IS militants are plotting ‘terrible’ UK attacks: PM

LONDON: 

Prime Minister David Cameron warned on Monday that Islamic State militants based in Syria and Iraq were planning specific attacks against Britain and posed an existential threat to the West.

Cameron was speaking after a gunman killed up to 30 British tourists in an attack last Friday that British politicians have described as the single worst assault on their nationals since the bombing of the London underground in 2005.

“It is an existential threat because what is happening here is the perversion of a great religion and the creation of this poisonous death cult is seducing too many young minds,” Cameron told BBC radio.

“There are people in Iraq and Syria who are plotting to carry out terrible acts in Britain and elsewhere and as long as IS exists in those two countries we are at threat,” said Cameron.