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Still behind the terror curve

We have had the closest of close shaves - and who knows whether by the time you read this the bombers will have struck lucky.

The appalling carnage intended by the weekend’s attacks in London and Glasgow was averted only by chance and the alertness of the public and emergency services.

And the danger is far from over. As the Government’s new security adviser Lord Stevens observed, this is a major escalation of the Islamist war being waged against us.

We don’t yet know who was responsible. But what is immensely disturbing is that, once again, our intelligence service has been taken unawares and shown wanting.

If the bombers turn out to be ‘clean skins’ unknown to MI5, the extent of home-grown Islamist terrorism is far worse than it thought and it will have to go back to the drawing board - again.

But even worse, the bombers might have already surfaced on its radar and yet been left free to organise another atrocity.

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Britain is now Al Qaeda’s principal target as well as its principal recruiting ground. This is because Al Qaeda has correctly identified Britain as the weakest link in the Western alliance.

Our Muslim community is particularly vulnerable to Islamist extremism because of the collapse of Britain’s belief in itself and the corresponding rise of multiculturalism and minority rights; the world-class defeatism and appeasement-minded arrogance of its establishment; and the eagerness with which its intellectual elite regurgitates Islamist propaganda in order to bash the West.

Our new Prime Minister has made an impressive start in handling this crisis. His appointments of a former head of defence intelligence as a designated Security Minister and a former Metropolitan Police commissioner as a security adviser were shrewd political moves.

Now we have to see whether the lethally incompetent counter-terrorism strategy will change.



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