that is the concern of the tucker: i guess. it is hard to generalize about the intelligence organizations, if the huge group. but this has been going on for a long time. you can hardly blame his intemperate language for all of it. in the 18 terror plots that have been foiled in the last couple of years, two-thirds were hatched apparently by people who would be affected by this temporary stop on immigration from those countries. so, why would that have been a bad thing? two-thirds. i don t know. the kino institute did a study in a look to people from 1975 tn refugees have come here. not a single one has committed a terrorist attack. that is just a big number. so, we have to do this, as the world is, rather than the way the president or others might want to see it. this is not a clash of civilization. we have got effectively from law
this group, one terror analyst said that 50% of terror plots in the uk have actually involved members of this group. so this is a group that is very well-known. for years, they were dismissed by many people as sort of clowns with gowns. they were over the top. they were considered silly almost or posturing. it s clear that they should be taken on one level very seriously. stay with us. i want to bring in others. paul, what have you been learning? one of the other things we have been learning from our colleague who spent time investigating this group in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and met with butt, one of the london attackers, was that he was very, very close in this group to a british extremist. he left the uk in october 2014
right now. they couldn t marshall the air service to come and do all of this. police are often unarmed and we want to finish with you, three attacks in ten weeks. there s a question what is it about the uk that makes it horrible to so much radicalization, these types of attacks. the attacks in a few weeks, as you mention. the authorities have disruptive. we are facing now an on slot. as isis continues to lose territory iraq in syria, it shows that it has the ability to control terror plots and effectively it s this kind of mentality, if they re going to bailout. they want to take as many people with them as possible. the experience two years ago, belgium and germany now tragically i m afraid. but i also want to praise our police. they ve done a great job and that s what s mentioned the fact
she appeared on itv british news saying they do not believe there is a larger network at play. that said, we also heard from the british prime minister theresa may saying, you know what, we ve had three terror attacks in three months. we ve had another five terror plots that we have successfully managed to disrupt, but there is a larger linkage here. not a network linkage, but an idealogy linkage. and she talked about the extremist idealogy or, rather, the evil idealogy of islamist extremism and the need for a review of british counterterrorism policies. she said that essentially great britain has been too tolerant for too long, and to use her words, she said enough is enough, fareed. clarissa ward, great reporting. thank you so much. now let us bring in a panel of experts to explore this further. in london, a geopolitical analyst and author. he serves as the cofounder of
now to the latest in the n manchester bombing. it is likely that isis trained the bomber before the attack. this is while secretary of state rex tillerson is in london. with a show of sol daidaritysol uk shares intelligence with the u.s. we have clarissa ward with the latest. reporter: hi, alisyn. there have been raids going on overnight and into the morning as authorities continue to try to drill down on who may have helped the suicide bomber make the bomb and which network may help to facilitate the attack. british authorities released a staggering statistic, alisyn. the intelligence services said they are currently investigating 500 terror plots.