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MI5 chief says Britain faces greater danger than in 2001

MI5 chief says Britain faces greater danger than in 2001

Sir Ken McCallum, writing in the Independent on Friday for the 25th anniversary of 9/11, said the UK now faces state threats such as Russia and China alongside enduring mass-casualty terrorism. He called security a "shared national endeavour" and warned the next strategic shock may already be forming somewhere agencies are not looking. Al-Qaeda's capabilities are a "fraction" of 2001 levels, he said, but the ambition remains.

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