Date published: 2005/03/06
The BBC says:
Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says more than 200 Al-Qaeda "terrorists" are operating in UK and the threat of attacks is real.
He has backed proposed anti-terror laws, saying critics were naive about the "brutal" threat posed by fanatics.
Sir John, writing in the News of the World, said militants trained by Osama bin Laden "fester" across the country.
More hype from one of the usual suspects. Stevens doesn't really know how many Al-Qaeda operatives are in the UK, he's just making the figure up because it makes for a good story. Given the track record of both the intelligence services and the police, his statement carries little credibility. And the proposed anti-terror laws would do nothing to deal with this situation, since most of the guilty are not known (and most of those locked up will be innocent).
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