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Hey, maybe it was a bad idea to let all these jihadis into the UK?

Two men found guilty of UK plot to kill hundreds of Jews as IS fears grow

Two men were found guilty on Tuesday of plotting to kill hundreds in an Islamic State-inspired gun rampage against the Jewish community in England, a planned attack investigators say demonstrates the resurgent risk posed by the militant group.

Police and prosecutors said Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, who went on ?trial a week after an unrelated deadly attack on a synagogue in the nearby northwest city of Manchester in October, were Islamic extremists who wanted to use automatic firearms to kill as ?many Jews as they could.

Had their plans come to fruition, it would have resulted in “one of, if not the, deadliest terrorist attack in UK history”, said Assistant Chief Constable Robert Potts, in charge of Counter-Terrorism Policing in northwest England. (snip)

While not posing the same threat of a decade ago when Islamic State controlled vast areas of Iraq and Syria, European security officials caution that IS and affiliated al Qaeda groups are once again looking to export violence abroad, radicalising would-be attackers online.

“You can see signs of some of those terrorism threats starting to grow again and starting to escalate,” British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said last week.

The UK consistently lets in unvetted Islamists, and has for decades, even after the 7/7 bombing

Ken McCallum, head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5, said in October that his service and the police had thwarted 19 late-stage attack plots since the start of 2020, ?and intervened to counter many hundreds of other terrorism threats.

But, will the government do anything at all, or, continue to arrest British citizens for mean tweets and flying the Union Jack?