UK TERROR HELLUK is home to 35,000 radical Islamists with 3000 ’worrying’ MI5 – says counter-terrorism chief. And, in the US?

UK TERROR HELL

UK is home to 35,000 radical Islamists with 3000 ’worrying’ MI5 – says counter-terrorism chief

Britain has more Islamists than any other European country and it's feared they'll try to target nuclear power stations and air traffic control systems with cyber attacks

By Jake Ryan

1st September 2017, 12:29 am

Updated: 1st September 2017, 12:59 am

BRITAIN has up to 35,000 radical Islamists, with 3,000 “worrying” MI5, the EU’s counter- terrorism chief says.

Gilles de Kerchove said the UK had more Islamists than any other European country.

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Britain has up to 35,000 radical Islamists says EU’s counter-terrorism chief

He also warned that IS would try to target nuclear power stations or air traffic control systems with cyber attacks.

And he claimed they could pay Russian hackers to do the work.

Mr de Kerchove, who works with Europe’s security services and governments, said: “The United Kingdom has identified 20,000 to 35,000 radicals.

"Of these, 3,000 are worrying for MI5, and of those 500 are under constant and special attention.

“France has 17,000. Spain many less, but more than 5,000. In Belgium almost 500 have been to Syria and there are around 2,000 radicals or more.”

He said there had been no recorded cases of cyberterrorism “in the sense of penetrating the systems of nuclear power stations, prisons or aerospace”.