Threat From Islamic State Compared To IRA

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The man in charge of overseeing UK anti-terror laws has compared the threat of Islamic State in Britain to that once posed by the I-R-A.

Max Hill told the Sunday Telegraph that IS represent at least a great a threat as when the IRA were active in the UK during the 1970’s.

And, he described the risk posed by IS as ‘significant and ongoing’.

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Chip Chapman, former anti-terror expert at the British Ministry of Defence, said the fact that there have been no attacks there so far is thanks to police work.