Why does Britain have so many suspected jihadis? Could it be that their policies of appeasement of Islamic supremacist groups and harassment of foes of jihad terror have failed miserably to blunt the appeal of jihad among Muslims in Britain?
“‘We CANNOT watch them all’: Scotland Yark [sic] anti-terror chief Neil Basu says officers don’t have resources to watch every 3,000 extremist suspects,” by Ed Riley, Mailonline, February 5, 2020:
Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer today said it is not possible to watch every extremist on UK streets because there are too many – as he backed plans to keep terrorists locked up for longer.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said the sheer scale of the challenge meant that officers needed the public’s help to stop future terror attacks.
He told the Evening Standard that he hoped bystanders would raise the alarm about suspicious conduct and remain vigilant at all times – adding that the threat of terrorism in the UK is ‘not diminishing’ following a third attack in three months.
Mr Basu also hailed the ‘courage’ of the officers involved in stopping attacker and convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman – and said he backed the governments plans to keep extremists locked up for longer.
In an article for the Evening Standard he said: ‘With 3,000 or so subjects of interest currently on our radar and many convicted terrorists soon due to be released from prison, we simply cannot watch all of them all the time.’
He said he was ‘supportive’ of government plans to introduce emergency legislation to ensure existing terrorist prisoners are not freed automatically after serving up to a third of their sentence.
Mr Basu said: ‘Part of the solution must be ensuring those who pose the greatest threat to our society are removed from it, and so my colleagues and I are supportive of the Government’s plans to strengthen our ability to keep the most dangerous terrorists locked up for longer….