4,000 extremists from UK trained in Afghan camps
Tuesday July 17, 2007 (1726 PST)
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LONDON: Up to 4,000 Islamic extremists from the UK have attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan before returning to the country, a media report said quoting security chiefs.
The alarming figure raises fresh questions about UK border controls and the capacity of the intelligence and security services to keep the country safe, The Sunday Telegraph said.
Quoting a senior security source, the report said "There are 3,000 to 4,000 people who went from the UK to Afghanistan and came back. The important question is, where are they now?"
The figure is more than double the estimate of 1,600 that Mi5, the British intelligence service, gave last autumn for the number of individuals actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks in Britain.
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Tuesday July 17, 2007 (1726 PST)
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LONDON: Up to 4,000 Islamic extremists from the UK have attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan before returning to the country, a media report said quoting security chiefs.
The alarming figure raises fresh questions about UK border controls and the capacity of the intelligence and security services to keep the country safe, The Sunday Telegraph said.
Quoting a senior security source, the report said "There are 3,000 to 4,000 people who went from the UK to Afghanistan and came back. The important question is, where are they now?"
The figure is more than double the estimate of 1,600 that Mi5, the British intelligence service, gave last autumn for the number of individuals actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks in Britain.
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