'Islamic militants in Iraq planning to attack us here in the United Kingdom': Cameron warns MPs of terror threat from Middle East
Prime Minister says insurgents in Iraq planning attacks on the UK
Islamic terrorists fighting in Iraq are 'planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom', David Cameron said today. The Prime Minister told MPs that the crisis in the Middle East must not be dismissed as 'nothing to do with us'.
He said the jihadist insurgents in Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Nigeria would 'come back and hit us at home' if the UK did not help defeat them. . . .
'So the right answer is to be long term, hard-headed, patient and intelligent with the interventions that we make, and the most important intervention of all is to make sure that these governments are fully representative of the people who live in their countries, that they close down the ungoverned space, and they remove the support for the extremists.
'If we do that, not just in Syria, but we have to help in Iraq, in Somalia, in Nigeria, in Mali, because these problems will come back and hit us at home if we don't.' . . .
After that we will teach the lion to lie down with the lamb, as well as heal the halt and the lame with a laying on of hands, and, once we have finished, simply walk back home, on water.