Thousands of Islamic State (IS) sympathizers in the United Kingdom could delay plans to travel to Iraq and Syria to join the terror group and instead choose to stay back and launch attacks on home soil in direct response to the nation's decision to conduct air strikes in the Middle East, experts have warned.
Analysts from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence said they had identified a group of IS supporters numbering several hundred, who they believe might now stay in the UK rather than fight abroad. They classified the group as IS' "fanboys," reported The Guardian.
Professor Peter Neumann, director of the centre, said the MPs' vote for air strikes in Iraq has shifted the frontline from Syria and Iraq to Britain.
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