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The number of white terror suspects being arrested in the UK has outstripped those of Asian appearance for the second year in a row.
Official figures showed that that 117 white people were arrested on suspicion of terror offences in 2019, compared with 111 Asian suspects and 21 black suspects.
“The proportion of white people arrested exceeded the proportion of Asian people arrested for the second consecutive year, having not done previously since 2004,” a Home Office document said.
The change comes after increased police operations against far-right extremists, including members of National Action.
The neo-Nazi terrorist group was banned in 2016 but split into factions that operated under different names, whose members were later arrested in mass raids.
The head of counterterror police declared right-wing extremism as the fastest-growing terror threat in the UK in September, and intelligence agencies have been brought in to tackle it for the first time.
A total of 25 attack plots have been foiled since March 2017 – 16 Islamist, eight far-right and one other.
There were 280 arrests for terrorism-related activity in 2019, two fewer than the previous year.
Lizzie Dearden Security Correspondent
@lizziedearden
Thursday 5 March 2020 09:45
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/white-people-terror-offences-number-ethnic-group-asian-home-office-a9376846.html
Exercises:
1. Translate the following sentences:
1) He was a tall, fleshy man somewhere in his forties, with pale gold hair and a reddish complexion which the envious put down to drink and the charitable to an excess of sun; his face seemed familiar in a way which made you forget to ask whether or not you judged it good-looking. 2). Nowadays Franklin travelled on a green Irish passport with a gold harp on the cover, which made him feel like a Guinness rep every time he produced it. 3) There was always at least one of them, playing the puzzled yet reasonable amateur; unfooled by received opinion, he - or she - knew that historians were full of bluff, and that complicated matters were best understood using zestful intuition untainted by any actual knowledge or research. 4) The second half of this gesture was not strictly necessary. 5) They waited for half an hour in a silence that smelt of urine before the leader of the visitors returned. 5) `When will that be?' Franklin felt himself a little carried away by his self-appointed role. 6) Ten minutes later an Arab they had not seen before came in and whispered to Hughes. 7) Occupants of the same cabin are to identify themselves as such. 8) They will be allowed to talk to one another for five minutes at each hour. 9) The good part was that so far they had been treated with reasonable civility; no-one had yet been beaten up or shot, and their captors didn't seem to be the hysterical butchers they might have expected. 10) Neither the leader nor the second-in-command survived, so there remained no witness to corroborate Franklin Hughes's story of the bargain he had struck with the Arabs.
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2. Match a word or a phrase and its meaning:
pass up the chance a person’s experience and qualifications, which make them suitable for a particular task or job
credentials had suddenly understood
at this juncture a town in the middle of England
had latched on to what he was doing at this moment
Kidderminster attack done in advance, to prevent the attack of enemy
pre-emptive attack to give up the chance
3. Write an essay on any of the suggested topics:
1) How to fight terrorism?
2) Is terrorism a frequent phenomenon in our days?
3) What is terrorism?
