Neo-Nazis ‘becoming a serious terrorist threat to Britain’
The FT reports:
Police are investigating a global arms ring supplying white supremacist groups who are becoming a serious terrorist threat to Britain, a senior officer revealed on Thursday.
“There is a growing right-wing threat, not just Al-Qaeda,” Sir Norman Bettison, chief constable of West Yorkshire police, told a security conference in London, stressing that Islamist terror is not the only problem.
Sir Norman, whose force runs a regional counter-terrorism unit in Leeds, said more than 30 people in the UK had been investigated and pipe bombs, rocket launchers, grenades and firearms seized during the operation so far.
There had been arrests in the UK, continental Europe, New Zealand and Australia, he said. Some 300 firearms and 80 homemade bombs had been recovered.
Gene adds: Here in the US, the Southern Poverty Law Center records 75 plots and acts of terrorism by extreme Right and racist groups and individuals since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
(Hat tip: Adam Holland.)