11/29/2009
Wow, I would have thought that Britain already has plenty of resident hostiles, like the Islam4UK bunch that demands sharia law in the country. Plus a poll taken in 2006 found that 40 percent of Muslims living in the UK want sharia to replace British law. And several "home-grown" terrorists who were born in the UK blew up themselves and hundreds of others in London on July 7, 2005, killing 56.Yet the big cheese terrorists apparently think that Britain needs still more imported killer Islamics. Who knew?
Seriously, the presence of gazillions more questionable Muslims makes the job of national security that much harder for police.
Counter-terrorism police and Whitehall officials believe dozens of extremists could have arrived here by posing as students or legitimate visitors.Too much diversity for police to track? Sounds like it.They are concerned both by the relatively lax checks that are made on the visitors before they arrive and by the ease with which they can outstay their visas without anyone noticing.
As many as 13,000 visa applicants may have entered the country from Pakistan in a seven month period since October last year without any checks on their supporting documentation.
The security services fear that because most do not mix with home grown terrorists, they are able to operate under the intelligence radar, acting as sleeper cells until ready to launch attacks in Britain.
Every year around 100,000 visitors arrive in Britain from Pakistan alone, which has been described by the Prime Minister as being part of a "crucible of terror" along with Afghanistan.
They are supposed to be checked by Home Office visa staff working in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
But according to an official watchdog, the Independent Monitor for Entry Clearance, many visa officers do not have "enough time to go through applications carefully".
The security services are also worried about arrivals from Somalia, Yemen and North Africa. [Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells, By Duncan Gardham, Daily Telegraph, November 28, 2009 ]
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