British Home Secretary David Blunkett told the BBC that a terror attack in Britain is inevitable. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)

Security measures alone were not sufficient to stop the threat, he said. Asked if such an attack was a question of “when, not if”, Blunkett told BBC television: “Yes, it’s the view that’s been expressed by the head of the (home) security service”, Eliza Manningham-Buller.

Blunkett said that a suicide attack was “the most likely” scenario in Britain, which has been a staunch supporter of the US in its so-called war on terror.

Blunkett told the BBC that Prime Minister Tony Blair “and I have confirmed that whatever we do - and we are doing everything we can - we can’t guarantee and nor should we pretend to that we can protect ourselves forever by security alone.

”But we can do a damn good job if we enable the security services to be able to apprehend people before rather than after they have committed the act,“ Blunkett said, adding: ”In this country the threat is extremely real.”