MI5 Warning: Al-Qaeda Spreading Operations Into New Countries
MI5 headquarters in London (Photo: Wiki Commons)
In a rare speech on Monday, the head of Britain’s intelligence service MI5, Jonathan Evans, said Al-Qaeda has been spreading its operations into new countries, with British-born extremists now being trained in places like Libya and Egypt.
Evans also warned that the UK was under threat from an “astonishing” number of cyber attacks.
Marco Werman speaks with BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera about the MI5 assessment.
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