This is what happens when you turn a once proud nation into a refugee flophouse for subhumans who practice a violent 7th century religion, and who will kill you if you don’t like it. Tony Blair and David Cameron are directly to blame for this. Many of us here in the States wish all British activists Godspeed and good luck.
More than 300 dangerous jihadists have returned to the UK after fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) — far higher than previously thought, The Telegraph has learnt.
About 700 Islamists considered “dangerous” by the intelligence services have travelled to Syria and Iraq since the start of a conflict that has seen huge swathes of the region overrun by jihadists.
Of those, about 320 have now returned and are officially listed as “people of interest”.
A further 700 people –mainly British Muslims – who are not considered to be a threat to national security have also visited the region.
Previously the Government had estimated about 500 jihadists had fought with Isil and that 250 had come back.
The new estimate highlights the huge difficulty facing the security services and border agencies in trying to keep Britain safe.
The Telegraph has been told that about “two dozen” individuals who have come back have been involved in plots in the UK – so far thwarted.
In recent months, the flow to Syria has “significantly slackened” with Islamist idealists, previously attracted to the region with a view to overthrowing the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, deterred by the brutality and violence of the Isil leadership.
But more worrying for the UK authorities is the significant number of “hard core” extremists who have been attracted by the barbarity of the regime.
A far higher proportion of Britons who currently go to Syria, according to the Home Office analysis, are now intent on committing terrorist offences, attracted by the propaganda recruitment videos fronted by “Jihadi John”.
His unmasking as Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old computer sciences graduate from the University of Westminster, highlights the difficulty facing the authorities in trying to keep track of UK-based jihadists. Emwazi, who was born in Kuwait but grew up in London, had been under surveillance by MI5 and on a no-fly watch list for about four years.
Ali Adorus, who grew up in west London, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after being found guilty by the Ethiopian courts of attempting to establish Islamic rule through acts of terrorism
But in the spring of 2013, he escaped the UK undetected after slipping out of the country in the back of a lorry with the help of associates involved in a criminal network.
Another terror suspect, Ibrahim Magag, who had been placed under even tighter surveillance under a Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measure, is now thought by some in the security world to have escaped with him.
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