at terrorist camps in tribal areas of Pakistan.

Evans said though Pakistan remains a key training ground for Britons, similar centers are emerging elsewhere. Al-Qaida in Iraq is attempting to stage attacks outside Iraq and parts of East Africa, particularly Somalia, have become a key area for training and planning of attacks on Britain, he said.

Evans said thwarting plots alone is not enough to stop the threat of extremist terrorism, and urged the government and society to counter the message of radical preachers.

"If we only react tactically while our enemies plan strategically, we shall be hard put to win this. A key part of our strategy must be perseverance," Evans said at a newspaper editors' conference. "It starts with rejection of the violent extremist ideology across society."

He said al-Qaida "has a clear determination to mount terrorist attacks against the United Kingdom."

But Evans warned that efforts to tackle terrorism are being stalled by work to halt foreign intelligence agents from stealing sensitive information on civilian and military technology. He singled out agents from Russia and China.

"So, despite the Cold War ending nearly two decades ago, my service is still expending resources to defend the U.K. against unreconstructed attempts by Russia, China and others, to spy on us," he said.

Officials at the Russian Embassy in London were not immediately available for comment.

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to the 21st Century, kids.

[NormsRevenge]

Nothing new, been going on for years.

[NormsRevenge]

Jonathan Evans, the Director General of MI5, the UK's domestic security and counter-intelligence service, addresses the Society of Editors Annual Conference 2007, in Manchester, England, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Extremists are grooming children and teenagers to plot terrorist attacks against Britain, the director of the domestic spy agency said in a rare public speech Monday. Jonathan Evans, who became head of MI5 agency in April, also warned that vital resources needed to tackle terrorism are being diverted to counter the espionage threat from Russia and China. (AP Photo/Manchester Evening News/pool)

[Diogenesis]

The British fish rots from the head, down.

[rockabyebaby]

Yep, let’s keep our borders WIDE OPEN.....

[NormsRevenge]

Remember when? The sun never sets on the British Empire. (what a legacy they and the FRench and the peacemakers left around the world.)

Then it was, Embrace your enemies and keep them close.

All the time, the Gods were saying ,, What fools these mortals be.

It is a slow process and once one detects the odor, it is too late to stop much less reverse the process.

[NormsRevenge]

Oh , we are,, wide open, no matter how much our leaders say otherwise... and have for years.

[freeangel]

Coming soon to a city in the US near you, compliments of Saudi financed mosques.

[Augustinian monk]

What a clown Prince CHalres is. The perfect example of everything wrong with the UK.

[esarlls3]

"It starts with rejection of the violent extremist ideology across society."

Coming soon to a city in the US near you, compliments of Saudi financed mosques.

See Orson Scott Card: Civilized Religion: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921256/posts

[usurper]

Coming soon to a city in the US near you, compliments of Saudi financed mosques.

Yep and the British Jihadies can travel here without counselor screening with a visa waver.

[Plutarch]

MR. RUSSERT: You made a comment the other day in South Carolina, said, “Fred Thompson said the Iraqi insurgency is made up of ‘a bunch of kids with improvised explosive devices,’ and suggested that the appearance of losing to such an enemy would harm U.S. national security.” As you know, we’ve lost 3,834 kids; 28,385 wounded or injured, 65 percent of them by these improvised devices.

MR. THOMPSON: Yeah.

MR. RUSSERT: It’s more than just a bunch of kids...

[NormsRevenge]

I caught that snip about kids..

makes ya wonder who ‘the kids’ are here at home..and in the media