"We do face a consistent global struggle to defeat extremism and to guard against terrorism," McCallum said in an interview on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Britain last faced major attacks in 2017, when a bomber struck a concert in Manchester and knife-wielding men attacked two bridges in London. In the four years since, police and intelligence services had disrupted 31 late-stage plots to attack Britain, McCallum said. "Overnight you can have a psychological boost, a morale boost to extremists already here or in other countries, so we need to be vigilant," McCallum said. "There is no doubt that the recent events in Afghanistan will have heartened and emboldened some of those extremists."

Source: bd News24 September 10, 2021 10:18 UTC