MI5 Chief Offers Cautious Reassurance about Olympics
A month before the start of the Olympic Games, the chief of Britain’s domestic security service, MI5, offered a guarded reassurance on Monday about the risk of terrorist attacks during the 17-day spectacle in Britain, according to an article from The New York Times.
“No doubt some terrorists have thought about whether they could pull off an attack,” Jonathan Evans, MI5’s director general, told an audience in London. “But the Games are not an easy target, and the fact that we have disrupted multiple terrorist plots here and abroad in recent years demonstrates that the United Kingdom as a whole is not an easy target.”