UK faces new wave of homegrown attacks: report - Yahoo! News: "LONDON (Reuters) – Britain faces a new wave of attacks from poorly trained but highly motivated homegrown militants, as the al Qaeda threat shifts from big, sophisticated bomb plots to acts by individuals, a report said on Friday.
A shift in al Qaeda tactics, the growing radicalization of Muslims in prisons and a foreign policy that 'serves to focus alienation and resentment,' was fuelling the threat, the study by the Royal United Services Institute think tank argued.
'The conditions are all there for a series of attacks that could begin at any time,' said the report, co-authored by the Director of RUSI, Professor Michael Clarke, who has advised the government on security matters.
There have been 20 significant Islamist plots against Britain since 2000. Only one has been successful, the July 2005 London bombings by four young Britons which killed 52 people. More than 230 people have been jailed for planning attacks.
Britain is on its second highest threat level of 'severe,' meaning a terrorist attack is considered to be highly likely, and the RUSI report said Britain had more to fear than any other Western country from homegrown terrorism."
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