British Prime Minister David Cameron says the UK plans to review its terror threat level following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
“Last night’s attacks show a degree of planning and coordination and a greater ambition for mass casualty attacks,” he said, after a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee.
The British prime minister also described Friday’s attacks as the “worst act of violence on French soil since the second world war and in Europe for a decade”.
"We must be prepared for a number of British casualties… however much we prepare, we in the UK face the same threat,” he warned.
The attacks indicated that the threat from the ISIL terrorist group was "evolving", with a "new degree of planning and co-ordination and a greater ambition for mass-casualty attacks," Cameron added.
'Repressing Muslims'
A London-based journalist and activist believes that the British government will use the recent terrorist attacks in Paris to “repress” Muslim communities in the UK.
“David Cameron will utilize the recent terrorist attacks in Paris for two main things. He’s going to scapegoat migrants and refugees and racialize everything in an islamophobic manner. So, Muslims will be targeted in the broader strategy and tactics that Western states, particularly Britain, use to criminalize the Muslim community and demonize them… and repress them at the same time,” Sukant Chandan told Press TV’s UK Desk on Saturday.
He also criticized the Western governments’ support for the terrorist groups in Syria and said those behind the terror attacks in Paris are “the same armed gangs” supported by the US, UK and France.
“These armed gangs which are conducting terrorism in France, are exactly the same armed gangs which France, the US, and the UK are supporting and using in their project to overthrow the legitimate sovereign government of Syria,” Sukant Chandan noted.
Exporting terrorism
Back in October, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the European Union has turned into an exporter of terrorism to crisis-hit countries like Iraq and Syria.
"The reality is that our continent exports more than imports terrorism," Mogherini told an annual conference of the European Union Institute for Security Studies.
She said European countries should adopt a unified strategy instead of "turning inwards" and building walls to deal with global crises in today’s world.
"Walls are of little use when there is no fine line separating the inside from the outside," the senior diplomat stressed.
A growing number of foreign terrorists in both Iraq and Syria have come from numerous European states, with Western authorities failing to stop the flow of the militants to the region – mostly through Turkey. Western governments fear that the battle-hardened militants may carry out terrorist attacks once they return home.
There may be some 5,000 Europeans fighting alongside extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, according to the New York-based Soufan Group and the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence.
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