British Terrorism Threat

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5 (roughly the UK's FBI), gave her first public speech in a year and half. She said they were "dealing with up to 30 alleged "mass casualty" terror plots against British targets in the UK and abroad" and "that MI5 and the police were tackling 200 groups or networks totalling more than 1600 identified individuals in the UK who were 'actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts'". Perhaps the most surprising statistic was "If the opinion polls conducted in the UK since July are only broadly accurate, over 100,000 of our citizens consider that the July bomb attacks in London were justified."