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Exposing Islam. (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
An Al Qaeda terrorist serving a life sentence for his part in planning a fertiliser bomb attack on mainland Britain is suing security services and the Government for up to £50,000 over claims he was tortured in Pakistan . Salahuddin Amin, 34, from Luton, Bedfordshire, has issued a High Court writ against MI5 chief Jonathan Evans, the incoming head of MI6 Sir John Sawers, the Home Office, the...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
On the Politics Show today Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd clarified his party’s position on the seizure of the assets of Sean Hughes and the previous comments by Northern Ireland Executive Ministers, SF’s Michelle Gildernew and Hughes’ “good friend” Conor Murphy. [John O’Dowd] “The concerns around the raid on Sean Hughes house is this. It was organised...
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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By Elham Asaad Buaras The Muslim News | 30 October 2009 The UK’s secret service (MI5) is being accused of perverting the course of justice by offering a 33 year-old terror suspect inducements to drop a law suite against agents who colluded in his torture. Rangzieb Ahmed , from Rochdale, says during his detention in Pakistan he had three of his fingernails ripped out by the Directorate for Inter-Services...
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BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
On this day in 1950, the British Intelligence Service MI5 were brought into the hunt for the missing atomic scientist Bruno Pontecorvo who has not been seen for about seven weeks. Professor Pontecorvo and his family arrived in Finland at the beginning of September but they later disappeared. There was speculation the family may had gone to the Soviet Union. The professor had recently left his post...
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I know it works for me. But, that's a whole 'nuther story. From Ace : Not just 'enhanced interrogation techniques' but apparently the hardcore old school stuff as well . (Jonathan) Evans, the director-general of MI5, said British lives had been saved as a direct result of intelligence received from overseas agencies in the years following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Speaking on Thursday...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Spy chief Jonathan Evans yesterday insisted Britain must keep working with countries who torture terror suspects in a bid to smash al-Qaeda.
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Jonathan Evans, Director-General of MI5. (Manchester Evening News/Reuters) From Times Online: The Director General of MI5 has issued a powerful defence of Britain's co-operation with intelligence agencies in America and other countries accused of the abuse and torture of detainees, saying they had stopped "many attacks" in the aftermath of the September 11 strikes. Speaking for the first...
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Views from the UK 2006 (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The Times : Reports on the speech by Director General of MI5, Jonathan Evans. Mr Evans has stated that after 9/11 MI5 needed information on Al Qaeda, thus took information that saved UK lives, this information was gained from abroad and the information was a matter of national security, how it was gotten in many respects after 9/11 was a secondary issue to the security of the state. Its easy looking...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's MI5 security service, under fire for alleged complicity in abuse of suspects overseas, has defended its foreign intelligence links, saying they stopped "many attacks" in the years after the September 11 2001 strike.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Independent.ie Sunday October 11 2009 The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Fein's Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer claimed today . An IRA informer was asked to place the bomb in the offices on Kevin Street in the summer of 1971, according to George Clarke, a retired Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch Detective Sergeant....
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Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
MI5 warned that bin Laden was planning attacks on morning of 9/11 MI5 warned the government that Osama bin Laden was planning an attack in the weeks leading up to September 11, including the morning itself, a new history of the Security Service discloses. Telegraph | Oct 5, 2009 By Duncan Gardham Newly published memos disclose an escalating [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
An authorized history of MI5 written by Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew is being released to mark the security service's 100th anniversary.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
BBC Controls on police informers in Northern Ireland are effective and comply with legislation, a report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary has found. The inquiry was launched following former Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan's 2007 report into the loyalist murder of north Belfast man Raymond McCord Jnr. Ms O'Loan's report said police colluded with the gang in several killings. MI5 has built a large...
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Black Horizon (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Published: 4:49PM BST 05 Oct 2009 Newly published memos disclose an escalating concern about the terrorist leader right up until the moment he launched his attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington killing nearly 3,000 people. But the files also reveal that MI5 discounted the threat from Islamic extremism just six years before...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
John Mooney The Sunday Times October 4, 2009 The Continuity IRA (CIRA) has split up over the organisation’s refusal to appoint a new leadership and to step up attacks against the security forces in Northern Ireland . The security services believe recent bomb attacks and the murder of a police officer in Armagh last March, for which the republican group claimed responsibility, were not sanctioned...
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