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08-27-2010, 08:33 AM
Muslim inmates 'turning to terror' as think tank says convicted terrorists are radicalising fellow inmates
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Last updated at 8:30 AM on 27th August 2010
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Britain faces a new wave of terror attacks launched by Muslims radicalised in prison, a respected think tank warns today.
The Royal United Services Institute says convicted terrorists inside high security prisons may have turned one in ten Muslim inmates to their cause.
As a result, the threat from jihadists born in this country is greater here than anywhere else in the Western world, including the U.S., the report states.
Its authors warn that violent extremists have changed their tactics in the five years since the 7/7 bombings.
Rather than working in groups, jihadists are acting alone and taking aim at 'soft' targets with less security.
Future terror attacks are likely to involve lone bombers with little training and makeshift devices targeting crowded sporting events.
As a result they will be much more difficult for the police and security services to stop, it is claimed.
The report says: 'The conditions are all there for a series of attacks that could begin at any time.
'More than any Western country, the UK has the greatest to fear from home-grown terrorism.'
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More than 230 people were jailed in the UK over terror plots in the first decade of this century. But of those, just 105 remain in prison.
Among them are Abu Qatada – Osama bin Laden's 'right hand man in Europe' – as well as terror preacher Abu Hamza, and the men behind the failed July 21, 2005, bomb attacks.
The authors say some are turning ordinary Muslim prisoners jailed for non-terror offences into radicals at 'a rapid rate'.
'One in ten of the 8,000 Muslim prisoners in high security institutions in England' may have been turned into a potential terrorist, they claim.
The report states: 'The possibility of attacks now hangs over all major sporting events', including the 2012 Olympics, and future World Cups.
The Ministry of Justice flatly rejected the claims.A spokesman said: 'There are only 6,000 prisoners in the High Security Estate, most of whom are not Muslim.
'The figure of "one in ten of the 8,000 Muslims" in the High Security Estate is therefore unrecognisable.'
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By Jack Doyle (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Jack+Doyle)
Last updated at 8:30 AM on 27th August 2010
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Britain faces a new wave of terror attacks launched by Muslims radicalised in prison, a respected think tank warns today.
The Royal United Services Institute says convicted terrorists inside high security prisons may have turned one in ten Muslim inmates to their cause.
As a result, the threat from jihadists born in this country is greater here than anywhere else in the Western world, including the U.S., the report states.
Its authors warn that violent extremists have changed their tactics in the five years since the 7/7 bombings.
Rather than working in groups, jihadists are acting alone and taking aim at 'soft' targets with less security.
Future terror attacks are likely to involve lone bombers with little training and makeshift devices targeting crowded sporting events.
As a result they will be much more difficult for the police and security services to stop, it is claimed.
The report says: 'The conditions are all there for a series of attacks that could begin at any time.
'More than any Western country, the UK has the greatest to fear from home-grown terrorism.'
More...
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More than 230 people were jailed in the UK over terror plots in the first decade of this century. But of those, just 105 remain in prison.
Among them are Abu Qatada – Osama bin Laden's 'right hand man in Europe' – as well as terror preacher Abu Hamza, and the men behind the failed July 21, 2005, bomb attacks.
The authors say some are turning ordinary Muslim prisoners jailed for non-terror offences into radicals at 'a rapid rate'.
'One in ten of the 8,000 Muslim prisoners in high security institutions in England' may have been turned into a potential terrorist, they claim.
The report states: 'The possibility of attacks now hangs over all major sporting events', including the 2012 Olympics, and future World Cups.
The Ministry of Justice flatly rejected the claims.A spokesman said: 'There are only 6,000 prisoners in the High Security Estate, most of whom are not Muslim.
'The figure of "one in ten of the 8,000 Muslims" in the High Security Estate is therefore unrecognisable.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306570/Muslim-inmates-turning-terror-think-tank-says-terrorists-radicalising-fellow-inmates.html#ixzz0xoDY4sHg