The UK was hit with a number of terrorist attacks throughout 2017, with the cities of London and Manchester successfully targeted by Islamist militants. Numerous other terror plots were thwarted by domestic intelligence agencies and counter-terrorism police across the UK.
An anonymous official told British media that the current threat level of Islamist terrorism will remain for at least another two years, and could potentially rise.
“We expect the threat from Islamist terrorism to remain at its current heightened level for at least two years and it might increase further,” a senior Whitehall official warned on Wednesday.
The comments were made ahead of the British government's National Security Review, which will be published later today.
The official attributed the potential rise in the number of terror attacks on British soil to the territorial and structural demise of the *Daesh terror group. Other terrorist organizations, including a number of Al-Qaeda affiliates, also continue to pose a threat to the UK's national security.
Speaking about the UK's new “Fusion Doctrine” counter-terrorism initiative, Security Minister Ben Wallace warned that the threat facing the UK would not be going away in the near future.
“There's no quick fix to it and, in the 21st Century, threats to Britain's national security can be prosecuted through unconventional means as well as through conventional means. We don't think that any time…
