AFP/ GETTY Calls are growing for the state to identify all military age British men returning from Syria

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As ISIS is obliterated in strongholds in Syria and Iraq security forces have expressed fears the militants will return to Britain hell bent on carrying out terror attacks. British special forces are currently hunting 200 terrorists, with orders to “kill or capture” – and the list is understood to contain at least 12 bomb-makers who studied electronics at British universities. One senior source warned returning jihadis presented the greatest urban terror threat EVER faced by the UK.

Now calls are growing for the state to identify all military age British men returning from Syria so members of the public can act as the eyes and ears of the security services. MI5 fear these British nationals fighting alongside ISIS, and skilled in guerrilla warfare, will attempt to establish terror cells on their return. Mike Hookem UKIP MEP and defence spokesman demanded the public be protected from trained terrorists roaming free on British streets.

It is critical that measures are put in place to protect the British public from trained terrorists being allowed to freely operate in the UK and if the evidence is there, these people should be named and shamed Mike Hookem

He told Express.co.uk: “Anyone who it can be proved to have taken part in terrorism abroad must have the full weight of the law brought to bear upon them. “It is critical that measures are put in place to protect the British public from trained terrorists being allowed to freely operate in the UK and if the evidence is there, these people should be named and shamed. “We know from the past that ISIS have used the migrant routes into Europe to import their evil brand of terrorism and every effort must be made to protect the UK from a Paris or Brussels style attack.”

PA UKIP MEP Mike Hookem said British jihadis returning to the UK should be named and shamed

It is thought as many as 800 British nationals have travelled to Syria and Iraq to support ISIS, with around 400 thought to have returned to the UK. Previously MPs called for British jihadists to be stripped of their citizenship. George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, said jihadists fighting overseas should lose their British passports and be barred from returning to the UK in 2014. SAS operatives currently working in Syria are believed to be hunting British jihadist Sally Jones, also known as Sakinah Hussain, who left the UK in 2013 to join the fighting.

PA ISIS is being obliterated in strongholds in Syria and Iraq

TWITTER SAS operatives currently working in Syria are believed to be hunting British jihadist Sally Jones

A senior defence source told The Sunday Times: “A kill list has been drawn up containing the names of hundreds of very bad people. A lot of them are from the UK. The hunt is now on for British Islamists who have effectively gone off grid. “This is a multi-national special forces operation. The SAS have their own part of the plan and they will be going after British nationals. This is a kill-or-capture mission and it has already begun. “We do not have exact numbers of UK nationals in Iraq. The figures which have been in the press are just estimates. We know there are British people in Iraq, but we have no idea of their identities. “That’s the challenge we face. There is a lot of international co-operation because it’s regarded as a global problem.”

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