Home Secretary May warned that the UK is facing its biggest ever threat of terrorism, and said authorities have foiled some 40 major terrorist plots since the July 2005 subway bombings. She is proposing new antiterrorism legislation, including measures to require schools, colleges, and probation providers help prevent radicalization. A senior antiterrorism official said that half of the British jihadists joining the Islamic State had been radicalized only recently. UK Islamist Siddhartha Dhar a.k.a. Abu Rumaysah claimed that he and his family had escaped Britain to join the Islamic State’s “caliphate.”
