Report: There Are 23,000 ‘Potential Jihadis’ In The UK

This is horrifying.

According to a new report from Express UK, there are an estimated 23,000 “potential jihadis” in the UK, and British security services are having trouble keeping track of them.

The figure is more than six times the figure previously released by the Home Office at the time of last month’s Manchester bombing.

 

Then, it was revealed the security services had 500 live investigations into more than 3,000 suspected radical jihadis, including about 400 people who have remarkably been allowed to return to our shores after fighting with terror group Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.

 

But, it has since emerged a further 20,000 radical Islamists have been considered a “person of interest” to the security services at anyone time, according to a security services source.

I believe it. After all, one of the London terrorists was known to authorities in some capacity. For crying out loud, he appeared in a documentary on British jihadists, and nothing was done about it. And Salman Abedi– the terrorist who murdered people at Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester– was known to authorities too, yet he was still able to carry out his deadly attack.

This is completely unacceptable.

Security minister Ben Wallace said all 23,000 people were “in the mix and had to be looked at”, but could not say how this was possible.

 

He said: “All of that is predominately underpinned by intelligence, which as I’m sure you will understand and the courts certainly understand, unfortunately the hardest part is we’ve got to get convert intelligence into evidence if we actually want to deprive people of their liberty or take certain steps.”

And these are just those authorities are aware of.

Think about how much chaos just one Islamic terrorist can cause. Knowing that “thousands” of them are walking around in Western societies and planning attacks is terrifying.