Will Britain Wake Up?

September 5, 2006, 10:31 am
  


 

 

By Andrew L. Jaffee

Obviously, Britain has a problem with Islamist radicals. Is it obvious to the British, even after the subway bombing of last year, rampant anti-Semitism, the foiled plot to blow up airlines, and most recently, the discovery of a terrorist training camp? From the Daily Mail:

Anti-terror police raided what is believed to be Britain’s first home-grown jihad training camp in the grounds of a former English ballet school.

They rounded up a network of alleged terrorist recruiters after spying on them at the secluded country mansion.

It is understood the group, which included several recent converts to Islam, were being schooled in fundamentalist ideals associated with Al Qaeda.

Last night, 14 men were being questioned, including at least one man described as a ‘high-profile fundamentalist Muslim cleric’.

Months of painstaking surveillance by MI5 culminated in police swooping on a group of 12 men as they sat down to a £4.99 ‘all-you-can-eat’ halal buffet in The Bridge To China Town restaurant in Borough, South London, late on Friday night, after they returned from a trip to the Islamic school.

It was followed by a series of raids at addresses across the capital and a massive police and forensic operation targeting the building and grounds of the Islamic school in East Sussex where they had been staying.

Police said the men were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.




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