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The blonde who captivated Cairo: Glamorous Nazi spy had romantic affairs with two British secret agents

8 March 2010

Daily Mail, 8 March 2010: A glamorous Nazi spy became amorously entangled with two British secret agents in wartime Cairo, previously classified files show. Sophie Kukralova – codenamed R 37 49 by her German bosses – developed a ‘most undesirable familiarity’ with the two intelligence officers. One already married agent offered to leave his wife [...]

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Operation Dib-dib-dib: how Nazis tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts

8 March 2010

The Indendepent, 8 March 2010: Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, responded enthusiastically to a Nazi charm offensive aimed at aligning his movement with the Hitler Youth in the run-up to the Second World War, according to secret MI5 documents. The colonial warrior, whose best-selling military training manuals started the Scouting phenomenon, was [...]

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The spy who loved me: Charlotte Philby returns to Moscow in search of her grandfather Kim Philby

8 March 2010

The Indepdent, 6 March 2010: . . . As well as being my grandfather – whom I remember from childhood trips to Russia as a funny old man with a beaming smile, who dressed almost exclusively in white vests and braces – Kim Philby, to this day, remains one of the most significant double agents [...]

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Was Michael Foot a national treasure or the KGB’s useful idiot?

8 March 2010

Daily Telegraph, 5 March 2010: . . . . The obituaries mentioned that, in 1995, Michael Foot won libel damages against The Sunday Times, for saying he had been an agent of the KGB during the Cold War. These accusations came from Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB officer who defected from the Soviet Union to Britain [...]

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Mystery of alleged MI6 traitor’s data theft

5 March 2010

The Register, UK, 5 March 2010: Next week, a 25-year-old man will appear at the drab Magistrates’ court in Westminster’s Horseferry Road to answer allegations he tried to sell Top Secret MI6 files to a foreign intelligence agency for £900,000. Daniel Houghton, who has joint British and Dutch citizenship, is accused of walking out of [...]

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Britain’s Islamic Republic

5 March 2010

Channel 4, UK, 1 March 2010: Dispatches investigates a fundamentalist Islamic group headquartered in Britain, and its claims to have placed its ‘brothers’ in positions of political power here. Using undercover recordings, investigative journalist Andrew Gilligan reveals the group’s ambitions to create a worldwide ‘Islamic social and political order,’ and the concerns of a mainstream [...]

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Spycatchers trap MI6 man ‘trying to sell secrets’

4 March 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 March 2010: Daniel Houghton, 25, was caught in a sting operation after allegedly approaching a foreign intelligence agency offering to sell them information he had collected while working for the Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6. The files, which belonged to the domestic security service MI5, allegedly related to the capabilities of [...]

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British Airways worker held on suspicion of terrorist fundrasing

3 March 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 March 2010: A British Airways worker has been arrested on suspicion of raising funds for a terrorist attack. The British man, thought to be from an Asian background and aged 30, was held after counter-terrorism officers swooped on the call centre where he worked in Newcastle.
The alleged plot to raise funds [...]

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Former British spy arrested for selling secrets

3 March 2010

AP, 3 March 2010: A former MI6 spy stole top secret files on intelligence gathering techniques and offered to sell them for 2 million pounds ($2.9 million) to an unspecified foreign government, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Prosecutor Piers Arnold told a London court that Daniel Houghton, 25, is alleged to have attempted to sell the [...]

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Extremist Muslims have ‘wormed their way into Labour Party’ UK minister warns

1 March 2010

Daily Mail, 1 March 10: A fundamentalist group that wants to turn Britain into an Islamic republic has successfully infiltrated the Labour Party, a minister said yesterday. Jim Fitzpatrick named the Islamic Forum of Europe as a group trying to win power by secretly taking control of local Labour organisations. . . . .
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Two hundred terror arrests made last year in UK

25 February 2010

The Independent, 25 Feb 10: A total of 201 people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism last year, Home Office figures showed today. Of those, 66 were eventually charged, 17 under terror laws. In the year ending September 2009 there were 200,444 people stopped and searched under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, down [...]

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Britain Is New Hamas Hub

24 February 2010

Arutz Sheva, 23 Feb 10: In the last 10 years, London has become the primary worldwide bastion of Hamas, according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the memory of fallen Israeli Intelligence Community agents. . . . The findings say London has become the epicenter of Hamas’ political, legal, [...]

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Exposed, the ‘Blackburn Resistance’: Gang ‘filmed preparations for terror’

24 February 2010

Daily Mail, 24 Feb 10: Brandishing machetes and guns, the young men pose for the video camera. The three British Muslims filmed themselves as they prepared for a terrorist attack, a court was told yesterday. They also recorded themselves crawling on their bellies through piles of leaves in a town centre park for a military-style [...]

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Generation Jihad, Episode 2

22 February 2010

BBC Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born. (See also Episode 1)

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Young British Muslim ex-prisoners unrepentant on views

8 February 2010

BBC, 8 Feb 10: Two young British Muslims who have served short prison sentences for terrorism offences have spoken frankly about their views to a new BBC documentary investigation into the extent of the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK. The views of Rizwan Ditta and Bilal Mohammed, two young Muslims born and brought up [...]

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Special Forces chief battles to stop book revealing details of operations in Iraq

8 February 2010

Times of London, 8 Feb 10: The head of Britain’s special forces has been trying to stop the publication of a book by a senior BBC journalist which describes in “tactical detail” operations carried out by the SAS in Iraq from 2003 to 2009. The major-general, who cannot be identified for security reasons, is concerned [...]

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The West’s military infrastructure is at growing risk from sophisticated hackers

8 February 2010

The Independent, 6 Feb 10: Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned. . . . US and British officials say what is at stake goes far beyond attempted state censorship, with military infrastructure and financial [...]

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U.K. Firm Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Boeing 747 Aircraft to Iran

5 February 2010

DOJ, 5 Feb 10: Balli Aviation Ltd., a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Balli Group PLC, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a two-count criminal information in connection with its illegal export of commercial Boeing 747 aircraft from the United States to Iran, announced David Kris, Assistant [...]

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Former ‘mole-hunter’ Stephen De Mowbray speaks out

26 January 2010

BBC, 26 Jan 10: For 30 years Stephen De Mowbray has maintained a self-imposed silence on a career that once took him to the heart of one of British intelligence’s most controversial episodes. In 1979 he quit his job with the Secret Service because he believed officials had failed to take seriously the claim that [...]

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Mohamed Ali Harrath, Islamic TV chief, is held over terror claims

26 January 2010

Times of London, 26 Jan 10: The head of the Islam Channel, Britain’s most popular Muslim television station, has been arrested in South Africa and faces deportation to Tunisia over terrorism allegations. The Times disclosed more than a year ago that Mohamed Ali Harrath, a Scotland Yard adviser against Islamic extremism, was wanted by Interpol [...]

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Bomb Plot Suspect Tied To Alleged U.K. Terrorists

25 January 2010

NPR, 25 Jan 10: British and U.S. intelligence authorities have linked the young Nigerian at the center of the alleged attack on Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to two men accused of ties to major terrorist plots in the United Kingdom, NPR has learned. British and U.S. officials have been feverishly tracking down leads [...]

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UK students recruited for Somali jihad

25 January 2010

Times of London, 24 Jan 10: STUDENTS from some of Britain’s top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda. Almost a dozen young British Muslims, including a female medical researcher, are said recently to have joined Al-Shabaab, an extremist rebel organisation blamed for hundreds of deaths in the [...]

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Indian hijack plot caused new UK terror alert

25 January 2010

Times of London, 24 Jan 10: 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. MI5 was told by the Indian authorities early last week about a suspected plot by militants linked to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan to hijack [...]

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Terrorist threat level raised to ’severe’ in UK

22 January 2010

Times of London, 22 Jan 10: Britain’s terrorist threat level was raised tonight from “substantial” to “severe” – meaning that counter-terrorism agencies believe an attack is “highly likely”. The measure was approved at a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee and announced by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary. The Times understands that the decision [...]

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The thin blue line of jihad

22 January 2010

Spectator, 21 Jan 10: The Telegraph reports that the National Association of Muslim Police has attacked government policy on countering Islamic extremism. . . . This is an extremely alarming development.
First, a general point. The very idea that police officers form themselves into interest groups of any stripe whatever should be anathema to the ethic [...]

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The truth about the Islamic Human Rights Commission, recommended by Britain’s Muslim Police

22 January 2010
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Daily Telegraph, 21 Jan 10: As I noted earlier, the National Association of Muslim Police thinks British Muslims should report crimes to the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). It sounds a lovely organisation, doesn’t it? Human Rights. Who could be against that? The only problem, as so often with Islamic groups, is that it doesn’t do [...]

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Soviet spy map reveals Norfolk secrets

21 January 2010

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, 21 Jan 10: Even for people who live in Norfolk the pronunciation of names such as Happisburgh, Costessey and Wymondham can prove tricky. However, we are left to wonder if Russian cartographers, given the task of translating the place names for a map of the county produced during the Cold War [...]

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Flights from Yemen to UK banned as Brown unveils new anti-terror crackdown

20 January 2010

Daily Mail, 20 Jan 10: Flights from Yemen to the UK have been banned in a new crackdown aimed at increasing border security, Gordon Brown announced today. Two new terror watch lists will also be created as part of the package to counter terrorism following the failed Christmas Day bomb plot. The Prime Minister, who [...]

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Al-Qaeda threat: Britain worst in western world

19 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 15 Jan 10: Al-Qaeda has successfully restructured its global network and now has the capability to carry out a wide range of terror attacks against Western targets, according to a detailed U.S. intelligence assessment that has been conducted in the wake of the failed Christmas Day Detroit bomb plot. . . . .
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Invasion and the body snatchers

13 January 2010

Times of London, 14 Jan 10: In a new book (coming 18 January), an author reveals for the first time secrets of one of the most audacious acts of wartime deception — how a British corpse was dropped into the sea with a new identity to fool Hitler about Allied invasion plans . . .
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Britain Moves to Ban Islamic Group

13 January 2010

New York Times, 12 Jan 10: Britain said Tuesday it was outlawing a radical Islamic group that had incited outrage by planning a protest march through the streets of a town made famous for its somber ceremonies honoring British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Alan Johnson, the British home secretary, said the move criminalizing membership [...]

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British Radicalization Studies

7 January 2010

Wall Street Journal, 7 Jan 10: Shortly after he tried to bring down flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab became the fourth former head of a British university Islamic Society (ISOC) to have been charged with a serious terrorism offense. This is only the tip of the problem. Shaming as it [...]

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Plane bomb suspect joined al Qaeda in London: Yemen

7 January 2010

Reuters, 7 Jan 10: A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas Day was recruited by al Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric in Yemen, a senior Yemeni official said on Thursday . . .

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Anjem Choudary: profile

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 4 Jan 10: Anjem Choudary’s latest insult to the families of British service personnel killed in Afghanistan is in keeping with a career of controversial attacks on military operations in the country. In March last year, the 42-year-old leader of the Islamic group, Islam4UK, branded British soldiers returning from Afghanistan as “cowards” and [...]

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Revealed: the true extent of Islamic radical influence at University College London

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 Jan 10: The true picture of Islamic radicalism preached at the British university attended by Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab can be revealed today.
The Sunday Telegraph can disclose new details of radical Muslim speakers who have been invited to events organised by University College London’s Islamic society, the organisation headed [...]

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Al-Qaeda target British soldiers returning from Afghanistan

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 Jan 10: British-based Islamist radicals are targeting Army soldiers – especially snipers – returning from fighting in southern Afghanistan, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
In one case, a police armed response unit was called to the home of a sniper last September amid fears he was about to be murdered or [...]

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Detroit bomber’s mentor continues to influence British mosques and universities

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 2 Jan 10: Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric accused of inspiring the Detroit plane bomber, has been permitted to speak at a series of British mosques and universities, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has discovered.
Al-Awlaki has been accused by US counter terrorism officials and the Yemeni government of being one of the driving [...]

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MI5 knew of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s UK extremist links

4 January 2010

Times of London, 3 Jan 10: The security services knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had “multiple communications” with Islamic extremists in Britain, it emerged this weekend.
Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was “reaching out” to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at University College London.
Officials said [...]

