Russia Today: UK Prime Minister and German interior minister have warned on Wednesday that Islamist fighting in the Middle East is going to directly affect Europe as jihadists are going to carry out attack on the European soil too.

The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, said Wednesday that Islamist insurgents in Iraq were planning to attack Britain and that the world could not sit back and let militants do as they please in“ungoverned spaces.”

Cameron hit back at critics who have said western powers should leave Iraq and the Middle East to their own devises.

“I disagree with those people who think this is nothing to do with us and if they want to have some sort of extreme Islamist regime in the middle of Iraq it won’t affect us all. It will,” Cameron said during Prime Minister’s questions.

London has said it has ruled out any military intervention in Iraq, but it’s not clear whether Britain’s overstretched and underfunded military would be capable of deploying personnel there anyway, although the UK has sent an “operational liaison and reconnaissance team” to Baghdad. London has also pledged to crack down on Britons’ travelling to the region to fight in the insurgency.

“So the right answer is to be long term, hard headed, patient and intelligent with interventions that we make … because these problems will come back and hit us at home if we don’t. The estimates are now that this [ISIS’s rise in Iraq and Syria] is a greater threat to the UK than the return of jihadists from the Afghanistan or Pakistan region,” Cameron said.

Cameron said that an estimated 400 people from the UK have taken part in fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, although he admitted that as regards Iraq the UK government has considerably less information than about the situation in Syria.

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