Prime Minister Tony Blair said today that the threat from home-grown Islamic terrorism would last “a generation,” reinforcing a highly unusual warning by the head of the MI5 domestic intelligence agency that some 1,600 suspects in 200 terrorist cells were under surveillance. Historically, the head of MI5 does not make such public pronouncements. But it was a sign of changed times — and, perhaps of MI5’s campaign to secure more government funding and expand its ranks of agents and recruits — that the text of her speech was posted today on the MI5 Web site, prompting some Islamic leaders to say the authorities were again demonizing Britain’s 1.6 million Muslim minority. Full Story
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