WALTHAM FOREST: Borough's extremists 'are threat to Olympics'
8:40am Monday 13th February 2012 in Where I Live By Daniel Binns
WALTHAM Forest is home to a number of Al Qaeda-inspired extremists who are a "high-level" threat to the Olympics, a report has claimed.
The national Guardian newspaper (link) says councillors in the borough have been shown a restricted counter-terrorism local profile (CTLP) report from the police and the Home Office in the run-up to the Games this summer.
It apparently states that there is "a high-level threat of AQ-inspired extremism from males aged between 20 and 38.
"The individuals of interest to the police are predominantly British-born, second and third-generation migrants from south-east Asia," it continues.
"There is also interest from a number of Middle Eastern political movements and AQ-affiliated groups from north Africa."
The Guardian report claims that Games officials are "uneasy" about the propsect of a home-grown terrorist attack during the Olympics and fear possible action from 'lone wolf' individuals who are harder to detect.
It says a paper on how Waltham Forest implements the government's Prevent strategy on combating violent extremism reports additional local concerns such as "perceptions of inequality driven by relatively high deprivation levels, particularly within Pakistani communities".
It states there is a "growing discontent on local benefits around the Olympics" and also acknowledges the growth far-right extremism.
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Comments(7)
ShinySue
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2:31pm Mon 13 Feb 12
fabster
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6:06pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Let's see if Cllr Liaquat Ali MBE, responsible for social cohesion, steps up & deals with members within his own community. After all, he is supposedly held in high regard within the mosques of the borough, as well as an ally of certain Pakistani political/opposition
al parties, so is best placed to manage the community highlighted in this report.
mdj
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6:40pm Mon 13 Feb 12
It's odd: only a few years ago a British political party leader was facing prosecution for saying exactly that. What happened, in the end?
dukes of hazzard
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4:58am Wed 15 Feb 12
Anyway, given none of us got tickets to the games we won't need to worry. We'll be watching all those clean living athletes on tv in the safety of our own homes, whilst ordering a curry from 'that community'. I remember when lbwf was a great place to live because all the bigots lived in Harlow or dunmow. Talking of extremist communities... What ever happened to zola budd's. She ran for gb didn't she..and her community where a lovely bunch of people weren't they. Let he who has not sinned.....
Walthamforest1993
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5:47am Wed 15 Feb 12
WCBMI5
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11:53pm Sat 18 Feb 12
myopinioncounts says...
10:40am Mon 13 Feb 12