Over 1600 people belonging to 200 different groups or organizations  are wanted  by British Intelligence Services because they could represent a  potential  danger for International Security, and many more are still unknown, Al-jazeera.net reported this morning 

As  Dame Eliza Menningham-Buller -the head of  the British spy agency MI5- declared, such people were proved to be “actively engaged in terrorism” . Many of them could be considered as involved in the organization of over 30 plots that were thwarted in last few months in England and that were originally aimed to provoke high damages both to people and to the economy. The others are suspected to collaborate with terrorist or facilitate and support  them in England and abroad.

Moreover, official statistics point out that British-based terror sympathizers almost redoubled since January 2006 (with a 80% increase), reaching a “speed and scale” of radicalization never experienced before, that makes the risk of terrorist attacks as impending as ever.

MI5 main worry is about the fact that this impressive hike in the number of people involved in terrorism concerns mostly young men and teenagers and that thanks to the raising of supporters (both active and “financial“ ones) home-made and rudimental explosives could be replaced, in the future, by more sophisticated weapons such as chemical or bacteriological materials.

The frightening perspective depicted by Menningham-Buller, according to whom the fight to terrorism will last not less than one generation, has came as a non-reassuring answer to the questions raised by the arrest of a British man, Dhiren Barot, who has been condemned to life imprisonment for plotting to kill thousands of people in the UK and in the USA.

"What we see at the extreme end of the spectrum are resilient networks, some directed from al-Qaeda in Pakistan, some more loosely inspired by it, planning attacks including mass-casualty suicide attacks in the UK," says Manningham-Buller.

The situation is quite critic in England, which has been on high alert since August 10th when what turned out to be an alleged attempt to blow up an airplane leaving from Heathrow airport , provoked an immediate reaction by authorities which tightened up anti-terror laws and restrictions.

According to what emerged during an official debate held in June 2006 at the English “House of Commons – Foreign Affair Committee” on the topic “Foreign Policy Aspects of the war against terrorism” , the problem about home-grown Jihad is that none is still able to give a clear and reliable description of  terrorist cell’s structure and of the interaction between each cell.

The only point commonly accepted is that those who carry out the attacks are just “front-line soldiers” who are prepared by someone else to what they call the “martyrdom”.

It seems just like behind them “there is a sort of mastermind who directed these people’s actions “, says Mr. Peter Taylor, a BBC collaborator who joined the debate: In his film on Pakistan, which was included in the series “The new al Qaeda”, he showed two interviews he did with President Musharraf and two with the ISI head of Counter-Terrorism centre who had no doubt about the fact that there should have been a “mastermind figure” behind both the attack to Madrid train stations and to the London Underground.

But these are just suppositions , and in spite of how much they could be verisimilar, they aren’t supported by any evidence or element that could help in the identification and tracing of those “leading minds” who, hidden in a shadowy corner, are secretly planning their next move.

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