- Home
- ISLAMIC RESISTANCE
- SECRETARY-GENERAL
-
Full Speeches
- Speeches-2000
- Speeches-2006
- Speeches-2007
- Speeches-2008
- Speeches-2009
- Speeches-2010
- Speeches-2011
- Speeches-2012
- Speeches-2013
- Speeches-2014
- Speeches-2015
- Speeches-2016
- Speeches-2017
- Speeches-2018
- Speeches-2019
- Speeches-2020
- Speeches-2021
- Speeches-2022
- Speeches-2023
- Speeches-2024
- Speeches-2025
- Speeches-2026
- Speech-Reports
- SG
-
Full Speeches
- Voices
- Ten Day Dawn
- The Biggest Crime
- Martyr Leaders
UK Home Secretary: Britain is Facing Greatest ’Terror Threat’ of its History
Local Editor
The terror threat to the UK is greater now than at any time in the country's history, the British Home Secretary Theresa May said, as she warned that the danger posed by so-called "Daesh" ["ISIL"] is larger than that of any other terror organization which has confronted Britain.
UK Home Secretary: Britain is Facing Greatest Terror Threat of its History
In an interview with The Telegraph on Monday, May said that
the menace posed by the extremist faction means the threat to Britain is
now "greater than it has been at any time before or after 9/11".
Her comments came as she prepared to unveil the Government's Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, which will contain a series of measures designed to prevent British-born extremists who have travelled to Iraq and Syria returning to the UK and carrying out attacks.
These will include barring extremists from returning for at least two years, stripping teenage extremists of their passports and preventing insurers reimbursing ransoms made to terrorists.
"Daesh" has raised £28million in the past 12 months, according to the Home Office.
There are concerns that some UK-based insurance firms are inadvertently providing cover for the payment of ransoms, the Telegraph said.
"There's been a lot of focus on Syria and Iraq and "ISIL" and people have seen the brutality of "ISIL" and people will have been shocked that there are British citizens actively going out to join this group when they've seen the brutality of what they do," May said.
May's intervention came as Mark Rowley, Britain's counterterror chief, warned that terrorists could be plotting attacks on shopping centres, cinemas and sports stadiums across the country.
Additionally, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said police and security services have foiled "four or five" plots this year alone.
Many senior Tories have expressed concerns that internet companies and social media sites are not doing enough to ensure that extremist propaganda, such as videos of "ISIL" decapitating hostages, is not being made available.
May said: "The tools that they offer to people, the social media, [are] incredibly powerful in terms of getting messages very quickly around the world. I hope they would see, in their own responsibilities, why we are talking to them about their own terms and conditions and the sort of things that they allow across their networks that can have an impact on people." She disclosed that UK counterterror officers have removed more than 40,000 items from the internet that promote terrorism.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
Comments
- Related News
