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Britain Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned that the failed Detroit plane bombing showed that terrorism remains a very real global threat as the world enters a new year.The new year is starting as the last began -- with a climate of fear, he wrote in the UK national website, saying the failed bombing had exposed an evolving terrorist threat and highlighted a major new base for terrorism.He said that Yemen has been emerged as the new extremists stronghold and called upon the world leaders to urgently tighten security at airports and on aircrafts.The failed attack in Detroit on Christmas Day reminds us of a deeper reality: that almost 10 years after September 11th international terrorism is still a very real threat, he added.The Detroit attack, which has led to a major review of security procedures and the coordination of airline and other watch-lists, had thrown the spotlight onto the threat posed by militants based in Yemen, he said.Brown stressed that Britain could not rely only on a fortress Britain strategy -- but must take the fight to where extremists are based, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and all around the world.
