Search results for ‘MI5’
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Northern Ireland: MI5 raises terror threat level to ‘severe’
MI5 has raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland from “substantial” to “severe” – meaning an attack is now considered highly likely.
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Manchester Arena inquiry: MI5 missed chance to prevent attack
The MI5 chief has apologised over the failure to prevent the Manchester Arena attack – after the inquiry into the atrocity found the agency had failed to act on key intelligence received months earlier.
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MI5 knew about Manchester arena bomber’s support for ISIS before attack
Secret evidence showing just how much MI5 knew about the Manchester arena bomber Salman Abedi has been heard at the public inquiry into the atrocity.
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MI5 accuses ‘Chinese agent’ of trying to influence politicians
Today MI5 accused Chinese lawyer Christine Lee of attempting to covertly influence British politics to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Liverpool hospital taxi explosion: Man in attack ‘not known to MI5’
Our Home Affairs correspondent Andy Davies had the latest update on the incident.
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Different decisions could have stopped Manchester Arena attack, senior MI5 officer says
A senior MI5 officer has told the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing that different decisions could have stopped the atrocity from happening – although he said the judgment made not to put the attacker Salman Abedi under investigation had been “sensible” at the time.
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Fishmongers’ Hall: MI5 and police failures contributed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt’s deaths
Jack Merritt was 25 when he was stabbed to death in the London Bridge terror attack, and Saskia Jones just 23. An inquest jury declared they had been unlawfully killed and a series of damning failures by police and security agencies contributed to their deaths.
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MI5 ‘could not have prevented’ Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack, inquest hears
An MI5 officer has told the inquest into the 2019 Fishmongers Hall terror attack, the intelligence service could not have prevented the atrocity, in which two students were killed.
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Patel ‘livid’ about claim MI5 does not trust her
The Prime Minister has given his “full confidence” to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, describing claims that MI5 did not trust her with full security briefings as “baseless and wrong”
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London Bridge coroner criticises attacker’s family, but not police and MI5
It was an extraordinary inquest that heard about astonishing acts of bravery, many of them futile – as well as sickening acts of brutality.
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Liberty accuses MI5 and GCHQ of breaching human rights
A major legal challenge to the government’s widespread surveillance powers has begun in the High Court.
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MI5 accused of unlawful handling of surveillance data
MI5 has been accused of “extraordinary and persistent illegality” for holding on to data obtained from members of the public.
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MI5 “too slow” over Manchester bomber
Lessons were not learned from previous terror attacks and potential opportuntiies to prevent some of them were missed. That’s the damming verdict of an inquiry by a committee of MPs which found that MI5’s methods of monitoring suspects was not up to scratch and the system which regulates materials used for bomb making was “hopelessly…
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MI5 chief says scale of terror threat highest he has seen
The head of MI5 has described the scale and pace of the current terror threat as the highest he’s ever seen. In the first on-camera briefing to journalists in the agency’s history, Andrew Parker said attacks are now able to accelerate from plan to intent within days.
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MI5 review procedures for dealing with warnings after Manchester attack
MI5 is carrying out a review of its procedures after concerns over security and reported intelligence blunders surrounding the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi. In the campaign against terrorism it is one of the most difficult questions: when do the authorities act on the flood of information about potential extremists. We now know that members of…
