British ISIS terrorists ‘planning major attack on UK soil,’ says Iraq’s chief counter-terror officer

(LBC) British ISIS terrorists are planning to launch a large-scale attack on UK soil, according to Iraqi intelligence officials.

The most senior counter-terrorism leader in Iraq General Abdul Wahab el-Saadi warned that Islamist extremists are plotting to target the UK with a “big attack” on a public gathering.

General al-Saadi told the Mirror: “We know ISIS have been talking to UK-based terrorists and we know what they are planning. It is a big attack.”

“In the past few weeks we launched major operations against Daesh or Islamic State and killed large numbers of terrorists, in one raid there were about five of them, all quite senior,” General al-Saadi said.

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