The United Kingdom has foiled 19 imminent Islamist attacks in five years and is monitoring 600 Muslims.

The UK's counter-terrorism chief explains in an interview that ISIS remains determined to attack the West.

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Laurence Taylor, head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, in an interview on the podcast The Crime Agents, collected and Published by the Daily Mail has provided relevant data on Islamist terrorism. It explains that only In the last five years the police have foiled 19 attacks «on the goal line'”to prevent imminent attacks posing a direct risk to the population.

More than 600 Muslims under surveillance

British counter-terrorism police are keeping more than a thousand people under surveillance for their possible involvement in extremist activities, with around 800 active cases currently open. According to the police official, Around 600 cases are investigations linked to Islamism., a figure that confirms that jihadism continues to be the main source of threat to the United Kingdom's internal security.

This constant vigilance follows a pattern that has been repeating for years: Gradual radicalisation, often in digital environments, followed by concrete steps towards violence. Despite police pressure, the ideological appeal of jihadism persists, especially among individuals willing to act alone, which forces the security services to intervene before the plans reach an irreversible point.

The threat that has never gone away

According to the British police, The jihadist threat has not disappeared, but ebbs and flows between phases of lesser and greater intensity., with spikes that demand constant vigilance.

Since the territorial defeat of the ISIS caliphate and the death of its leader in 2019, jihadist groups have reduced their direct operational capacity, but they have strengthened their ideological influence, especially through the internet.. This adaptation allows the will to attack the West to remain alive, to activate lone actors and to exert constant pressure on security services, which must act before the plots reach the point of no return.

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