United Kingdom – The U.K. government has launched an investigation into the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood to determine whether the organization is using London as a base for planning extremist attacks after the Egyptian military has cracked down on the Islamist movement, and Egyptian courts have outlawed it, it was reported on the 2 Apr 14. While the British government has cracked down on what it regards as terrorist and extremist organizations, the Muslim Brotherhood had not been regarded as such, especially after it had won the parliamentary elections in Egypt in Dec 11 and the presidential elections in Jun 12, which made Muhammad Morsi the president of Egypt.
Thousands of foreign fighters, including hundreds of Britons, are now in Syria, fighting with rebel forces against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Security experts say that the danger faced by Britain and other countries from jihadist fighters returning from Syria is "unprecedented," and that a terror attack on British soil by one or more British Muslims returning from Syria is "inevitable.” “All the reports I have seen suggest that it is becoming increasingly acute," said Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's counterterrorism coordinator. "National budgets devoted to counter-terrorism are declining across the EU. Yet the threat that we face is becoming more diverse, more diffuse, and more unpredictable." (This report was published in the Homeland Security Newsletter dated 07 Apr 14)
Thousands of foreign fighters, including hundreds of Britons, are now in Syria, fighting with rebel forces against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Security experts say that the danger faced by Britain and other countries from jihadist fighters returning from Syria is "unprecedented," and that a terror attack on British soil by one or more British Muslims returning from Syria is "inevitable.” “All the reports I have seen suggest that it is becoming increasingly acute," said Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's counterterrorism coordinator. "National budgets devoted to counter-terrorism are declining across the EU. Yet the threat that we face is becoming more diverse, more diffuse, and more unpredictable." (This report was published in the Homeland Security Newsletter dated 07 Apr 14)
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