It’s madness to let jihadi terrorists come home

MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned this week that Britain was facing an unprecedented terrorist threat, the worst he had seen in his 34-year career.

Already in 2017, we’ve suffered five attacks with 36 people dead and hundreds injured. Meanwhile, 20 attacks have been foiled in the past four years, seven of them in just the past four months.

As Parker put it, there is ‘ more terrorist activity coming at us, more quickly’ than ever before and our intelligence services face an ‘intense challenge’ trying to keep us safe.

Yet despite this apocalyptic language, the head of our anti-terror watchdog has now declared that, far from facing prosecution, teenage jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria should be welcomed back.

Max Hill QC, independent reviewer of our terrorism laws, says: ‘ We should be looking towards integration . . . for those who have travelled out of a sense of naivety, possibly with some brainwashing.’

I’m sorry, but isn’t it Mr Hill who’s suffering from stupefying naivety? Returning jihadists have been trained in terror camps to use bombs and firearms to kill and maim.

More pertinently, they’ve been indoctrinated to loathe the West and all we stand for.

Around 400 of the 850 British ISIS terrorists battle-hardened in Iraq and Syria have already returned

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here. And we can expect more — up to 8,000 are likely to return to Europe after the fall of Raqqa in Syria which ISIS considered its capital city.

The last thing our valiant but overstretched security services need is more jihadists to monitor on the streets. They already have 500 live investigations under way with 3,000 people suspected of extremist activities and say it’s not a question of if the next attack occurs, but when.

Meanwhile, terrorists’ modus operandi is changing: lone wolf attacks with cars used as weapons, random knife attacks and bombs built with instructions from the internet — as in the case of the Islamist who slaughtered 22 in the Manchester Arena.

It takes just one of these returning ISIS fanatics to cause misery and carnage. The risk is simply too high.

They declared war on our country and our Allies. By doing so, they committed treason — a fate once punishable by death.

The only welcome they should receive if they return should be at Her Majesty’s Pleasure.