Terrorists’ Next Target is U.K., Official Says

A senior European counterterrorism official says intelligence points to Britain as the next target for the Islamic State group, as a “follow-up” to the November 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

The terrifying message came as a terrorism analyst said he had been told about the threat by a senior European terror official.

The president also defended the United States’ current strategies, including its membership in a 65-country coalition against ISIS and local partnerships within Iraq and Syria.

There are unconfirmed reports that Isil has decided that the next target of an attack will be Britain. who also said intelligence indicates ISIS wishes to strike the United Kingdom as a followup to its recent attack in France.

Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said that Davies was arrested after Turkish and British intelligence worked together to track an IS member linked to British extremist Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed in the media as “Jihadi John”.

Meanwhile, a UK-based radicalisation expert told Daily Mirror that the United Kingdom is under threat from home-grown jihadis.

Suraj Lakhani, lecturer in criminology an sociology specialising in radicalisation and violent extremism at Sussex University, believes young British Muslims are being radicalised by British extremists.

There are now fears the threat of terrorism is spreading from the Middle East to Europe, with MI5 maintaining the severe terror alert threat in the United Kingdom, meaning an attack is highly likely.

Eighteen anti-terror arrests have been made in Belgium in the wake of the atrocities as well as 23 in Paris and one in Germany.

Swalwell said that Obama does understand the threat, but suggested that ISIS has been so successful overseas, “they are inspiring attacks that we don’t even know about among people that we’re not even contemplating to be threats”. But Obama called for calm and said that terrorists and ISIS “only win if we start reacting out of fear”.

As of the moment, there are not too many details about the attack and it is unknown which specific site or location will be targeted.