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UK has foiled 12 terror plots since June 2013: Britain's MI5 chief

Today the most visible threat is from terrorism and in particular that posed by Islamic State, Andrew Parker said.

London: Police and intelligence services have disrupted 12 plots to attack Britain since June 2013, Andrew Parker, director general of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency, said on Monday.

"Today the most visible threat is from terrorism and in particular that posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIL or Daesh in Syria. Together with MI6 (the foreign intelligence service), GCHQ (the security agency), and the police, MI5 has disrupted 12 plots in the UK since June 2013," Parker said, according to a text of his remarks posted on the agency's website.

( Source : reuters )
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