Britain’s Security Chief warns that al-Qaeda ‘planning mass attacks’ on the West

The director general of Britain’s MI5 Security Service has warned that international terror group, al-Qaeda still has ambitions for a large attack on the West.

Andrew Parker said while speaking to a select group mostly from the Royal United Services Institute at his London (England) headquarters, that the so-called Islamic State (IS) is the newest threat to the West. Adding that self-started lone wolf plots are hard to foil.

In his words: “We still face more complex and ambitious plots that follow the now sadly well-established approach of al-Qaeda and its imitators: attempts to cause large scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets”.