UK faces his most dangerous stretch in the fight against terrorism since two failed attacks in 2007, Britain's most senior police officer said ensure increased reflecting the terrorist attack in Europe.
The point made by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson - in a London speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a security and defence policy think tank - comes at a time when officials across the continent are concerned about the prospect of an attack, including a possible "commando"-style attack like the one presented in Mumbai in 2008.
A British security official said Wednesday's real concern is that such an attack could take, in the United Kingdom and "something we care." American and European intelligence increased talk have fetched - eavesdropping and agent-, related is attacks in Europe.
The point was again by events in Europe this week unterstrichen.Am Wednesday calculated the Belgian police nine people with terrorist groups belong. The nine were arrested Tuesday and according to police, were a part of Moroccan terror of Antwerp-based network whose alleged Ziele were an attack on Belgian soil and steering cash and recruits to Islamic rebels in Chechnya.
Also warned on Wednesday, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office travellers after intelligence increased threat in Denmark the increased risk of attack are warned.
Officials in Germany are currently thought race to track of a group, to a small arms attack on one or more urban centres it sometime in the next three months, planning be familiar accordingly an official with the matter.Two suspected suicide bomber believed that, to a prominent location strike planning are also the German authorities said may in Berlin, a person familiar with the investigation are tracking.
In his speech said Sir Paul can "no complacency" in the country's defenses against terror.
He said "in my judgment, and this is a view, which split senior colleagues in the security, this is no doubt dangerous a time as we for Great Britain, and UK interests abroad,... seen since the attacks in 2007, have".
In June 2007, police discovered an unexploded bomb at a nightclub in London and tried a truck full of gas canister two terrorists off by ramming to put it in Glasgow Airport.
Sir Paul's warning comes as part of a steady drum roll with precautions of senior British security during the last September warned Zahlen.Im Jonathan Evans, the head of the UK's domestic spy agency MI5, that United Kingdom incubated potent threats of terrorism in the Middle East and Northern Ireland North Africa faces.
Recently, United Kingdom long as a prime target for terrorist attack has experienced in its citizens by European countries Germany and France and by a recent uptick in the related warning connected wurde.teilweise came arrests has this, after US authorities last month information about terrorist sleeper cells in Europe passed that you said close to is enabled.
The threats are on Europe's largest countries limited. Denmark's Center for terror analysis said that "new indications", the terrorist groups abroad, seeking it terrorists to Denmark attack to senden.Das Nordic country was already subject to threats and attacks, after a Danish newspaper cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad printed.
Write toAlistair MacDonald at alistair.macdonald@wsj.com
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