"Around 850 Britons are thought to have travelled to Syria since 2011. Around 120 are believed dead fighting for groups including Islamic State and around half those remaining are thought to have already returned home. Police and security leaders have in the past warned of the prospect of battle-hardened jihadists returning to continue their struggle by carrying out attacks on the streets of Britain."
Current Head of MI5:
“Andrew Parker said the country was now facing an intense threat from violent Islamist extremists who were devising plots at a tempo he had not seen before in his 34-year-career.”
Former MI6 bloke:
“Richard Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6, said Britons had gone to Syria for “highly individual” reasons.
He said: “Many of them went to join something, join something new, something that looked bright and attractive and satisfied some of the needs in their lives and probably found that didn’t exist out there and so came back highly disillusioned.
“Also someone going off to join the Islamic state is not likely initially to be somebody going off to be a domestic terrorist, they seem to me to be two different motivations.””
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It rather seems that it is a good thing that Richard Barrett is a former counter-terrorism director, his comment “someone going off to join the Islamic state is not likely initially to be somebody going off to be a domestic terrorist, they seem to me to be two different motivations.” Seems ludicrous… unless you define “different motivations” as “whether you prefer to murder people at home or abroad”. It’s all jihad, only the postcode differs.
Current Head of MI5:
“Andrew Parker said the country was now facing an intense threat from violent Islamist extremists who were devising plots at a tempo he had not seen before in his 34-year-career.”
Former MI6 bloke:
“Richard Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6, said Britons had gone to Syria for “highly individual” reasons.
He said: “Many of them went to join something, join something new, something that looked bright and attractive and satisfied some of the needs in their lives and probably found that didn’t exist out there and so came back highly disillusioned.
“Also someone going off to join the Islamic state is not likely initially to be somebody going off to be a domestic terrorist, they seem to me to be two different motivations.””
http://ift.tt/2ytGsNZ
It rather seems that it is a good thing that Richard Barrett is a former counter-terrorism director, his comment “someone going off to join the Islamic state is not likely initially to be somebody going off to be a domestic terrorist, they seem to me to be two different motivations.” Seems ludicrous… unless you define “different motivations” as “whether you prefer to murder people at home or abroad”. It’s all jihad, only the postcode differs.
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