British army may patrol streets to confront terror threat

Kim Sengupta
The Independent
February 5, 2010

Editor’s note: All manner of ordinary domestic criminal activity is now considered terrorism in Britain and the United States.

[efoods]Britain’s armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism, under the terms of a strategic defence review announced yesterday.

Two of the six “key questions” to be considered by the SDR will focus on domestic threats which “cannot be separated from international security”, according to a Green Paper setting out the grounds for a full scale review to start after the election.

Decisions need to be made on the “balance between focusing on our territory and region and engaging threats at a distance” and “what contribution the armed forces should make in ensuring security and contributing to resilience within the UK”.

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This article was posted: Friday, February 5, 2010 at 5:41 pm

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