Source; TVC NEWS, Britain
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday he was ready to order air strikes
on Islamist militant targets in Libya and Syria to prevent attacks on the
streets of Britain as he stepped up his rhetoric against Islamic State
insurgents.
He
was speaking to reporters as he landed in Indonesia on the first leg of a
four-day trade mission he hopes to use to forge new political alliances to
counter a threat he has described as a "death cult".
"If
there is a threat to Britain or to our people on our streets ... we are able to
stop it by taking immediate action against that threat," said Cameron.
"As
prime minister, I would always want to try and take that action, and that's the
case whether that problem is emanating from Libya or Syria or anywhere
else."
Britain
raised its domestic terrorism alert to the second-highest level in August last
year, saying an attack was "highly likely".
Cameron
was due to meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo later on Monday to discuss how
the two countries could cooperate in the battle against Islamist militancy.
The
Islamist threat is high on the political agenda in Britain after a gunman
killed 30 British tourists at a Tunisian beach resort last month in an attack
claimed by Islamic State.
Tunisia's
government said at the time that the gunman had been trained in a jihadist camp
in Libya.
Britain
is already taking part in U.S.-led air strikes on Islamic State positions in
Iraq and Cameron is keen to get parliamentary backing later this year to extend
that aerial campaign to Syria. But he has not, before Monday, raised the
prospect of bombing targets inside anarchic Libya.
Cameron
spoke after The Sunday Telegraph reported Cameron and his advisers had
discussed what they could do to help defeat Islamist militants in Libya if a
stable government there emerged.
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