Terrorist groups vie for presence in London
The UK has close and intertwined relations with extremist and terrorist organizations.
This is especially true in the case
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
London was the world's most leading center
for extremist groups in the 1990s. It served as a base for extremist groups
through the office of the Advisory and Reform Committee.
Nonetheless, the UK paid dearly for
nurturing these relations, having had its fingered burned by terrorism.
Ferocious
terrorism
Director-General of the British
intelligence, Ken MacCallum, announced recently that the British police and
intelligence had succeeded in foiling 31 planned attacks in the UK in the past
four years.
He confirmed the ferocity of
terrorism in the capital of fog, especially after it was hit by a large number
of terrorist operations.
The following are the most prominent
operations that Britain has witnessed during the past years:
Khairy Saadallah stabbed three
people in a park west of London on June 21, 2020. Saadallah was a 25-year-old British
national of Libyan origins, who was involved in a number of terrorism cases in
the past.
On June 3, 2017, an attack targeting
the London Bridge area left seven dead and 48 others wounded. The attack was
carried out with a bus that ran over pedestrians over London Bridge. Three men
then got off the vehicle and began stabbing people in the nearby Bara Market. The
suspects were killed minutes later with police gunfire.
On May 22, 2017, the city of
Manchester witnessed an attack that left 22 dead and 59 others wounded. The
attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who targeted children and youth at
the end of a concert by American singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena.
