Police Spied on British Prime Minister When He Was a Young ‘Radical’ Lawyer, Inquiry Hears
Britain’s Undercover Policing Inquiry hears police spied on now-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s work when he was a lawyer in the 1990s.
Britain’s Undercover Policing Inquiry hears police spied on now-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s work when he was a lawyer in the 1990s.
Of the counter-terror work by Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5, three-quarters are “Islamic extremist”, its director said in a briefing.
Undercover Police Inquiry live feed abruptly cut after officer spoke about role of the UK’s spy agency, MI5, in smearing political activists.
Hundreds of survivors of the Islamist terror attack on the Manchester Arena have launched a lawsuit against the MI5 intelligence agency.
Northern Ireland´s top police officer apologized Thursday for what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach.
The UK’s domestic security service, MI5, has been found to have illegally retained private data of citizens for nearly half a decade.
Britain’s spy agencies have reportedly loosened requirements surrounding nationality in order to increase diversity within their forces.
The UK is preparing for what will be the largest security operation in the history of the country for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
The UK’s intelligence services warned spies to check their white privilege in a document published amid concerns over a war in Europe.
Police detectives were aware of the Machester Arena bomber’s ties to terrorism three years before the 2017 attack that left 22 dead.
Malik Faisal Akram was reportedly referred to Britain’s anti-terrorism Prevent programme twice, with the latest referral coming in 2019.
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Two men have been arrested in the United Kingdom in relation to the recent hostage attack on a Synagogue in Texas.
Malik Faisal Akram was known to British spy agency MI5 but had been judged as no longer posing a threat to the public in 2020, reports claim.
The British security agency MI5 has claimed that a spy for Communist China has managed to infiltrate the UK parliament.
MI5 has admitted that Salman Abedi should have been put on a “ports action list” to alert police of his return from Libya four days before he killed 22 people on May 22nd, 2017, at the Manchester Arena in an Islamist suicide bombing.
UK spy agencies have inked a billion-dollar deal with Amazon to host classified information on the tech giant’s cloud computing apparatus.
A disproportionate focus on the far-right has taken away the necessary resources from confronting Islamist extremists in the UK’s battle against terrorism, a report has claimed. A report from the Henry Jackson Society claimed that political correctness has resulted in
The head of MI5, Ken McCallum warned that Britain may face a 9/11-style attack in the wake of President Biden’s failures in Afghanistan.
The strategic failure by Joe Biden to withdraw from Afghanistan in an orderly fashion and the subsequent collapse of the expensively groomed Afghan state will give a confidence shot to “lone wolf” terrorists in the West, the director-general of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency has said.
The head of MI5 has recounted the view from inside MI5 as 9/11 unfolded, including colleagues recognising the work of Osama Bin Laden.
An inquest jury has ruled that the Streatham terror attack could have been prevented had convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman had been recalled to prison after undercover officers had become suspicious when he bought items for making his fake suicide belt.
British intelligence services have reportedly determined that UK jihadis have travelled to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.
British spy chiefs fear Taliban triumph in Afghanistan will create a “victory narrative” for radical Islam and inspire terrorist attacks in the West.
MI5 has recorded 10,000 instances of foreign spies from hostile foreign powers making “disguised approaches” to British citizens.
An inquest has found that London Bridge terror attack victims Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were unlawfully killed and that failures by probation services, police, and the British domestic intelligence agency MI5 contributed to their deaths.
The British government’s anti-radicalisation programme is only monitoring two per cent of all suspected terrorists flagged with security services, Home Office data has revealed.
New MI5 director-general Ken McCallum has confirmed that Islamist jihadists remain by far the biggest terror threat in Britain — but the mainstream media has chosen to hype his remarks on the comparatively minor threat from the far-right instead.
Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service (MI5), will have a unit dedicated to investigating far-leftists and anarchists plotting terror attacks in the United Kingdom.
Salman Abedi repeatedly came to the attention of the security services but officers failed to connect the dots, leaving him free to kill 22.
An inquest into the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack found that MI5 knew that jihadist Salman Abedi, the son of Libyan refugees, had visited an Islamist extremist in prison twice, but did not reopen their investigation into him.
The Muslim Council of Britain has claimed that British media has placed a “disproportionate focus” on Islamic terrorist attacks.
The UK Govt has admitted that it is aware of 43,000 terrorist suspects– nearly double the number previously revealed by security services.
The former director-general of MI5 said that while he backs the emergency legislation to prevent the automatic release of terrorists, he said that those convicted of serious terror-related crimes should serve their “whole life” behind bars. The Terrorist Offenders (Restriction
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is arguing for increased surveillance measures in the United Kingdom, including facial recognition, to combat crime and terrorism, however, critics fear the increased capabilities will negatively impact civil liberties. Dame Cressida Dick,
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned British voters that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wants to “destroy” the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and that his party wants to abolish the country’s domestic intelligence agency.
The British security services have stepped up their surveillance of extremist suspects in the wake of the death of Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, in an effort to catch would-be revenge attacks.
Christopher Steele distributed his unverified “pee dossier” to the top levels of British intelligence months before Trump ever became aware of it.
Radical Islamic terrorism remains the most acute security threat to the United Kingdom, according to the Director-General of MI5.
The number of far-right terror cases the authorities are faced with is “absolutely dwarfed” by the number of cases related to radical Islam, according to Britain’s Security Service, better known as MI5.