Col. Richard Kemp: London Bridge horror proves we need new solutions to 23,000 jihadists in the UK
Two innocent people are dead because of the Government’s refusal to confront the threat Britain faces from Islamic jihad.'I hope when I'm gone, someone picks my soul up and thinks, I would have loved her': Poignant past message of Cambridge graduate Saskia Jones, 23, is revealed as she's named as second victim of London Bridge terror attack
The chilling reality is that we are trying to deal with people who are fighting a war against us, using a criminal justice system designed for ordinary crime.
Since 9/11 it has been obvious we have faced a new and different challenge.
The Americans quickly recognised this and opened Guantanamo Bay as a form of PoW camp.
Meanwhile, the UK Government has kept its head in the sand.
MI5 claim there are 23,000 jihadists here who are of concern.
Friday’s horror on London Bridge shows new solutions are urgently needed.
We must ban anyone who has fought jihad overseas from returning.
We must deport any non-British citizen suspected of involvement or support for terrorism.
We must devise a method of judicial administrative detention to imprison those who cannot be deported or properly convicted through the normal legal processes.
In short, we must fight fire with fire.
The second victim of the London Bridge terror attack left a poignant past message on social media as her family paid tribute to the Cambridge graduate who was 'intent on living life to the full.'Islamic State Alive and Well in Europe
Saskia Jones, 23, of Stratford-upon-Avon, died alongside Jack Merritt, 25, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, after Usman Khan, 28, went on a deadly knife frenzy in London on Friday.
On her Twitter account, Miss Jones left a touching message in January 2017, which said: 'I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, 'I would have loved her.'
Both graduates were taking part in a prisoner rehabilitation conference that was trying to rehabilitate the likes of the terrorist who went on to kill them. Miss Jones was working as a volunteer and Mr Merritt as a coordinator.
The 23-year-old's family paid tribute to her 'funny, kind, positive influence', saying she was 'intent on living life to the full'.
"I think that the practice of automatic, early release where you cut a sentence in half and let really serious, violent offenders out early simply isn't working, and you've some very good evidence of how that isn't working, I am afraid, with this case." — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson November 30, 2019, after the ISIS attack on London Bridge a day earlier.
At least 1,200 Islamic State fighters, including many from Western countries, are being held in Turkish prisons. Another 287 jihadis have been captured by Turkish forces since the start of an offensive that began on October 9 against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced that Turkey would begin repatriating captured Islamic State fighters back to their countries of origin — even if their citizenship had been revoked.
"We could soon be facing a second wave of other Islamic State linked or radicalized individuals that you might call Isis 2.0." — Jürgen Stock, Secretary General, Interpol.
"From my point of view, it is better to know that these people are prosecuted in France rather than leaving them in the wilderness. How can we protect ourselves if we do not have them in custody? The best method is to judge and control them." — David De Pas, French anti-terrorism judge.