Posted on 01/08/2015 5:55:24 PM PST by Mount Athos
The head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 warned on Thursday that militant Islamists in Syria were planning "mass casualty attacks" in the West and that intelligence services may be powerless to stop them.
"We know... that a group of core al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West," Andrew Parker told journalists in London a day after an Islamist attack in Paris claimed 12 lives.
"Although we and our partners try our utmost, we know that we cannot hope to stop everything," he added.
Parker said that fighters returning to the West from the civil war in Syria were in danger of bringing with them a "twisted ideology" that could lead them to carry out attacks on famous landmarks at home.
Although Islamic State (IS) presented the most obvious threat, fighters aligned with the core of al-Qaeda were also a danger.
"We still face more complex and ambitious plots that follow the now sadly well-established approach of al-Qaeda and its imitators -- attempts to cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets," he said.
The MI5 director general earlier said the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was a "terrible reminder" of the threat facing Western nations, revealing that his agency had helped stop three terror plots "in recent months alone".
Parker called for wider powers to identify and monitor suspects, following a backlash against the security services after the extent of their snooping was exposed by Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor.
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France: Muslims segregate themselves from society in growing Islamic mini-states
January 8, 2015 1:15 pm By Robert Spencer
Dust off your burkas ... or have any of the leftists/liberal ladies come to their senses, if not, dust off your burkas leftists/liberal ladies.
Prepare for mass surveillance of Tea Party groups.
Don’t you think that is already going on? Just like the surveillance here?
OK. Game on. The second amendment was custom written for just these situations fellas.
Be berry berry quiet ... you might wake someone up .... {{HUGS}} Soup!
I see you had a conversation with a stupid lib 30 minutes ago.
Bin Laden already did. One of his brothers, who taught at Harvard, went on TV after 9/11 and commented about taking on the most powerful nation in the world...and winning.
The Bin Ladens were then whisked out to Saudi.
Old man Bin Laden builds/built the Saudi palaces. The family is chock full of billionaires.
3.2.1...
ISIS and AlQaeda have always been two heads on the same monster. They have merely differed on timing and means.
LOL ... Pay attention, please.
I totally agree.
Amen. They have all the power and all the intel needed to stop IS and AQ. But refuse to use it....
Lord, answer your phone, please.
Steve Emerson’s interactive map:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/maps/terrorism-map.php
People won’t wake up. After 9-11 they elected a muslim president first chance they got.
Don't mean to be picky, but it's usually written, 9/11.
yes, Lord, knew it all along ... May we keep the same banner we held in the last war, please?
0bama promised us they would stop attacking as soon as we left Iraq.
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