Growing UK concern about 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks -top policeman
Law enforcement authorities in Britain are increasingly worried about the risk of a "lone wolf"-style militant attack and have foiled four or five plots this year, London's top police officer said on Sunday.
The assertion, by Bernard Hogan-Howe, the commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, comes on the eve of a terrorism awareness campaign and as the government prepares to introduce a law that would make it easier for the police to identify who is using a computer or a mobile phone at any given time.
Britain has been considered a target for Islamist militants since the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States, and 52 people were killed when four young Britons carried out suicide bombings in London in 2005.
Britain raised its terrorism alert to the second-highest level in August, saying militants in Syria and Iraq posed the biggest threat to its security. That meant an attack was deemed highly likely for the first time since mid-2011.
