London mayor: City monitoring 'thousands' of suspected terrorists

London mayor: City monitoring 'thousands' of suspected terrorists
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London Mayor Boris Johnson says the city's security services are monitoring "thousands" of suspected terrorists, a far higher number than had previously been disclosed.

"In London, we're very very vigilant and very very concerned," Johnson told The Telegraph. "Every day — as you saw recently, we had to raise the threat level — every day the security services are involved in thousands of operations."

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"London has a particular concern," he said. "If and when (ISIS militants) come back, we have a real job to deal with them."

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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.