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LONDON (Reuters) – A former agent from the foreign intelligence service is due in court on Wednesday charged with stealing details of spying techniques and passing them on, police said.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has launched a furious attack on the coverage of the Binyam Mohamed case, criticising what he called the “baseless, groundless accusations” being spread in parts of the media.
BRITAIN and the US face a new al-Qaeda terror threat from so-called suicide body bombers with explosives surgically inserted inside them.
FEARS that Islamist terrorists plan to hijack an Indian passenger jet and crash it into a British city helped to prompt this weekend’s heightened terror alert.
Intelligence chiefs warned ministers that Britain would become a priority target for al-Qaida and that British Muslims would be radicalised if the country joined the US in invading Iraq, the government’s former top security adviser told the Chilcot inquiry today.
MI5’s commitment to countering Irish terrorism has more than doubled in the past nine months, with hundreds more officers now in Northern Ireland, The Times has learnt.
The “war on terrorism” is an unfortunate phrase that seems to imply there is a battlefield on which to fight.
