The director general of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 has warned while Al-Qaeda’s power to attack the West has been all but erased in the years since 9/11, the overall threat picture is now worse than in 2001 between new and innovative terror networks, lone wolf attackers, and state-sponsored terrorism.
\n\nBritish spy boss Sir Kenneth McCallum has made the latest in a series of interventions by leading political, military, and security figures priming the pump for societal change, warning an ever-greater security threat means the public now need to pull together for national “preparation, resilience… courage”.
\n\nWhile “another 9/11” is “progressively less likely” as time passes because Western security services have become well adapted to fighting that particular form of terrorism, in the whole the security picture is now worse than in 2001, the spy boss said. The answer to this is more state power, more integration between the government and society so Whitehall can easily take control in a crisis, and more laws to keep “out-innovating” the enemy, he said.
\n\nHitherto such warnings have been presented by others as a response to Russia becoming an combatant against the West, again, and often in the context of the public needing…
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