London, Sept 20 (ANI): British Home Secretary Theresa May has warned that the Al-Qaeda leadership is till planning operations in the UK, while radicalizing and recruiting people to be sent to overseas for the same purpose.
The Telegraph quoted May as saying that the terrorist group is getting more "agile" and there is now a "new landscape of terrorism."
Although she acknowledged that the terrorist threat had changed significantly over the past ten years as al-Qaeda lost people, facilities, and freedom of action, along with much of its support, she warned that the country should be cautious because al-Qaeda is still planning "operations in the UK."
Insisting that a wider range of terrorist groups active in Pakistan, she said: "They attract people for training, they have sections dedicated to overseas operations, they radicalise and recruit. And even as the capability of the al-Qaeda leadership has reduced, other threats have emerged which, in the UK, affect us directly."
She called for a "new and rather different relationships with our private sectors, who of course own much of this technology and who - for our wider benefit - will develop it as fast and as aggressively as they can." (ANI)
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