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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“In 1979, Jimmy Carter planted the seeds of the problems “
And taking our embassy was an act of war, was it not?
The world has gone mad again.
In many ways it is starting to feel like the days leading up to WWI and WWIII
Democrats and Blacks in the USA waging a war on cops reminiscent of the commies and Bolsheviks 100 years ago.
Muslims running amok on every continent slaughtering thousands and thousands.
Weak willed western governments sucking up to muslims the same way they did with Hitler and his Nazis.
Americans and Europeans silencing (or trying to) their own fellow citizens who speak out against tyranny and dictatorship.
boy, you really make me feel ignorant of history. I will bone up.
I love that one! Very appropriate!
Called ADD
ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
Just bought two myself.
$9.85 each on bulk ammo.
500 rounds of .223 at 21.5 cents each
Try to imagine if you can that you and your family’s life depends on this man the next two years!
And sodomists RUN!
The jihadis are coming! The Jihadis are coming! The jihad....................
openly state that we hold Mecca hostage : if they attack us
we will nuke Mecca .
The big question no one answers is 'who will stand for Christ, and protect his kingdom on earth'.
If we can't say his name in public we can't save ourselves.
oh, once the hades experience begins ... the devil will make certain the sodomites are wide awake.
This is why these biker gangs go fight with the Kurds. They feel safer there than in a disarmed Europe whose police and intel services do not have their backs when they are good citizens.
Islam and this terror attack in Paris are inherently sodomitic. Bipolar leftists in the US get a chubby for this kind of things while demanding decent behavior from their own personal pool of victims and their children.
Of course leftists get killed by cousin sodomites in Islam, but like with foodstamps, they want their entitlement and are not bothered with such sado mazochist competition seeking “synthesis”
LOL! He's a friendly, trust me!
LOL (nervously) ... knew if you were arguing with a liberal and Hubby was the liberal ... Poor Hubby ...
“Lock n’ load.”
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