{"id":3410,"date":"2015-01-12T22:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2015-01-12T22:21:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:21:50","slug":"uk-to-intensify-fight-against-arms-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-to-intensify-fight-against-arms-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to intensify fight against arms smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cameron\"<\/a>Britain will intensify efforts to stop cross-border arms smuggling after last week\u2019s deadly attacks by militants in Paris and update its security protocols to deal with such incidents, Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s office said on Monday.
\nCameron held a meeting on Monday morning to review the Paris attacks to assess the risks of something similar happening in Britain at which the police and other agencies agreed to update their training exercises for such incidents.
\n\u201cThey also discussed the risk posed by firearms, agreeing … that we should step up our efforts with other countries to crackdown on the illegal smuggling of weapons across borders,\u201d a spokesman for Cameron said.
\nThe Paris attacks, in which journalists and policemen were among those killed, began with a shooting attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Jan. 7, and ended with a hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket on Friday. Britain raised its terrorism alert in August to the second-highest level, meaning an attack is \u201chighly likely.\u201d
\nThe head of Britain\u2019s MI5 Security Service said last week that Al-Qaeda militants in Syria were plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West.<\/p>\n

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