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Muslim prisoners recruited in jail – new threat to UK
Published: 06 September, 2010, 06:50
Edited: 07 September, 2010, 17:37
TAGS: Conflict, UK, Hate crimes, Protest, Terrorism
A leading British think tank claims the UK is vulnerable to terrorism as more Muslim prisoners are recruited by militants.
The Royal United Services Institute says hundreds of potentially dangerous radicals will be released in the next few years, posing a big threat to national security, and authorities will have no way of identifying them.
Five years on from the 7/7 London bombings, the threat of terrorism in the UK is very much alive.
Back in 2005, four British-born Muslims, motivated by the UK’s involvement in the Iraq war, blew themselves up in coordinated attacks, killing 52 people.
Now a security think tank study reveals the threat of a new generation of homegrown terrorists.
“There are about 8,000 Muslims in jail in Great Britain, out of a population of 93,000, and the evidence we’ve seen, which is based on conversations with Muslim inmates, is that about 1 in 10 have been targeted in the last 3 or 4 years for radicalization,” said Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary from the National Association of Probation Officers.
If those attempts at radicalization are successful, 800 potential attackers could be released within the next 10 years – and they won’t have previous terror-related convictions.
That’s even more dangerous when you take into account the shifting nature of the terrorist threat.
Instead of large scale coordinated attacks, experts fear more terrorist attacks by so called “lone wolves” – committed to violent jihad, poorly trained and unaffiliated with any terrorist organization – and so impossible to detect.
“Now we see the evolution of the threat, ideologically driven,” said Valentina Soria, a report co-author from the Royal United Service Institute. “Panic and psychosis.”
It’s a trend that, according to the institute, is already apparent in the US.
Pakistani American Faisal Shahzad’s recent attempt to bomb Times Square showed the emergence of untrained but highly radicalized attackers.
The Ministry of Justice is anxious to point out that holding radical views doesn’t necessarily lead to criminal behavior, and says it’s closely monitoring prisoners of concern.
“All our high security prisons operate enhanced monitoring and intelligence-gathering on those convicted or suspected of involvement in terrorism or extremism, and staff are trained to recognize and deal with behaviors which are of concern,” state the ministry’s report.
But the anti-extremist group Minhaj-ul-Quran says more must be done in terms of education within the community.
“That has to be dealt with through long term education and clarification of the misconceptions these people have,” said Shahid Mursaleen, a spokesperson for Minhaj-ul-Quran. “The government needs to employ chaplains who are moderate, in order to tackle these issues inside the prisons before they come out. It will be already too late by the time they come out.”
It is impossible to tell who has been radicalized in jail. But what is known is that by April of next year, 100 convicted terrorists will have been released from high-security prisons into lower-security facilities.
With a move toward a more “scattergun” approach to terrorism, the reasoning is that eventually, one of these lone wolves will manage to take out a high-profile target. And in an open society, experts say there’s only so much government can do to protect the public.
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Pure propaganda everybody knows especially in the intelligence agencies that British intelligence recruits and runs Muslim terrorist organisations and networks to fight there proxy wars mainly in Bosnia and Chechnya including those that have conspired to commit terrorist attacks against the US. Abu Qatada the Jordanian cleric who is connected to both the millennium bomb plot and 9/11 and helps recruit and make fund raising videos for Chechen militants since 97 was on the payroll of MI6, the London bomber mastermind fought for British intelligence in Bosnia and Kosovo from where he used contact there to pull of the 7/7 attack and other senior terror individuals like Babar Ahmad who conspired with a US Muslim sailor official to who set Ahmad information about US Navy ships stationed in the Mid East and tried to set up a Chechen training camp in the US with Finsbury park mosque preacher Abu Hamza who Britain pressuring the European Court of Human Rights to rule against their extradition to the US.
Wow - such fear, such ignorance. It appears that Muslims really have replaced the Jews as the scapgoats for all of the worlds ills. On another point the new UK coalition government is trying to correct the mess that the last Blair / Brown government created both domestically and internationally. As far as armed conflict is concerned the UK is out of Iraq (after a little push from Iranian aided groups and a little slap from Iran directly re the sailor capture incident), and they are desparatly looking for a way out of Afghanistan. They cannot just leave otherwise the lives of the armed forces personnel lost will be seen to have been wasted - something that the government would not survive. This has not been helped by the North Korean / old Soviet style propoganda and glorification the Blair / Brown government introduced re the armed forces. Every returning soldier is not a 'veteran' anymore, they are now 'Heros' of the state. This has even extended to schools (remember the UK is one of the few countries that still trains and deploys child soldiers) where children are told they will be Heros / get to do great things / shape history / make a life for themselves and thier families, etc. A decade of this level of propoganda can not be turned on its head overnight. It was nice to see Tony Blair get pelted with eggs at his recent book signing event - shows that not everyone has been taken in by the lies.
Annon, I also hear from other British people that they have high hopes for the coalition. I wish these people well, however at times these hopes seem like last ditch desperation. Almost like a cry for help. But I have my doubts whether these hopes can ever be realised. See what many in the UK do not realise, is that there is a British institution, that revolves historically around a couple of hundred familes, some historic, some in movers who complement an international finacial elite. These are the ones that really pull the strings in Britain. The rest is a political, judicial, executive and legislative farce. The whole electoral system is rigged so that the colonial British institution cannot be rocked in any way. See just a few really decide what is the foreign policy of the UK, and that policy is basically built on a colonial past, where colonalism is seen as good, and therefore any return to it, on crusades of values are good things, especially when attached to colonial riches of tea, sugar, oil..... After all this is what Britain is based on, the continual theft from and control of other peoples. It is a value system where the domestic dog or cat's welfare is elevated against any foreign 'savage'. Put a cat in a wheely bin and it's outrageous. Kill a million in Iraq and its necessary collateral damage. Do you honestly think the coalition can change these values, when one of them is a conservative, a representative large of support for colonialism. I think not, indeed I think the conservatives are the colonial brake, to maintain the authoritarian colonial staus quo. I think the only reason for withdrawal from the current colonial crusades, is purely financial. The west is facing bankruptcy, it faced a choice continue and become bankrupt, or withdraw and have a chance to avoid bankruptcy. Even your armed servces have noticed how they have been short changed. They now can see that their involvement was just a pennies and shillings excercise.