"the conflicts in Syria and Iraq were clearly linked."
Of course they are, and despite allusions to a threat to Britain, they have no connection to Muslims here

Apart from the hundreds of Muslims from here who have joined Islamist Jihadi groups in those places, and who are committing terrible atrocities in the name of Islam and are pledged, "The "black flag of jihad" will fly over Downing Street, Junaid Hussain warned on June 4, spelling out the horrors to come. He's been fighting in Syria for over a year now.

Another, 19-year-old Muhammad Hassan, from Portsmouth, was a student at a prestigious school. He warned on Twitter that if the US doesn't cease threats over drone strikes on ISIS positions, 9/11-style attacks on America would follow.

The third, also from Portsmouth, promised a "killing spree" of British citizens if he were ever to return to Britain. "