Nuclear alert by ex-head of MI5

More than 100 suspects are awaiting trial in British courts for terrorist offences-a figure unprecedented in modern criminal history-Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former spy chief, has revealed.Britain is a centre of intense plotting and faces a terrorist threat of "unprecedented scale, ambition and ruthlessness".In a stark warning for the future, Dame Eliza added:"It remains a very real possibility that they may, sometime, somewhere attempt a chemical biological, radiological or even nuclear attack".The more than 40 separate terror court cases due to be heard include Operation Gamble, an alleged plot to kidnap and video the beheading of a British soldier and Operation Overt, an alleged plan to blow up 10 US airliners.Dame Eliza, the former director-general of MI5, said the radicalisation of teenage Muslims"from first exposure, to extremism, to active participation in terrorist plotting" was now worryingly rapid.It was vital that the Government rose to the challenge of trying to change the attitudes that "lead some of our young people to become terrorists".Dame Eliza, writing in the periodical Policing: A Journal of Policing and Practice, said that 1,700 terrorists in 200 networks, "scattered across the country" are thought to be plotting 30 attacks at any one time.She warned of the "pressing demand" for the police to create a secret network of Muslim spies capable of improving intelligence gathering.
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