Partnership and Continuous Improvement in Countering Twenty-First Century Terrorism |
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| Authors: | Manningham-Buller Eliza |
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| Affiliation: | * Former Director General of the M15 |
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| Abstract: | I will shortly be retiring as Director General of the SecurityService (M15), responsible for protecting the UK's nationalsecurity from terrorism as well as other threats. My successorwill inherit huge challenges, many of which will be shared withthe Police Service. |
The terrorist threat today
| The terrorist landscape has changed very markedly in the 5 yearssince I became Director General. The threat from Irish terrorismhas continued to decline. But at the same time the threat fromAl Qaida (AQ) and related terrorist groups has grown enormouslyand now presents the overwhelmingly greater challenge. It isthe specific focus of this article. The terrorist threat from AQ and related groups is, quite simply,unprecedented in scale, ambition and ruthlessness: they havea global reach, and they are willing to carry out mass casualtyattacks, including suicide attacks, without
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