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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Let the pissing contest between ISIS and AQ begin. Meanwhile the leftists continue to tell us Christianity is the real enemy. BULLCRAP, we need Crusades now.
"This is why we have disarmed our law-abiding citizens."
And I wonder if any of these terrorists received training or arms from the US courtesy of Obama and John McCain.
Does this mean they are declaring war?
it will take another 9-11 type attack in the US to once again wake people up.
Isaiah 17:1 - Woe to Damascus. It has been taken away from being a city, it has become a ruinous heap.
Pray for the Pease of Jerusalem.
You got all the power you need on the books. The problem is refusal to use it so you can get even more..
“Militants planning mass casualty attacks against West”
This is only breaking news to a liberal idiot. Sane people have known this since the 1990’s. And until every one of them is exterminated from the earth, I doubt there will ever be a time they are NOT planning mass casualty attacks against the West!
Don’t forget, Israel is considered “West” .. and they’re closer than the USA or the UK.
But .. Isaiah 17:1 should work.
Amazing that without this Islamic threat the elites wouldn’t have much of anything to deprive us of our rights. Convenient.
Sadly, this is good news. We will eventually be forced to start exterminating Islam jihadis en masse. This would just light the fire.
Do you really think another 9-eleven would change anything long term? Americans only have short term memory. Seen it time and time again, haven’t you?
I carry two extra magazines now.
I thought that ISIS and al Queda were partners now and no longer mutually exclusive.
We need emergency impeachments most of all, get these libs OUT of office ASAP NOW NOW NOW! because this is the absolute worst time to have idiots like this in office. Congress is absolutely insane allowing Obama to serve one more day, and this idiot in New York city DeBlasio making the city an open target again incredibly making cops of all people the enemy. This jackass dismantled the NYPDs terror task force and people in that city are cool with that? What was that Darryl Worley song? Have you forgotten? The people in that city not only forgot they’re saying do it AGAIN even AFTER a muzzie tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square even AFTER 2 muzzies blew up bombs at the Boston marathon these jackasses STILL elected a radical! WTF?
Send them all back!
...”Does this mean they are declaring war?”....
They’ve never NOT called it war against us. Our politicians are the only ones who won’t call it what it is because then they have to do something about it other than call it “criminal acts”.
Prepare for mass surveillance of Tea Party groups.
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