Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits
AL-QAEDA is secretly recruiting affluent, middle-class Muslims in British universities and colleges to carry out terrorist attacks in this country, leaked Whitehall documents reveal.
A network of “extremist recruiters” is circulating on campuses targeting people with “technical and professional qualifications”, particularly engineering and IT degrees.
Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan police chief, revealed separately last night that up to 3,000 British-born or British-based people had passed through Osama Bin Laden’s training camps.
The Whitehall dossier, ordered by Tony Blair following last year’s train bombings in Madrid, says: “Extremists are known to target schools and colleges where young people may be very inquisitive but less challenging and more susceptible to extremist reasoning/ arguments.”
The confidential assessment, covering more than 100 pages of letters, papers and other documents, forms the basis of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, codenamed Operation Contest.
It paints a chilling picture of the scale of the task in tackling terrorism. Drawing on information from MI5, it concludes:
“Intelligence indicates that the number of British Muslims actively engaged in terrorist activity, whether at home or abroad or supporting such activity, is extremely small and estimated at less than 1%.”
This equates to fewer than 16,000 potential terrorists and supporters out of a Muslim population of almost 1.6m.”
The dossier also estimates that 10,000 have attended extremist conferences. The security services believe that the number who are prepared to commit terrorist attacks may run into hundreds.
Most of the Al-Qaeda recruits tend to be loners “attracted to university clubs based on ethnicity or religion” because of “disillusionment with their current existence”. British-based terrorists are made up of different ethnic groups, according to the documents.
Fra TimesOnline
Til PET: Hvad er de danske tal? 1% af det officielle tal på 210.000 muslimer i Danmark er 2.100 potentielle terrorister og supportere her i landet. Hvad foregår der på de danske læreanstalter? Hvor mange danskere har været i Al-Qaedas træningslejre? Hvad foretog de 1000-vis af ‘danskere’ sig i deres ‘ferie’ i f.ex. Sydlibanon sig? Og hvor mange højreradikale regner I med, der er i DK?
Hvis disse fanatikere foretager anslag mod dansk område, vil det så ikke være forståeligt, hvis det danske folk tager sagen i egen hånd.
Myndighedernes effektive indsats kan vi næppe regne med.
Under folkestrejken i 1944 tog det danske folk sagen i egen hånd i masser af tilfælde.
Det omfattede Shalburg folk, der belev hængt i deres egne seler i den nærmeste lygtepæl, ligesom en anden dansk tyskerhåndlanger blev kastreret med en brødkniv i Istedgade.
Det var folkets raseri, der eksploderede.
Det ville være helt på sin plads, at det skete igen i tilfælde af terroranslag mod danskere.
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