Cameron outlines plan to tighten anti-terror measures

Published September 2, 2014
British PM David Cameron
British PM David Cameron

LONDON: Britain will make it easier for police to seize passports from would-be jihadist fighters, increase air travel checks and tighten controls on the movement of suspected radicals under plans announced by Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday.

Cameron was addressing the House of Commons after Britain on Friday raised its terrorism threat level to “severe” because of concern about possible plots by radical Islamist fighters returning from Iraq and Syria with battlefield experience.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd , 2014

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