{"id":46610,"date":"2014-08-20T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d80ac432cd1da439b25f0c9905f0b36c"},"modified":"2014-08-20T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:48:00","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-condemns-alleged-murder-of-james-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46610","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary condemns alleged murder of James Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said:<\/p>\n

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We haven\u2019t absolutely verified the video yet, but all the hallmarks point to it being genuine \u2013 an appalling example of the brutality of this organisation.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been saying for a very long time that there are a significant number of British nationals, both in Syria and Iraq, operating with extremist organisations. And that is one of the reasons why this organisation represents such a direct threat to the UK\u2019s national security. Many of these people may seek at some point to return to the UK and they would then pose a direct threat to our domestic security. This is a poison, a cancer, what\u2019s going on in Iraq and Syria, and it risks spreading to other parts of the international community and affecting us all directly.<\/p>\n

We have policies aimed at deterring people at risk of radicalisation from being radicalised and going out to Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

We do have a very major effort targeted at identifying people who may be sympathetic to these types of organisation and seeking to dissuade them from supporting them, seeking to prevent them from travelling \u2013 we have powers to prevent them from travelling, and monitoring what they\u2019re doing while they\u2019re out of the UK, and if they return to the UK and we can identify them, we have the power to arrest them and prosecute them for their activities outside the UK once they get back here. So we do have a wide range of powers. We have significant capabilities in our intelligence and security agencies to track and monitor what these people are doing, and we are putting a huge amount of effort into trying to keep tracks on them to make sure that they don\u2019t come back here and pose a direct threat to us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more about the UK government\u2019s response to the situation in Iraq.<\/a><\/p>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n

Follow the Foreign Office on twitter @foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow the Foreign Office on facebook<\/a> and Google+<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n 020 7008 3100\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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