Make New York Post a Preferred Source UK authorities let five accused terrorists out on bail Monday, after they'd gotten just few hundred yards from a base that hosts US bombers involved in striking Iran. AFP via Getty Images Can Britain any more terror-friendly?
The latest low: UK authorities let five accused terrorists out on bail Monday, after they’d gotten just a few hundred yards from a base that hosts US bombers involved in striking Iran.
They’d likely have gotten closer, too, if not for the farmer who spotted them — even though Tehran has made specific threats of consequences for Britain if it keeps letting American warplanes stage from its bases.
The farmer also says said she’s previously complained about poor security around the base, her first calls about the intruders to the Defense Ministry went unanswered and the slow response likely allowed some to escape.
This follows news that London granted refugee status to a Hamas veteran though his ties to the terror group were publicly known, and kept on hosting him after he was accused in a German terror plot.
Decades of let-’em-all-in policies have brought huge numbers of migrants into Britain from terror hotspots, with authorities so blinkered that grooming gangs abused girls for years as cops looked away for fear of seeming bigoted.
Fine, the airbase-incident investigation is far from over, but the government seems sanguine about its embrace of the Hamasnik, a former bodyguard for the terror group’s chief Ismail Haniyeh and son another Hamas honcho who’d been arrested in Egypt for operating a tunnel to sneak weapons into Gaza.
Worse, that arrest was enough to win him asylum, which set him up to apparently coordinate with terrorists throughout Europe; the Germans accuse him of playing a key role in plans to strike Jewish centers, Israeli diplomats and participants at pro-Israel demonstrations on the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Over the years, Hamas terrorists have flocked to the UK, which until 2021 had slapped sanctions only on the group’s terror units, not its political leaders.
The infestation may be why MI5 has set Britain’s terrorism-threat level to “severe,” the second highest after “critical.”
Meanwhile, the Labour government denounces its critics as bigoted haters.
So the answer to “can Britain get more terror-friendly?” looks to be: Just wait.
