Basu’s warning here that jihadis who have been prevented from going to Syria may mount jihad attacks at home is blazingly obvious; I’ve been pointing it out for years. The real news here is buried far down in the Independent’s report: “Counterterror police ‘priority’ investigations have increased by almost a third in 18 months and Mr Basu said the rising danger had stabilised ‘to become the new UK normal.'” In other words, get used to jihad terror, it isn’t going away.
Basu also said of jihad terrorists that “many come from a generation who feel disenfranchised – often those from isolated minority communities in the UK.” This is the standard view of the counter-terror establishment, that jihad comes from poverty and lack of opportunity, so that if we shower Muslim communities with cash, all will be well and the jihad will fade away. In reality, jihadis will see that largesse as payment of the jizya, which is their due from the Infidels, and continue to plot their jihad activity.
The top counter-terror cop in the UK should know that, but of course, reality is forbidden in the British government.
“Isis supporters ‘frustrated’ at being stopped from travelling to Syria may attack UK instead, terror police chief warns,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, October 10, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
“Frustrated” Isis supporters who are prevented from travelling to the group’s territories abroad may launch terror attacks in Britain instead, the head of national counterterror policing has warned.
Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu said that before last year’s attacks security services believed that fighters returning from abroad presented the biggest threat.
“It wasn’t – the threat was already here – and there are still plenty of aspirant or frustrated travellers who now have nowhere to go,” he told the National Security Summit in London.
“Many come from a generation who feel disenfranchised – often those from isolated minority communities in the UK.”…
Of an estimated 900 people of ”national security concern“ who travelled from the UK to Syria, around 20 per cent have been killed and 40 per cent have returned.
The majority of those who have come back did so in the earlier stages of the conflict, and a ”significant proportion“ are assessed as no longer being of national security concern.
Those who are believed to be a threat but who cannot be prosecuted because of insufficient evidence are monitored or subjected to restrictions including Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures.
Mr Basu warned that the acceleration in Islamist radicalisation is also feeding far-right rhetoric fuelling the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action, the Finsbury Park terror attack.
“The very nature of the threat we face means it is now more than ever before, a question of ‘when not if’,” he added. “The increase in tempo has been dramatic.”
Counterterror police “priority” investigations have increased by almost a third in 18 months and Mr Basu said the rising danger had stabilised “to become the new UK normal”.
He identified driving factors including segregated communities, unregulated education, online propaganda and encryption.
Mr Wallace said extremists of all kinds were “spreading their twisted versions of the truth to recruit the next generation of ‘unlit candles’ ready to wage war”.
He championed the government’s Prevent counter-extremism programme as a way to divert people, saying 231 people were deemed to no longer pose a threat after deradicalisation work last year….