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General Ken McCallum warns that the next major terror plot may already be taking shape in an unexpected location.

General Ken McCallum, the director of Britain’s MI5 spy agency, issued a public warning on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks. He stated that the next strategic shock will not resemble the previous one and warned that the next major terror plot may already be taking shape somewhere that has not yet been identified.

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McCallum noted that while Al Qaeda remains a threat, other terror groups with ambitions for mass-casualty attacks also exist. He highlighted a recently foiled Islamist plot to murder hundreds in the Jewish community in Manchester. He also identified rising state-backed aggression, including cyberattacks on power stations and sabotage by criminal proxies, as significant security threats. McCallum called for a shared national endeavor where government, business, academia, and the public cooperate to treat national security as a collective responsibility rather than a specialist concern of a few agencies. He emphasized that because many security systems are now operated by the private sector, preventing the next attack requires cooperation across various sectors.

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