{UAH} Top counter terror officer warns of threat posed by jihadi children returning to UK
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Frank Mujabi/Afuwa Kasule/ Mayimuna/ Edward Mo Irundrua/ Abbey Semuwambai/ Ocaya P'Ocure/ Ikanos,
Here is the latest UK statement on dealing with Islamic terrorism. This is an interview given yesterday by the man in charge of internal terrorism- whose is brief to monitor all known 850 Isis terrorists who have returned to the UK.
You can see how seriously the UK is taking the threat posed by muslim terrorists. According to him, up to 3,000 muslims are under 24 hour monitoring, and a further 20,000 are regularly monitored. A good number of these individuals live under Curfew and Control orders- they are removed far away from their home towns and placed in a different town where they must live within a 5 mile perimeter of their address- they are tagged and must not step out of this perimeter. They are denied access to the internet and to visitors and must report daily, sometimes two or three times a day, to the local police station. They are practically prisoners for an indeterminate period until the state decides they no longer pose any danger. They must also undergo anti-radicalisation programmes run by the Home Office in collaboration with the British Council of Muslims..
Children are not immune from this as the example of Germany and Nigeria show that the terrorists are increasingly using children and women to carry out suicide attacks.
Which makes you wonder what Justin Trudeau is doing in Canada. Canada will live to regret Trudeau's childish approach to what is a scourge on humanity, and the single most portent threat human civilisation faces today.
Bobby
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Top counter terror officer warns of threat posed by jihadi children returning to UK
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A leading counter-terrorist police officer today warned of the threat of children trained by Islamic State coming back to Britain to carry out attacks.
Commander Dean Haydon, the head of the Met's counter-terrorism command, said police and other services had a duty to safeguard children returning from Iraq and Syria.
"A child in a war zone would have seen some pretty horrendous things," he told the Standard.
But he warned: "Some terror groups are training children to commit atrocities. We need to not just understand the risk the mother poses but the risk that any child poses as well. We look at them on a case-by-case basis and they may be arrested."
Commander Haydon added: "We have no intelligence to suggest children are coming back from conflict zones to commit atrocities in the UK."
He also revealed that police are DNA-testing children who have been brought to the UK after being born in the so-called IS caliphate to establish their identity and whether they have the right to live here.
Fewer than five "stateless" children are believed to have returned with British mothers who had gone to Syria and married jihadist fighters.
Last month a 27-year-old woman, who was with a child under two, was arrested at Heathrow airport under terrorism laws.
Mr Haydon said: "If a mother turns up with a stateless child, born in Syria, we need to be satisfied that that child actually belongs to that mother because we have had instances of kids trying to be smuggled back into the UK but not actually belonging to that parent."
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned of the "massive danger" posed by IS women and children returning to Europe.
Hans-Georg Maassen said: "We have to consider that these children could be living timebombs. There is a danger that these children come back brainwashed with a mission to carry out attacks."
Children carried out three of five Islamist attacks in Germany in 2016. A 12-year-old boy was also detained after trying to bomb a Christmas market.
British children known to have gone to Syria include Isa Dare who, aged four, was filmed apparently pressing a detonator to kill prisoners.
JoJo Dixon, 12, son of British jihadi Sally Jones, from Kent, is believed to have been forced to execute prisoners in Syria. He is thought to have died in a US drone strike which killed his mother last year.
Mr Haydon said police had identified all 850 or so Britons who travelled to Syria in the past three years.
About half have returned and 15 per cent were killed in the fighting. He said police had "a plan in place for every single person" and that anyone suspected of terrorism faced arrest, prosecution or control measures. Mr Haydon said some had travelled for humanitarian reasons.
Fewer than 10 people returned from the war zone last year, mostly women and children.
He said: "You have got rape, murder, torture happening on an industrial scale. That is not conducive to family life and bringing children up — as a result those individuals have sought to return." He said police worked hard to prevent people travelling and few had attempted the trip in 2017.
Mr Haydon described last year as unprecedented because of the "pace and tempo" of terror attacks on home soil.
Counter-terrorism police and the security services stopped 10 "significant" plots in the UK. There were also a record number of terror-related arrests last year: 466, a 35 per cent increase on the previous 12 months.
Officials are monitoring 3,000 "subjects of interest" and 20,000 individuals are still "potentially a concern.
Mr Haydon said there had been no let-up in the pace of investigations, with police and security agencies running 600 at any one time.
"I cannot give a timeline when I think the threat will come down," he added. "It currently stands at severe, which means an attack is highly likely."
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