Al Qaeda-trained Britons return from Pakistan
More than 20 Britons who have trained in al Qaeda terror camps inside Pakistan have returned to Britain, according to Pakistani intelligence.
The Britons, whose families are from Pakistan, were monitored by Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency, Sky News reported. But the ISI failed to notify British intelligence until after the men entered the country, the news agency reported. Four of the Britons are thought to have actively fought inside Afghanistan. The men claimed to have entered Pakistan to visit relatives, study, vacation, or work for a charity. "The suspects are aged between 17 and 23 and have apparently created 'sufficient suspicion' with their activities for the ISI to believe they pose a 'potential danger' to Britain."
British intelligence officers are nearly overwhelmed with tracking terror suspects operating inside Britain, many of whom are Pakistanis. In November 2008, an intelligence report stated there are "extremist concentrations" in "London, [and] Birmingham, with significant extremist networks in the South East, notably Luton."
Thousands of suspected British terrorists are supporting terror attacks inside Britain and abroad. "The majority of extremists are British nationals of south Asian, mainly Pakistani origin but there are also extremists from north and east Africa, Iraq and the Middle East," the report stated.
Many of the major post-Sept. 11 plots and attacks against the West have been traced back to Pakistan's tribal areas. Western Arabs and South Asians have traveled to Pakistan's tribal areas for approval, guidance, training, financing, and support to conduct their attacks. US intelligence officials are concerned that al Qaeda's next big attack, like past attacks and foiled plots, will originate in Pakistan's tribal areas. "We believe the next major attack will be carried out by someone carrying a Western passport," a US intelligence official told The Long War Journal in September 2008. The official was clearly worried about the deteriorating security situation in northwestern Pakistan.
The US has conducted multiple strikes in northwestern Pakistan in an effort to incapacitate al Qaeda's external network. The US targeted al Qaeda and Taliban camps 36 times in 2008, and have hit nine camps and compounds this year. Only 10 strikes were carried out in Pakistan during 2006 and 2007 combined. Many of the strikes in 2008 and 2009 can be directly traced back to al Qaeda's external operations network.
Al Qaeda is known to run several camps for Westernized members. In October 2007, the Asia Times reported that Abu Haris al Jazairi, which is a name used by slain external operations chief Abu Sulayman al Jazairi, ran a large facility in Mir Ali in North Waziristan.
"According to the intelligence reports, this al-Qaeda camp is planning attacks in Europe, notably the United Kingdom, Germany and France," the Asia Times reported. Jazairi ran the camp along with a French citizen known as Najib al Fala, and four Tunisians known as Omar Jalali, Bilal Abu Daghlol, Hussain al Babi, and Ahmed Taufiq.
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Originally Posted by nce_wht_guy
about England? worst part of the country.
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