Speaking at the ASIS Asia Pacific Security Conference in Singapore last week, Dr Rohan Gunaratna warned of the threat from home grown groups in SE Asia who seek inspiration and know-how from the internet, rather than gaining front-line combat experience.
In the UK the picture is somewhat more complicated, if reports in the UK newspapers The Metro and The Sun can be relied upon. Quoting an unnamed RAF source, the newspapers claim that British regional accents have been detected in communications emanating from Taliban positions in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. For further details on the story click below:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=98358&in_page_id=64
And it appears much of the insurgency know-how being obtained on the battlefields of Afghanistan is being transferred back to the UK. A February 2007 report in the Daily Telegraph alleged that UK security forces are foiling terror plots in the UK at the rate of one every six weeks:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/04/nterr04.xml
