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MI5 chief: UK facing growing threat from Islamic State, Russia and Iran
Ken McCallum says agency facing ‘one hell of a job’ to counter efforts to stage assassinations and terror attacks
The head of MI5 has said his agency has “one hell of a job” to do as the threat from Islamic State has returned while Iran and Russia engage in intensifying efforts to undertake assassination and sabotage plots in the UK.
Ken McCallum said a revival of IS in Afghanistan in particular had brought a resumption of efforts by the Islamist group to export terrorism, and a “bit of an upswing” in Britons seeking to travel abroad to learn from the group.
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