Paris Terror Attacks: UK Prime Minister reveals Britain has prevented seven terror attacks in last six months

Security services have prevented seven attacks in the UK over the last six months, David 

Cameron said as he warned a Paris-style attack "could happen here". 

The terror spree in France "was the sort of thing we warned about" in planning with the 

security services but such atrocities meant -you have to go right back to the drawing 

board" to work out what more steps needed to be taken, the Prime Minister said. 

Asked if Britain was at war with the Islamic State terror group, which has claimed 

responsibility for the slaughter, Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that 

the UK stands in "total solidarity" with France and would do "everything we can" to 

defeat the jihadis. 

The Prime Minister was speaking shortly before a meeting with Vladimir Putin on the 

fringes Of the G2() summit in Turkey, at which he urged the Russian president to "work 

together" with Western powers in the international struggle against IS, which Britain 

believes is also responsible for downing a Russian airliner in Egypt last month. 

Mr Cameron offered Mr Putin his condolences for the 224 deaths on board the Metroiet 

flight from Sharm el-sheikh and told him: "We are meeting together after the appalling 

terrorist attacks in France, and it is clear to me that we must work together to defeat    this 

scourge Of terrorism that is a threat to Britain, a threat to Russia and a threat to us    all. 

The Russian president has also spoken to US President Barack Obama, German 

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian PM Matteo Renzi within the last 24 hours as 

Western leaders combined to make overtures to Russia to co-operate over Syria. 

Mr Putin told Mr Cameron that UK-Russian relations were "not in the best shape", but 

thanked him for sharing UK intelligence in a phone call following the Sharm crash and 

added: "The recent tragic events in France show that we should join efforts in preventing 

terror. 

Citation: 

Woodcock, Andrew.
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Response: This article does not necessarily

talk specifically about the details of the Paris attacks that happened this
past week, but rather the response of the western nations to this attack. In
this article, Britain also admits to having stopped 7 terrorist attacks in the
past 6 months which shows that, clearly, this has become a world issue, not
just one between terrorists and France. The author of this article seems to
have some bias against Russia (and their decision to not join the other western
nations on this conflict) and for the other western nations as they take a
stand. It will be very interesting to see what will come of this union between
the western nations and what they will be able to accomplish together. Overall,
I thought this article was short, but informative of the way that everyone is
getting involved after the Paris Terrorist attacks.