"Al-Qa'ida is deliberately "grooming" children and young people to carry out terror attacks in Britain, the head of MI5 warned today.
In his first public speech since becoming director-general in April, Jonathan Evans said the security service was facing "the most immediate and acute peacetime threat" in its 98-year history.
Addressing a Society of Editors Conference in Manchester, he said the number of individuals in Britain identified by MI5 as having links with terrorism had risen from 1,600 last year to at least 2,000.
And he said they suspected there could be a similar number again who they did not know about.
Mr Evans warned they were part of a "deliberate campaign" being waged against Britain by al-Qa'ida - which was extending its tentacles across the Middle East and Africa.
"Terrorist attacks we have seen against the UK are not simply random plots by disparate and fragmented groups," he said.
"The majority of these attacks, successful or otherwise, have taken place because al-Qa'ida has a clear determination to mount terrorist attacks against the United Kingdom.
"This remains the case today, and there is no sign of it reducing."
And they are doing precisely WHAT to combat this?
They know the number of cult fanatics is growing, perhaps because they've been inviting in the cheap labor the same way the veggie-mafia does here, then bitching when things don't turn out all that swell.
Old timers used to call it closing the barn door after the horse done skedaddled out.
Might want to rethink that porous border, hoss.
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