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7th July 2009, 09:50
POLICE are preparing for a terror attack by white right-wing extremists who want to stoke racial tensions, a senior Met police officer has warned.
Officers fear the attack will be ‘spectacular’ and ‘lead to a loss of life or injury’, said Shaun Sawyer, Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism commander.
He told a meeting of British Muslims concerned about the danger to their communities that police were responding to the growing threat from right-wing extremists.
Mr Sawyer said of the far right; ‘I fear that they will have a spectacular... They will carry out an attack that will lead to a loss of life or injury to a community somewhere. They’re not choosy about which community.;
He also revealed that Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has asked the counter-terrorism command, SO15, to examine what the economic downturn would mean for far-right violence.
The terrorist threat posed by al-Qae-da remained the unit’s priority but the Met’s far-right section needed to be expanded, Mr Sawyer told the meeting.
‘It is a small desk, we need to grow that unit,’ he said.
At the weekend, it was revealed a network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs had been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives.
Thirty-two people have been questioned in the police operation, which saw England’s largest seizure of a suspected terrorist arsenal since the IRA mainland bombings of the early 1990s. Arms including rocket launchers and grenades have been recovered in the past six weeks.
Taken from The Metro news paper, page 9.
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Officers fear the attack will be ‘spectacular’ and ‘lead to a loss of life or injury’, said Shaun Sawyer, Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism commander.
He told a meeting of British Muslims concerned about the danger to their communities that police were responding to the growing threat from right-wing extremists.
Mr Sawyer said of the far right; ‘I fear that they will have a spectacular... They will carry out an attack that will lead to a loss of life or injury to a community somewhere. They’re not choosy about which community.;
He also revealed that Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has asked the counter-terrorism command, SO15, to examine what the economic downturn would mean for far-right violence.
The terrorist threat posed by al-Qae-da remained the unit’s priority but the Met’s far-right section needed to be expanded, Mr Sawyer told the meeting.
‘It is a small desk, we need to grow that unit,’ he said.
At the weekend, it was revealed a network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs had been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives.
Thirty-two people have been questioned in the police operation, which saw England’s largest seizure of a suspected terrorist arsenal since the IRA mainland bombings of the early 1990s. Arms including rocket launchers and grenades have been recovered in the past six weeks.
Taken from The Metro news paper, page 9.
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