London: UK Home Secretary John Reid has warned that terrorists posed the greatest threat to Britain since Adolf Hitler.
He said that al-Qaeda was the most serious and severe among the terrorist groups.
In a major speech on security today, Reid is calling upon the people to do more to help the police and security forces stop the fanatics’ motives.
“We are facing the most sustained threat since World War Two. The security forces will deliver 100 per cent effort but they cannot guarantee 100 per cent success. Our common security will only be assured by a common effort from all sections of society,” The Mirror quoted extracts from his speech as saying.
“Security is becoming one of the highest concerns of daily living. We now live in a world where insecurity is a phenomenon that crosses the economic and social, the domestic and foreign, the psychological and physical, the individual and collective,” he said.
“Up until two decades ago, the Cold War froze the world into a static state. But we now confront a torrent of challenges following on from the thawing of the Cold War -porous borders, failed states, civil wars and ethnic tensions,” he added.
Reid's speech came in the wake of a survey that showed almost a quarter of British Muslims think the 7/7 bombings can be justified.
Forty-five per cent of them say that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy between the US and Israel.
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