More irresponsible Blairmongering

From The Times:
A CLAIM by Tony Blair that “several hundred” active terrorists are plotting or threatening an attack in Britain has been challenged by senior security officials. The Prime Minister said that terror suspects all fell outside the existing powers of the police and courts to prosecute them, which was why the new “control orders” were required. “There are several hundred in this country who we believe are engaged in plotting or trying to commit terrorist acts,” Mr Blair told Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Of that group of 200 or so, only 40 to 50 were regarded as a “moderate” or “serious” threat, and of that group up to 15 had disappeared from Britain altogether. That left around 25 or 30 who are known to be in Britain, with some of those in prison in Belmarsh.
The source said the Prime Minister’s estimates of the scale of the terrorist threat was sloppy. “It is irresponsible and likely to scare people unnecessarily,” the source said.