MI5 Boss Warns Terror Groups Are Planning ‘Mass Casualty Attacks’ On Britain

Andrew Parker © Reuters

Daily Mail: 'Terror threat is the highest I've ever seen,' says MI5 chief: Britain faces unprecedented risk from ISIS and Al Qaeda fanatics

* In rare public speech, Mr Parker said Britain faces unprecedented threat
* He said ISIS and Al Qaeda are using web to plot 'mass casualty' attacks
* Threat is 'on scale and at tempo' he had never seen in his 32-year career
* Mr Parker also admitted for first time that MI5 had to hack terror networks
* And he warned that whistleblower Edward Snowden had caused 'damage'

Britain faces an unprecedented terror threat from Islamic State and Al Qaeda fanatics plotting ‘mass casualty’ attacks over the internet, the head of MI5 warned last night.

In a rare public speech, Andrew Parker said the Security Service thwarted six UK terror attacks in the past year and several overseas.

But he warned: ‘We can never be confident of stopping everything.’

The director-general of MI5 said the threat from jihadis was on a scale he had never seen in his 32-year career.

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