(BBC News) Gordon Corera - The UK's intelligence services are facing an "intense" challenge from terrorism, the head of MI5 has warned. Andrew Parker said there was currently "more terrorist activity coming at us, more quickly" and that it can also be "harder to detect." The UK has suffered five terror attacks this year, and MI5 was following 3,000 individuals involved in extremist activity. Parker said the tempo of counter-terrorism operations was the highest he had seen in his 34-year career at MI5. Twenty attacks had been foiled in the last four years, including seven in the last seven months, he said - all related to Islamist extremism.
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