A major terrorist attack is being planned on a UK public gathering by British ISIS fighters, The Mirror has revealed. The security threat warning came from Iraq’s most senior counter-terror officer, whose troops uncovered the plot.
The Mirror is in Iraq where they have joined the Counter Terror Service in Baghdad as they trained for their next SAS-style assault on the terror group, also known as Daesh.General Abdul Wahab el-Saadi warned: “We know ISIS have been talking to UK-based terrorists and we know what they are planning.
It is a big attack.”Special forces discovered the shocking plans for an international plot against the UK just days ago after killing dozens of militants in a desert hideout.The general, 60, said: “We discovered that the UK is the next target outside Iraq.“In the past few weeks we launched major operations against Daesh or Islamic State and killed large numbers of terrorists, in one raid there were about five of them, all quite senior.“I can tell you that from the information we found at the site of one of our recent raids the next intended terror attack will be in the United Kingdom.”Asked to describe the UK cell, he said: “These terrorists are British nationals.”The Mirror agreed not to reveal some of the specifics Gen al-Saadi shared for security reasons as western intelligence agencies are working to smash the plot.It is understood that they had already been made aware by senior Iraqi intelligence officials.ISIS commanders in Iraq want a specific type of public gathering to be attacked to maximise the horror.The general said: “The Islamic State fighters we are coming up against here are Iraqis and we no longer believe there are foreign fighters in our country.“But we do have evidence that
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