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Australian IT - Email alerts for terror threats (Correspondents in London, JANUARY 10, 2007)
JANUARY 10, 2007
BRITAIN'S domestic security service MI5 has launched a service offering to warn people by email alerts of any increase in the terrorist threat to the country.
Internet users can register on the MI5 website - www.mi5.gov.uk - to receive automatic electronic updates notifying them of any change in the security level.
The threat level is assessed by the British government's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) and has been posted on the MI5 and Home Office sites since last year.
That move prompted considerable public interest and the email alerts were designed to build on that, said an unnamed government source quoted by Britain's Press Association news agency on Tuesday.
The current threat level has been at "severe" - the second-highest - since early August, when police and security services say they foiled an attempt to blow up transatlantic passenger jets with liquid explosives.
The highest level, "critical", means an attack is expected imminently; "severe" indicates an attack is thought "highly likely"; the lower ratings are "substantial", "moderate" and "low".
In November last year, the head of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, said her agents were tracking more than 1600 suspects from 200 groups, most of them with ties to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
She also warned that while home-made, improvised explosives may be used now, future terror attacks could involve chemical, bacteriological, radioactive and even nuclear material.
Reuters
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