Britain has become the main target for the resurgent terror group Al Qaeda, outstripping the United States, the Guardian reported, citing counter-terrorist officials.
Intelligence experts fear the UK is a target as never before, with extremists intent on carrying out a huge spectacular, on the scale of the US atrocities in 2001.

"They viewed 7/7 as just the beginning," said one senior source. "Al-Qaida sees the UK as a massive opportunity to cause loss of life and embarrassment to the authorities."

A second source agreed: "Britain is sitting at the receiving end of an al-Qaida campaign." Intelligence chiefs have told the Guardian that al-Qaida has substantially recovered its organisation in Pakistan, despite a four-year military campaign to seek out and kill its leaders.

In that time, the organisation has become much more coherent, with a strong core and a regular supply of volunteers. Britain is an easier target, they have concluded, because of its traditional links with Pakistan, which is visited by tens of thousands of people each year.

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