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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Lost the Plot: What makes terrorist attacks fail

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How do we stop terrorists before they act? Are our security services operating with expert proficiency or is it just luck? The answer is unfortunately a mix of both, but that’s no reason to despair. Hannah Fearn speaks to The Independent's home affairs editor Lizzie Dearden about her book, Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed, to get an insight into British terror attacks that were stopped in their tracks. “The pool of people susceptible to terrorism grew during the lockdown.” “Security services were so focused on stopping people from joining Isis that more attacks happened in the UK.” “So many terrorists receive a mental health diagnosis at the point of criminal conviction.”  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Book Link: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Homegrown/Jeffrey-Toobin/9781668013571 Written and presented by Hannah Fearn. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Alex Rees. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7-7 or the Manchester Arena bomb or even smaller acts of public violence like

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the Stretum High Street knife attacked in 2020.

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There are more than twice as many plots that have foiled before they even begin.

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Lizzy Dearden, who has been reporting on counter terror and extremism for almost a decade now,

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found herself fascinated by what happens when we get it right

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and what kind of person becomes a terrorist in the first place and she's here to

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share what she dug up. Hi Lizzy. Hi yeah. You've got a new book out plotters the UK

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terrorists who failed which tracks the history of some of those also rans from the

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last five years. What made you first start looking into these failures?

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