Terror threat

Experts: Terror Alerts Are The New Normal

Following the 13 November attacks in Paris, terrorism analysts in the United Kingdom and Europe say the continent’s intelligence and security services have accepted the reality that ISIS appears not only to have the intention to continue to attack targets in Europe, but also the capability professionally to plan and execute such attacks, according to Homeland Security News Wire.

The signs of this growing awareness were evident on New Year’s Eve. Munich was partially evacuated following a terror threat on New Year’s Eve, and different events in other European cities were cancelled or scaled down owing to security concerns.

“For the last fifteen years there have been terrorist organizations who have wanted to carry out attacks in crowded places, so in that sense this is nothing new. And since the attack in 2008 in Mumbai we have been aware of the possibility of the marauding multi-site gun attacks,” said .Margaret Gilmore, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute