Simon Israel
MI5: 7/7 ended scepticism about terrorist threat
Ten years on, the head of MI5 says 7/7 delivered a step change “in the nation’s counter terrorism defences”.
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Did MI5 know about child abuse but fail to act?
A former army intelligence officer says he alerted MI5 to abuse at Kincora boys’ home, but was told to stop digging. It is not the first time MI5 has been accused of covering up child abuse.
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MI5, the Home Office, and child abuse cover-up allegations
As the IPCC announces it is looking into claims detectives covered up child abuse by politicians and police officers, MI5 faces questions over what it knew and whether it tried to suppress evidence.
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Mohammed Emwazi: MI5 tried to put words in my mouth
In a recording from 2009, Mohammed Emwazi – aka Jihadi John – describes how he was questioned by MI5 after being refused entry to Tanzania and tells how he felt his interrogator was threatening him.
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Simon Israel
MI5 chief warns serious terror threat to continue ‘for some time’
Wednesday’s attack in Paris is a “terrible reminder” of Islamist extremists’ agenda of harming the west, the head of MI5 warns, suggesting that the threat was “unlikely to abate significantly for some time”.
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Simon Israel
No state immunity for Jack Straw, MI5 and MI6 in rendition case
The government suffers a significant defeat in attempts to avoid a trial over allegations of complicity in the imprisonment, rendition and torture of a Libyan couple in 2004.
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Begg: ‘MI5 gave me the green light to go to Syria’
Exclusive: Moazzam Begg tells Channel 4 News that MI5 gave him the green light to go to Syria. So why was he charged with terror offences and locked up for seven months? Darshna Soni reports.
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MI5 chief: Snowden leaks ‘hurt UK’s fight against terrorism’
The head of MI5 condemns the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, saying his revelations endanger the ability to protect the country from terrorism.
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Olympics not an easy target, says MI5 boss
In an assessment of the security threat facing the UK, MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans predicts a successful and memorable London Olympics but expresses growing concern about Iran.
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MI5 archive shows 4,000 Britons fought Franco
Documents released by the National Archives show 4,000 Britons travelled to Spain in the 1930s to fight General Franco – and that their activities were of great interest to the UK security services.
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London bombings: MI5 officer tells of ‘profound regret’
A senior MI5 officer tells the July 7 inquest of the Service’s “profound regret” for failing to prevent the London bombings, which killed 52 innocent people, as Andy Davies reports.
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July 7 inquest: MI5 loses bid to give evidence in private
The Home Secretary and MI5 have lost their bid for intelligence officials to give evidence to the July 7 inquests behind closed doors.
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Torture claims: no prosecution for MI5 officer
An MI5 officer will not be prosecuted over claims he was complicit in the torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, Simon Israel discovers.
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London bombings: coroner rejects MI5 secret sessions
The London bombings inquest coroner rules MI5 intelligence cannot be heard in closed sessions. Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies says the government may invoke special powers to replace inquests.
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MI5 chief: terrorists still want to attack UK
There are hundreds of new leads every month in the fight against Islamist terrorism, Simon Israel hears from the head of the UK’s security services, Jonathan Evans.
