Jihad UK

A leaked memo from the Home Office has Britons gripped with fresh fears of a terrorist attack. The document, entitled Responding to Economic Challenges, envisages the following scenario:

If the economic situation grows worse then the public might grow hostile to migrants. If this occurs, radical Islamist groups could be in a better position to recruit than they currently are. If they are successful British Muslims could carry out attacks in major British cities.

British finance minister Alistair Darling stoked the fire with another conditional sentence: 'the current slump could be the worst for 60 years,' he said yesterday.