Two and a half years on from the 7/7 attack on London, MI5 has identified a worrying new trend in Al-Qaeda recruits
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By Richard Elias
HUNDREDS of British non-Muslims have been recruited by al-Qaeda to wage war against the West, senior http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2287 warned last night.
As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2635 for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source.
Lord Carlile, the Government’s independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said many of the converts had been targeted by radical Muslims while serving prison terms.
Security experts say the growing secret army of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2941 poses a particularly serious threat as they are far less likely to be detected than members of the Asian community.
Since the 7/7 and 21/7 London bombings, police and intelligence services have had considerable success in identifying, disrupting and stopping extremist plots. As a result, groups such as al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen have been forced to change tack. Converting white non-Muslims has been one response.The trend is well established in the United States. American-born Adam Gadahn* is one of the FBI’s top 10 most-wanted terrorists after converting to Islam and rising through al-Qaeda’s ranks to become a prominent spokesman.
One British security source last night told Scotland on Sunday: “There could be anything up to 1,500 converts to the fundamentalist cause across Britain. They pose a real potential danger to our domestic security because, obviously, these people blend in and do not raise any flags.
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* Adam Gadahn is actually Adam Pearlman, a scion of a successful Southern California family. Interestingly, while other infamous converts like “Shoebomber” Richard Reid and John Walker Lindh are referred to by their Christian names (instead of Abdul Raheem and Sulayman al Faris, respectively), the Pearlman family is not subjected to similar shame.