Reuters, London, 17 August 2014 – Britain should use its military prowess to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq , Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday, saying they had to be stopped from creating “a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean”.
In his toughest comments yet on IS, an al Qaeda splinter group, Cameron said Britain needed to adopt a more robust stance against Islamic State to prevent it from one day launching an attack on British soil, a warning he first issued in June.
Britain has so far limited its role in Iraq to aid drops, surveillance and agreeing to transport military re-supplies to Kurdish forces. In addition, Britain’s trade envoy to Iraq has said SAS special forces are gathering intelligence there.
 “If we do not act to stem the onslaught of this exceptionally dangerous terrorist movement, it will only grow stronger until it can target us on the streets of Britain. We already know that it has the murderous intent,” Cameron wrote in an article for Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.