Al-Qaeda militants in Syria are preparing attacks on Western targets. The attacks have cause mass casualties – warned the British counter-intelligence MI5 chief Andrew Parker. Terrorists want to probably hit the shuttle.
The day after the terrorist attack on French satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, which killed 12 people, the British counterintelligence chief warned that very likely is a coup in the UK.
A group of terrorists from Al Qaeda in Syria plans to indiscriminate attacks against the West – Parker said at the headquarters of MI5 in London. Reuters notes that the head of counterintelligence rarely speaks. The last time there was public in October of 2013. Yesterday’s speech was planned before the attack in Paris.
“Starts in people on a large scale”
The head of MI5 pointed out that Al-Qaeda militants in Syria want ” cause loss of life on a large scale, often attacking the transport systems or so. key objectives “in the West. It seems – as indicated by Reuters – that after the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011. Threat to the West on the part of the terrorist network has decreased in recent years.
But – as he writes Reuters – intelligence services in the United States and Europe are concerned that in war-torn Syria came to Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan. Some intelligence analysts argue that this may be part of a conspiracy aimed at preparing a major attack on the West.
A serious warning to paragraph one of the most influential heads of interviews in the West reflects – as Reuters notes – a growing concern among Western leaders and their political allies in the Arab threat from various militant groups in Syria and Iraq.
“very serious threat”
The head of MI5 said that traveled to Syria 600 British extremists. Many of them joined the armed jihadi organization the Islamic State, which took control of significant areas in Syria and Iraq and established the caliphate there.
We’re dealing with a very serious threat level, which is difficult to combat – said Parker, who strongly argued for greater powers for the oversight services to communicate on the Internet terrorists. He stressed that the security forces need access to such communication.
Social networks such as Twitter and Facebook are so important for fighters that Internet companies should give security agencies greater access to their networks – said last year the head of the British electronic intelligence agency GCHQ Robert Hannigan.
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West targeted Al-Qaeda. Planning attacks – rmf24.pl
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