How Britain Should Defeat the Terrorist Threat: A Conservative Vision for Counter-Terrorism December 3, 2009

Host: The Heritage Foundation. The United Kingdom and the United States jointly face a huge threat posed by international terrorist groups, many affiliated with al-Qaeda. In January 2009, the head of MI-5, Britain’s domestic security service, stated that 2,000 individuals in Britain alone were directly connected to Islamist terrorist plots and that many more supported terrorism through fundraising or propaganda. From September 11, 2001, to the end of March 2008, British authorities arrested 1,471 individuals on terrorism-related offenses. Join us as UK Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling assesses the tremendous challenges faced by the United Kingdom in confronting the threats posed by terrorist organizations and outlines a series of measures to defeat them.