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Thread #154376   Message #3635506
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
22-Jun-14 - 04:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Jim, returning to the threat you deny.
BBC today.

UK police will have to deal with the threat of British fighters returning from Syria for "many years", a top Scotland Yard officer has told the BBC.

Met Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick said the conflict represented a "long-term" terrorist threat.



One of the men in the video has been identified as aspiring medical student Nasser Muthan, 20, from Cardiff.

Ms Dick - who is currently head of specialist operations including counter terrorism at the Met - warned Britain would face "the consequences" of the conflict in Syria for years.

More than 50 people have been arrested in the UK since 2013 for alleged Syria-related offences.

But Ms Dick would not be drawn on the extent to which UK police have already had to confront security threats from British jihadists fighting in the Middle East.