Far-Right ‘is learning to make bombs from IS’

BRITISH far-Right extremists are studying Islamic State bomb-making manuals on the web, the security minister has warned.

Ben Wallace said neo-Nazis were exploiting the internet in the same way as Islamist terrorists and had become ‘more capable and more organised’.

He told MPs on the Commons defence select committee: ‘In the past they had no friends, they couldn’t talk to anyone else. Now they live in a virtual safe space, they communicate through the internet. They learn how to do awful attacks. Sometimes we find them looking at IS terror manuals to learn how to make bombs.

‘That’s given them better organisation and better momentum.’

It is understood MI5 is monitoring farRight groups whose members are accessing IS material to learn military tactics. A security source said bomb-making videos published by IS could be ‘made use of’.

Another concern is that the far-Right will try to emulate jihadis’ propaganda techniques to spread their own vile ideology and recruit members.

IS published a magazine called Inspire which contained bomb-making instructions and analysis of terror attacks such as the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in 2015. Mr Wallace said far-Right groups were yet to reach the level of ‘determined conspiracy or cultural religious depth’ of the Islamists but added that ‘individuals are starting to pose significant danger’.

Mr Wallace said the prevalence of the Right-wing threat is higher in different parts of the country and was greatest in the North-East and North-West.

He said action needed to be taken to stop groups of extremists becoming terrorists.