Home-grown Brits behind two-thirds of Islam-related terror in UK: Report

A new report has found that two-thirds of Islamism-related terrorism offences in the UK over the past decade involved home grown terrorists with links to al-Qaeda.

According to the Centre for Social Cohesion report, British citizens carried out 69% of such incidents between 1999 and 2009.

The report also found that individuals living in London committed some 48% of the 127 Islamism-related terrorism offences or suicide attacks.

The next two most common regions were the West Midlands (13 percent) and Yorkshire and Humber (nine percent).

“Al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism remains the biggest threat to the UK’s national security,” Sky News quoted the report, as saying.

“The Security Service estimates that over 2,000 people in the UK pose a terrorist threat and in March 2005 it was estimated that there were up to 200 al-Qaeda-trained operatives in the UK,” it added.