9 years, 4 months ago

Isis planning 'mass casualty' terror attacks in UK, head of MI5 warns

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Referring to the six thwarted attempts on British soil in the past 12 months, he said: “It may not yet have reached the high water mark and, despite the successes we have had, we can never be confident of stopping everything.” A greater ambition for “mass casualty” attacks by Isis has been observed in that time, he added. Speaking of the upcoming Investigatory Powers Bill, Mr Parker said MI5 was not seeking “sweeping new intrusive powers“ but rather a “modern legal framework that reflects the way that technology has moved on, and that allows us to continue to keep the country safe”. “Information gathered from the technology terrorists use, often in the same way as the rest of us, may sometimes be the only way to stop them,” Mr Parker added. “And so we need the tools to access terrorists' communications online just as much as we intercepted written communications and telephone calls in years gone by.” He said the ability to access and analyse data such as the who, when and where of communications, or travel and passport information, is “more important than ever before” because “we use data to save lives.” Mr Parker said “we do not, and could not, go browsing at will through the lives of innocent people”, but added: "We use these tools within a framework of strict safeguards and rigorous oversight, but without them we would not be able to keep the country safe.” Additional reporting by Press Association

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2 months ago

Ex-UK counter terrorism chief brands government plan to extend terrorism definition a ‘mistake’

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Former Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu warned violent …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

MI5 forced to shift focus from terrorism to Russia due to ‘finite capacity’

The Independent

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Britain's MI5 intelligence agency warns of growing attacks from Russia and Iran, as war in the Middle East continues

ABC

The head of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency says Russia is trying to create "mayhem" in the UK, while Iran increases its number of "potentially lethal" plots on UK soil. MI5 director general Ken McCallum said Britain was experiencing a staggering rise in assassination attempts and other crimes by Russia and Iran, with these countries allegedly recruiting criminals to "do their …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping a watchful eye on the enemies of our state

The Independent

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping a watchful eye on the enemies of our state

The Independent

Though vouchsafed by the director general of the Security Service, the fact that his organisation has “one hell of a job on its hands” is hardly a state secret. What might be called a thinly coded message from Mr McCallum is that the war between Israel and its enemies, which has led to such terrible loss of life and destruction, …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

MI5 boss Ken McCallum: UK facing heightened threat of ‘plot after plot’ from Iran and rise in Russia and Isis attacks

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Foreign Office steps up terror attack warning due to Israel-Hamas conflict

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Foreign Office has stepped up its warning to British travellers about the prospect of terrorist …

1 year, 5 months ago

MI5 boss says Chinese espionage in UK on ‘epic’ scale with 20,000 people approached by spies

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2 years, 4 months ago

MI5 head Ken McCallum: Britain faces Russian security threat ‘for years to come’

The Independent

Britain has become a particular focus of virulent animosity from Russia over its strong support for Ukraine in the war, with continuous action needed to counter the ongoing threat this poses, the director general of MI5 has warned. Giving his annual outline of threats faced by the UK, Mr McCallum said MI5 “is making the biggest shifts in a generation” …

3 years, 6 months ago

31 late-stage terror attack plots in UK foiled over past four years, MI5 chief says

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4 years, 5 months ago

Violent right-wing extremism is a ‘major threat’ in the UK, MI5 boss says

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5 years, 6 months ago

Far right poses fastest growing terror threat to UK, head of terror police says

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6 years, 3 months ago

Isis-inspired terror plot 'foiled' by armed police raid in Newcastle

The Independent

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6 years, 8 months ago

Isis and far-right extremists 'changing tactics', commission warns as study launched across England and Wales

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6 years, 9 months ago

UK suffered more terror attack deaths than any other EU country in 2017, report finds

The Independent

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6 years, 10 months ago

Intelligence services thwarting monthly terror attacks on Britain, MI5 head says

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6 years, 11 months ago

MI5 and police to be given new anti-terror powers 'to target certain high-risk communities'

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7 years ago

Police ask public to become 'counter-terrorism citizens' to help stop attacks

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7 years, 2 months ago

'Remote radicalisation' is making attack plans harder to detect, warns Government's terror adviser

The Independent

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7 years, 3 months ago

Manchester attack: MI5 may have been able to stop arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi, inquiry finds

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7 years, 4 months ago

Home Office plan to give jihadis council houses and support part of 'overdue' strategy to combat terrorism

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7 years, 5 months ago

Isis and other Islamist terror groups plotting similar attack to 9/11, says US security chief

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Isis and other Islamist …

7 years, 5 months ago

UK terror attacks likely to increase despite Isis' defeat in Raqqa

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7 years, 5 months ago

Britain is facing a terrorist threat as unrelenting as it is unprecedented, MI5 chief warns

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7 years, 6 months ago

Terrorism putting 'unsustainable' strain on British police, says Met Commissioner Cressida Dick

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7 years, 6 months ago

Isis is stepping up its attention-grabbing atrocities to counterbalance its defeat in Iraq and Syria, where the vast majority of terror victims are

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7 years, 7 months ago

Britain faces higher threat as Isis loses fight in Syria and Iraq, security minister says

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The terror threat to Britain is increasing as Isis loses battles …

7 years, 7 months ago

Islamist attacks will threaten UK for decades, former head of MI5 warns as police say Isis is creating terror 'cult'

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Rowley said police were wrestling with an “extraordinarily diverse” range of threats, adding: …

7 years, 8 months ago

Government risks 'alienating' Muslims with response to terror attacks, watchdog warns

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7 years, 8 months ago

Isis losses in Syria and Iraq not reducing terror threat in UK, police chief warns

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7 years, 9 months ago

London terror attack: Isis claims responsibility amid group's 'call for increased attacks'

