Britain Says Terror Threat Is Expanding ; Police Are Tracking Groups Planning Up to 30 Mass-Casualty Attacks in Britain and More Plots Abroad.

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British anti-terrorist police are tracking more than 200 groups and more than 1,600 suspects who are thought to be planning attacks in Britain and abroad, the head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency said in a speech released Friday in London.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director-general of MI5 since 2002, said networks inspired by the goals of international terrorism and either directed by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida in Pakistan or locally controlled are plotting about 30 mass-casualty suicide attacks in the United Kingdom.

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Britain Says Terror Threat Is Expanding ; Police Are Tracking Groups Planning Up to 30 Mass-Casualty Attacks in Britain and More Plots Abroad.

"Today we see the use of homemade improvised explosive devices; tomorrow's threat may include the use of chemicals, bacteriological agents, radioacti...

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