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• Video: Pakistani students fight to clear their names

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Pakistani students freed without charge after anti-terrorist raids last year tell Declan Walsh their lives have been ruined Declan Walsh
  2 days ago

• Interviews with Pakistani students: I figured this was all a big mistake

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  When men in combat uniforms grabbed Rizwan Sharif outside a Liverpool university last April, pointing a gun at his head, the Pakistani student thought he was being attacked by terrorists. "I started to recite the Kalima, a prayer that Muslims say before they die," he said. But Sharif was the suspected terrorist, and ...
  3 days ago

• Students fight to clear their names

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Students freed without charge say lives are ruined • Eight forced to leave UK while two attempt to stay A group of Pakistani students arrested but not charged after anti-terrorist raids last April are fighting to clear their names after MI5 claims that they belong to al-Qaida or are a threat to national ...
  3 days ago

• Northern Ireland justice minister must insist MI5 shares intelligence

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Alliance party leader David Ford says lessons must be learned from Omagh bombing A Northern Ireland justice minister must insist that MI5 share all intelligence on republican dissidents with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, according to the man widely tipped to take over that department. David Ford, the ...
  1 week ago

• Britain’s Role in Pakistan Torture: The Human Rights Watch Report

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 570
  Long-time EA readers will know that I have been none-too-happy with the evasions of the British Government over torture in the War on Terror, criticising Foreign Secretary David Miliband for using deceptions as well as court action to prevent the truth from emerging. This week Human Rights Watch brought out a bit ...
  1 week ago

• History of MI5

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 130
  The Authorised History of MI5, by Christopher Andrew:This massive compilation from MI5’s files holds much for those curious to know how the nation’s counter-spy ’spooks’ really operate.Yes, they do tap telephones, intercept letters, eavesdrop on radio communications and did ‘bug and burgle their way across ...
  1 week ago

• Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Al-Qaeda terrorists are exploiting loose visa and immigration rules to enter Britain, the security services fear.
  1 week ago

• Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

  
  Spy vs Spy — Authority: 428
  wired.com An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of ...
  1 week ago

• Intelligence agency GCHQ uses Xbox Live to attract new recruits

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  GCHQ the organisation responsible for collating intelligence for the British government is using Microsofts online games portal Xbox Live to target potential agents.
  1 week ago

• GCHQ recruiting via Xbox Live

  
  GAMER.BLORGE — Authority: 478
  Have you ever fancied yourself as James Bond? Of course you have, we all have. But there’s no need to play the mostly shoddy movie-to-game adaptations in order to fulfill the dream because the British intelligence services are now recruiting via video ads delivered on Xbox Live. But not PSN, strangely.GCHQ ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bribery Bill 2009 clause 12 - some Secret Intelligence Service MI6 or Security Service MI5 exemptions, but why should Local Authority Trading Standards etc. ever be allowed to bribe anyone ?

  
  Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk — Authority: 402
  Another bit of proposed legislation, which will hopefully be lost due to the forthcoming General Election, is the flawed Bribery Bill 2009 For some reason it has been introduced by Jack Straws Ministry of (In)Justice in the House of Lords. Note that there are no provisions to strengthen the legislation against ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK intelligence organisation places ads on Xbox Live

  
  Aeropause Games — Authority: 580
  And I thought that the average Xbox Live gamer and intelligence were diametrically opposed. UK intelligence agency GCHQ (it doesn’t appear to stand for anything, but I welcome your guesses) has been putting adverts, like the one pictured, on the Xbox Live dashboard ( the Guardian reports ). GCHQ answers to David ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case by Andy Worthington

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 147
  Those of us who have been aware that the principles of open justice in the UK are being threatened in an unprecedented manner have, to date, focused largely on the use of secret evidence in cases related to terrorism — widely ignored by the general public, and by much of the media — and on the use of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britain was aware of CIA’s barbaric torture techniques

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Nov. 20 (ANI): Britain was aware about the CIA’s barbaric torture techniques on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, a former Gitmo detainee has claimed.Secret reports exchanged between MI5 and the CIA in 2002 clearly state that the American security services were using torture practices, which included ...
  2 weeks ago

• Judge allows secret services to hide evidence in civil lawsuits

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Ruling prompted by UK Guantánamo torture cases • Lawyers decry attack on basic principle of law MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today. In a move that has widespread implications for open ...
  2 weeks ago

• MI5 and MI6 given go ahead for secret hearings into abuse

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  MI5 and MI6 have been given permission to hold hearings behind closed doors into their alleged complicity in the treatment of seven former detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
  2 weeks ago

• Security agencies can withhold secret government information in civil cases

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Court ruling with widespread implications for open justice condemned by lawyer as outrage MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today. In a move that has widespread implications for open justice, Mr Justice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ex-MI5 agent in memoirs battle sues newspaper for naming him

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor report: A former MI5 secret agent is suing the London Evening Standard for revealing his name, his lawyers say, in an attempt to extend Britain’s privacy laws to cover the identity of intelligence officers. The agent is also threatening the Guardian with a high court ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ex-MI5 agent sues Evening Standard

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Lawyers for undercover agent in war on terrorism threaten Guardian with injunction though his name circulates online A former MI5 secret agent is suing the London Evening Standard for revealing his name, his lawyers say, in an attempt to extend Britains privacy laws to cover the identity of intelligence officers. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Queen could better manage security of personal information than civil servants are

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 130
  Information in the health care sector, voter information are being either stolen or misplaced on a regular basis. Hundreds of incidents are occurring.
  2 weeks ago

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