Terrorist plots on the scale of those carried out in Paris and Brussels have been foiled in Britain in the past four years, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has revealed. Launching an appeal for public help in combating terrorism, assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said the thwarted attacks were among 13 plots that had been prevented since the murder of Lee Rigby in 2013. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Rowley said many of the disrupted attacks involved only one or two individuals. As part of the Action Counters Terrorism campaign, a podcast has been produced revealing previously untold stories of how UK terrorist attacks were prevented, featuring accounts from detectives, bomb disposal and surveillance officers. Rowley, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for counter-terrorism, urged the public to be wary of far-right terrorist plots as well as those from Islamic extremists.

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2017 10:20 UTC