Cameron: Rebels attack in Iraq can encourage terrorism in UK

Minimize the progress of the jihadists in Iraq as it will encourage further terrorist attacks, has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron, after chairing a meeting of the Homeland Security Committee devoted to the crisis in Iraq. Cameron, facing a reluctant public to any military intervention from the second Gulf War, ruled out involvement of the British Army in the offensive against the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (EIIL), but stressed that the action must be fought also on the home front through intensifying the fight against Islamic extremism.

“I disagree with those who believe that it has nothing to do with us and if they want to impose a radical Islamic regime will not affect us,” said the Prime Minister in his address. He also announced an increase in humanitarian aid to displaced persons worth a total of five million pounds. The purpose of his message was to emphasize that the progress of jihadism in the Middle East and parts of Africa not only seeks to conquer territories but also ” planning attacks against us here in the UK.”

The UK authorities are facing what they consider an internal security problem at the growing number of its own citizens who have joined the fight against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, neighboring Iraq in the past three years. Official figures confirm the displacement of 400 men from the United Kingdom, although it is presumed that many more – into the area of conflict, of which 10% have been arrested on their return. Cameron’s government submitted to Parliament for approval in the coming months a new law that will make it an offense to participate in terrorist acts abroad, as the Prime Minister pointed out to MPs at Westminster. British intelligence and security forces, he added, “will focus sharply” in nationals who return from the battlefield, Syria, Afghanistan or Pakistan.

“Unfortunately, UK exports more young jihadists than any other European country,” confirmed this morning the former president of the Committee of British Intelligence, Neville -Jones. “How to convince these young people that belong to this country and can share the ambitions of other British ” was the question that the former minister left in the air, a reminder of the deadly attacks that hit London in 2005, perpetrated in its first wave by citizens of British and Pakistani origin.

Cameron dare not venture a new British military intervention in the event that the U.S. gave the same pitch, but his speech suggests that inaction at what happen sovereign Iraqi territory can have dire consequences for the UK, safety and of its citizens.

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