ISIL terrorists have aspirations to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks on targets in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the British security minister said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

Ben Wallace also said British authorities feared that as the militant group was driven out of strongholds in the Middle East such as the Iraqi city of Mosul, Britons fighting for the group would return home and pose a growing domestic threat.

“The ambition of ISIL or Daesh is definitely mass-casualty attacks,” Wallace told the Sunday Times newspaper.

“They have no moral objection to using chemical weapons against populations and if they could, they would in this country. The casualty figures that could be involved would be everybody’s worst fear.”

The report said no specific chemical plot had been identified but security services had been carrying out exercises to prepare for the possibility.

Source: Reuters