By Daily Mail. London Police officials were directed yesterday to wear plain clothes while off duty and not their uniforms, amid fresh fears of attack by in the city. Officers were also told not to disclose it to strangers in order to protect them and their families from a jihadi attack. It cam
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Police officials were directed yesterday to wear plain clothes while off duty and not their uniforms, amid fresh fears of attack by in the city.
Officers were also told not to disclose it to strangers in order to protect them and their families from a jihadi attack.
It came amid reports that an Armed Forces Day parade in south London had been targeted by ISIS.
They were plotting to explode a pressure cooker bomb - killing soldiers and civilians on the route, but failed after one of its leaders in Syria reportedly recruited an undercover investigator from the newspaper to carry it out.
A leading figure in ISIS, named Junaid Hussain, originally from Birmingham, told the investigator: 'It will be big. We will hit the kuffar (unbelievers) hard InshAllah. Hit their soldiers in their own land. InshAllah. Soldiers that served in Iraq and Afganistan will be present. Jump in the crowd and detonate the bomb.
'They think they can kill Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan then come back to the UK and be safe. We'll hit them hard InshAllah.'
The newspaper said the plot to bomb the parade in Merton, south west London, was aborted when police and security services were informed about it.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: 'The police, together with our security partners, remain alert to terrorist threats that may manifest here or where individuals overseas may seek to direct or inspire others to commit attacks in and against the UK.'
