British Home Secretary: British Extremists Using Syria as Terrorist Training Ground then Coming Back Home

LONDON- British Home Secretary Theresa May has warned that British extremists are going to Syria for terrorist training and returning to Britain. She also disclosed that security has been tightened at shopping centers amid fears of terrorist attack in the UK according to the British “Daily Telegraph” Newspaper.

May declared that Extremists of a so-called “Jihadi mindset” are using the Syrian territories “as a nursery” before coming back to Britain as trained terrorists.

“What we have seen for some time now is that a number of British people are traveling out to Somalia, and now we’re seeing people travel out to Syria,” May said in an interview with the BBC.

The British Home Secretary added that they are getting live training in the conflict in Syria and then coming back to Britain. May warned that UK security services already consider them to be “prospective terrorists”.

While such members of the Syrian opposition have previously been called “foreign fighters,” May said she viewed them as “potential terrorists, some of whom will be of a jihadi mindset.”

May also said it was right that the British Government looks at every possibility of an attack and finds ways to deal with that. “We can never be complacent, we must always look to see if there is something more that we can be doing,” the Home Secretary added.

In March the British Home Office issued its annual report titled “The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism” which marked a similar terrorist threat.

“There are now hundreds of foreign fighters from Europe in Syria. And when UK residents return here there is a risk that they may carry out attacks using the skills that they have developed overseas,” the report highlighted.

H. Mustafa