British Prime Minister says UK must help Nigeria defeat Insurgency

David Cameron has warned the UK that he crisis in Nigeria, Iraq and Somalia must not be dismissed as "nothing to do with us" as the same Islamic jihadists are also planning to attack the UK.

The prime minister said the terrorist insurgence in Iraq, as well as related problems in Somalia, Nigeria and Mali, would "come back and hit Britain at home" if they did not help stabilise these regimes.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Cameron said the "hard attack" of direct intervention by the west was not the only option as that could create its own problems.

Setting out his argument after the Labour leader, Ed Miliband's question, the sagacious Prime minister said:

"I'd 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 that won't affect us – it will."

"The people in that regime, as well as trying to take territory, are also planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom. So the right answer is to be long term, hard-headed, patient and intelligent with the interventions that we make, and the most important intervention of all is to make sure that these governments are fully representative of the people who live in their countries, that they close down the ungoverned space, and they remove the support for the extremists.

"If we do that, not just in Syria, but we have to help in Iraq, in Somalia, in Nigeria, in Mali, because these problems will come back and hit us at home if we don't."

Source: The Guardian UK