Richard Barrett Featured on BBC News: ‘Not Possible’ to Monitor All UK Syria Fighters
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Former MI6 director of global counter-terrorism Richard Barrett: “You don’t know which ones are coming back… quite severely radicalised.”
The security services will not be able to monitor all of the Britons who return to the country after fighting in Syria, a former MI6 director has said.
With reports that up to 500 Britons may be fighting in Syria, Richard Barrett said the number who would return to pose a terror threat was unpredictable.
Chancellor George Osborne said there would be funding to protect the UK.
This comes after an apparent recruitment video for jihadists in Iraq and Syria featured several Britons.
Former MI6 director of global counter-terrorism Mr Barrett told the BBC News Channel it was “out of the question” for the security services to follow all of the Britons who had fought in Syria if and when…
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