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10 Years after 7/7, Britain Still Top Terrorist Target

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Posted: July 14th, 2015

Ten years ago, four homegrown militants, some of who trained in Pakistan, launched devastating terror attacks in London. Today, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is exploiting widely used social media platforms and eliminating the need for a would-be attacker to travel outside his home country. The group is exporting its message and tactics to anyone willing to listen and execute them in Britain and beyond.

“It’s a somber time—a time of reflection. There is resilience and defiance mixed in with mourning and regret at what happened,” said Robin Simcox, Research Fellow at the London-based Henry Jackson Society.

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