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LONDON – A group linked to al-Qaida and banned in the United States is being allowed to continue recruiting young British Muslims in the United Kingdom – despite a recommendation by the British security and intelligence agency MI5 that the organization be proscribed.
No reason has been given why the group, al-Shabaab, has not been banned. Security Service chief Jonathan Evans is “concerned” that al-Shabaab continues to operate after Britain elevated the U.K. terror threat from “substantial” to “severe.”
The new alert means a terrorist attack is considered “highly likely.” The warning places Britain one step below “critical” – that an attack is “expected imminently.”
Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who still allows al-Shabaab to operate, has asked the public to be “more aware” under the new threat level.
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In the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the London engineering undergraduate accused of trying to blow up nearly 300 passengers on a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day, al-Shabaab has continued to recruit graduates from top British universities. Several are Muslim converts who are white, British-born nationals.
Sheik Mohamed Ahmed, a moderate Muslim community leader who preaches in north London, last weekend publicly spoke out against the threat al-Shabaab poses.
“The group’s members are free to recruit who they want,” he said.
Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist command insists surveillance operations have raised no reason to intervene against the group.
But MI5 analysts regard the organization as a franchise of al-Qaida.
“While it has been careful to make no threat against the U.K. it has encouraged white Muslim converts to travel to Somalia to join this extremist organization in fighting that country’s pro-Western government,” said an intelligence source.
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