{"id":2725,"date":"2014-10-11T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T16:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2014-10-12T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T16:59:29","slug":"thousands-being-monitored-by-london-security-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/thousands-being-monitored-by-london-security-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands \u2018being monitored by London security services\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boris\"<\/a>Britain\u2019s security services are monitoring \u201cthousands\u201d of people in London, the city\u2019s mayor Boris Johnson said in an interview Saturday, amid heightened fears of attack by homegrown militants.
\nJohnson\u2019s comments came as Scotland Yard continued to question five men arrested in the capital on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terrorist act.
\n\u201cIn London we\u2019re very, very vigilant and very, very concerned,\u201d Johnson told The Daily Telegraph.
\n\u201cEvery day \u2014 as you saw recently, we had to raise the threat level \u2014 every day the security services are involved in thousands of operations.
\n\u201cThere are probably in the low thousands of people that we are monitoring in London.\u201d
\nBritain\u2019s terrorism threat level was raised to \u201csevere\u201d in August, the second-highest, which means that an attack is thought to be \u201chighly likely.\u201d
\nIntelligence services say the threat comes primarily from the Islamic State (IS) group and Al-Qaeda.
\nOn Friday, police across Britain were also warned by the top officer in charge of counter-terrorism, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley.
\n\u201cThe threat level to police officers and staff has been heightened, but we are used to confronting risk and danger, this is what we do on a daily basis, and we are well trained,\u201d he said.
\nThe government believes that around 500 people have traveled from Britain and are fighting in Iraq and Syria.
\nJohnson said that of these, \u201cwe think a third, maybe more \u2014 maybe half \u2014 come from the London area.\u201d
\n\u201cIf and when they come back, we have a real job to deal with them,\u201d he told the Telegraph.
\nMinisters have promised a string of measures to crack down on young British Muslims traveling to Syria and Iraq, including stopping them at airports and preventing them from traveling and tightening measures which could restrict their movements.
\n\u201cWe must do everything we can to defeat this ideology and prevent the radicalization of young British Muslims,\u201d Home Secretary Theresa May told the Conservative Party conference last month.
\nTwo Britons, David Haines and Alan Henning, have been murdered by IS militants since September.
\nBritain has sent eight jets to join air strikes on IS group targets in Iraq but is not taking place in strikes on targets in Syria.<\/p>\n

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