Ahmed Hassan’s murderous intent on a tube train at Parsons Green was thwarted by good luck, rather than the elegant architecture of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy. This ought to be a cause for serious concern. The Iraqi teenager was very well known to authorities at the time of his terrorist attack last September. During the trial it emerged that he was being managed by the Prevent strand of our national strategy Contest.
Prevent is a paradox. It is the most publicised yet least understood weapon in our counter-extremism tool box. A combination of inexplicable paralysis by government and relentless opposition by a small number of ideologically motivated pressure groups such as Cage has distorted both its objectives and its operation.
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