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British universities ‘a hotbed of Islamic radicalisation’

4 January 2010

Strait Times, 2 Jan 10: British universities, especially those in London, are becoming a hotbed of Islamic radicalisation, the Times reported yesterday.
Quoting security sources, the newspaper said there was concern that the picture emerging of the undergraduate years of the Nigerian suspect in the Christmas Day airline bomb plot suggested that he was recruited by [...]

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To our eternal shame, Britain is STILL a hub for Islamic terror

29 December 2009

Daily Mail/Melanie Phillips, 28 Dec 09 (Melanie Phillips is the author of Londonistan)
So here we go again. Another international Islamic terrorist plot – and yet another British connection.
The attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an American plane was averted only by luck and courage.
The incident obviously raises alarming questions about gross lapses in [...]

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Airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was barred from Britain

29 December 2009

Times of London, 27 Dec 09: THE son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight over America, was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, graduated from a university in London last year but his visa request was refused in May when he [...]

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‘Sleeper cell plotter’ revealed in UK court papers

23 December 2009

BBC, 22 Dec 09: The High Court has re-imposed a control order on a previously unknown terrorism suspect who is alleged to be part of a suicide bomb “sleeper cell” in the UK.
The man, known only as AM, is alleged to have been an associate of the foiled 2006 plane bomb plotters, even though he [...]

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Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London

21 December 2009

Times of London, 20 Dec 09: Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital.
In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming to London.”
The detective said companies should anticipate a [...]

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Former Spy Tries to Expand Newspaper Holdings in Britain

18 December 2009

New York Times, 18 Dec 09: The former Soviet spy Aleksandr Y. Lebedev is seeking to expand his British media empire by adding The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers, less than a year after buying a London daily tabloid.
Independent News & Media, the publisher of the two struggling papers, said Friday that it [...]

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Islamists in the UK Government

16 December 2009

Islamist Watch/David Rusin, 16 Dec 09: Is there any degree of radicalism that disqualifies someone from holding a sensitive government post in the UK? Probably. But it would be difficult to tell based on two recent stories.
First, Treasury official Azad Ali has begun advising the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on combating Islamic extremism. Apparently his suspension [...]

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UK man jailed for terrorism offences

15 December 2009

Derby Evening Telegraph, UK, 15 Dec 09: A Derby man has been found guilty of five terrorism offences. Albanian-born Krenar Lusha was arrested at his Normanton home in August last year.
The 30-year-old pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of possessing articles which gave rise to a reasonable suspicion that they were for a terror-related purpose. [...]

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Terror-link duo caught filming potential targets, say police

15 December 2009

Wales Online, 15 Dec 09: A suspected al Qaida-inspired cell were caught red-handed filming potential terrorist targets, police said today.
Senior officers said two Algerian brothers may have been employed to prepare the ground for an atrocity in London or at major regional shopping centres.
City of London Police released chilling footage recorded on one man’s Nokia [...]

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Jihadist suspects cleared to work as guards

14 December 2009

Times of London, 13 Dec 09: Ten members of a suspected Islamist terror cell, said by MI5 to be plotting to blow up a shopping centre and a nightclub in Manchester, had been granted permission by the Home Office to work as security guards in Britain.
The Pakistani students — who were never charged for [...]

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British Muslim convicted of transatlantic plane terror plot

9 December 2009

Times of London, 9 Dec 09: Three friends of the leader of the airline bomb plot were convicted today of terrorist offences connected to the plan to commit mass murder in the skies.
Adam Khatib, 22, was found guilty of conspiring with Abdulla Ahmed Ali to detonate suicide bombs onboard transatlantic airliners flying from London to [...]

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UK: Extremism strategy ‘lacks clarity’, minister admits

8 December 2009

BBC, 8 Dec 09: The government’s flagship strategy to stop young people becoming terrorists has suffered from a “lack of clarity”, the communities secretary has said. John Denham used a speech to defend the Prevent strategy – but also conceded that some parts of it must change.
The strategy has been dogged by controversy over its [...]

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