4,000 are UK terror suspects

THE number of suspected Muslim terrorists in the UK has multiplied nearly FOUR TIMES in seven months, security chiefs have been told.


A staggering 2,000 active terrorists are under watch in Britain.And there are another 2,000 sympathisers.

It is a massive rise from the 1,200 warned about by MI5’s former head seven months ago.

The chiefs of MI5, Scotland Yard and MI6 were told the figure last week.

Last night new Security Minister Lord West said: “This is a real threat to this nation and we have got to somehow confront it. The scale of this whole thing is quite dramatic.”

Gordon Brown wants a law change so suspects are held indefinitely and go before a judge every seven days. He is calling for a cross-party deal to avoid Commons defeat.