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7 years, 9 months ago

After major losses in Iraq and Syria, London terror attack is an attempt by Isis to prove it’s still a major force

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7 years, 9 months ago

London terror attacks: Questions raised about intelligence failure after decision to lower threat level

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7 years, 9 months ago

London terror attack: MI5 and police investigating whether further attack is imminent

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7 years, 10 months ago

UK security forces foiled five terror attacks since March, says report

Firstpost

UK security forces have foiled at least five terror plots since a knife-wielding man in a speeding car mowed down four pedestrians to death in March. London: British security forces have foiled at least five terror plots since a knife-wielding man in a speeding car mowed down four pedestrians to death and fatally stabbed a policeman near the UK Parliament …

8 years, 1 month ago

Isis claims propaganda 'more powerful than atomic bomb' as group forms strategy for survival

The Independent

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8 years, 4 months ago

Iraq ambulance bombings: At least 25 people killed in twin suicide attacks as Isis are forced from Mosul

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The jihadist group identified two of the bombers as …

8 years, 4 months ago

Police fear terrorists using UK black market to buy weapons for Paris-style gun attack

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8 years, 4 months ago

MI5 chief: Britain faces growing threat from Russia

CNN

Story highlights Kremlin spokesman rejects MI5 chief's claims MI5 director-general also says "there will be" terrorist attacks in the UK London CNN — Britain faces a growing threat from covert attempts at destabilization by Russia, the head of the country’s security and counter-intelligence agency MI5 has said. Russia was “using its whole range of state organs and powers to push …

9 years, 2 months ago

UK allows 18 jihadists to flee country while under monitoring from MI5 and police

The Independent

9 years, 2 months ago

Isis releases video showing execution of five 'British spies' and warning to 'imbecile' David Cameron

The Independent

9 years, 4 months ago

US issues global travel warning amid 'increased terrorist threats'

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9 years, 4 months ago

Britain to recruit nearly 2,000 spies to counter ISIL

Al Jazeera

The UK has announced it will expand its domestic and international spy agencies by recruiting 1,900 new intelligence agents in the wake of attacks in France and the Middle East. Speaking separately to BBC Radio 4, Cameron said the attacks in Paris on Friday, which left 129 people dead and hundreds more wounded, could have happened elsewhere in Europe, and …

9 years, 4 months ago

U.K. foiled 7 terror attacks in last 6 months: Cameron

The Hindu

British intelligence services have foiled seven terror attacks in the past six months in the United Kingdom while earlier response to such warning had originated from the al-Qaeda and the area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. Mr. Cameron’s remarks came as the United Kingdom government planned to recruit 1,900 new spies for the …

9 years, 5 months ago

British airstrikes on Isis in Syria expected within weeks

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Moves to authorise air strikes on Isis fighters in Syria are …

9 years, 5 months ago

UK Muslims and Extremism - Part 2: MI5 pays 'good' Muslims to snoop on 'bad' Muslims

Firstpost

A new row is over the revelation that MI5 is paying Muslim informants - having links with the Islamist “underworld” — to snoop on their co-religionists. This one around revelations that MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, is paying Muslim informants - having links with the Islamist “underworld” — to snoop on their co-religionists. “The initiative is being co-ordinated under the …

9 years, 6 months ago

UK monitoring 3,000 ISIS suspects: report

The Hindu

Britain’s security agencies and anti-terror police are monitoring around 3,000 UK-based extremists of dreaded Islamic state militant group, ready to carry out attacks in the county, according to media reports. The new analysis of terror activity suggests that the number of violent suspects being monitored has risen by more than 50 per cent since 2007, when the security agencies had …

9 years, 6 months ago

Jihadi John tops ‘kill list’ of British ISIS fighters: report

The Hindu

The United Kingdom government is believed to have drawn up a so-called “kill list” of British Islamic State fighters in Syria, topped by the dreaded Jihadi John. “If we have no other way of preventing an attack that’s likely to take place on our streets other than using a military strike to prevent it, then that’s what we’ll do,” U.K. …

9 years, 8 months ago

12 Yrs Since London Bombings: ISIS Terror a Clear & Present Danger

The Quint

It was exactly 12 years ago that London was attacked by four mindless youths – three from Leeds and one from Luton – not far from there. The four young men who committed this atrocity were indoctrinated and also possibly trained to destroy the West in the cause of jihad, and they executed their diabolical plan with reasonable efficiency. They …

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2 weeks ago

Anti-terror arrests reach highest level since 2019 as police chief warns of increase in 'state threats' against Britain

Daily Mail

Police made the highest number of terrorism-related arrests since 2019 last year, an 11 per cent increase year-on-year. Counter-terrorism police said the latest increase reflected rising perils to the UK from ‘state threats’ posed by countries such as Russia, China and Iran. Senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism policing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans, said: ‘The ripples of global uncertainty continue …

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55 years, 2 months ago

The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’

Wired

The kids are all grown up. Knifings, killings, firebombings, drive-by shootings, school shootings, and murder-for-hire plots in North America and Europe have all been connected to a splinter group called “No Lives Matter” that, per the group’s own manifesto, “idolizes death” and “seeks the purification of all mankind through endless attacks.” The group has released at least two “kill guides” …

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3 weeks ago

‘Completely unacceptable’: U.K. strongly condemns security breach during Jaishankar’s event in London

The Hindu

The UK on Thursday strongly condemned the security breach involving a pro-Khalistan extremist rushing towards External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's convoy, saying such attempts to "intimidate, threaten, or disrupt" public events are "completely unacceptable". It came after the Ministry of External Affairs called on the UK to "live up to their diplomatic obligations" after a man from a small group …

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