Turmoil and terrorism in the Middle East are as grave a security threat to Europe as that posed by the Soviet Union during the cold war, the former head of MI6, the British secret intelligence service, has warned.
Violent attacks on European soil are both more difficult to interrupt than ever before and more likely to occur, Sir John Sawers told the Financial Times in his first interview since leaving office in November.
The Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris and the spate of terror warnings and clampdown on Islamist extremists around Europe were a wake-up call to the “heightened threat”, the 59-year- old former spy chief said.
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