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I was intrigued that your columnist Neil Young drew on the statement by former Security Service director-general Dame Stella Rimington to justify his fear of Britain becoming a creeping police state. It isn't a coincidence that in the early 1990s the Conservative government, presumably acting on her advice, gave asylum to Islamic militants, including radical clerics who preached jihad, or holy war, against non-Muslims.
The Soviet Union had disintegrated, there was a dramatically changed relationship with Russian intelligence services, and the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire that led to the Good Friday Agreement. In other words, our spooks were looking for new things to justify their salaries, and letting people linked to overseas terrorist groups set up shop in London gave MI5 fresh targets to tap, bug and keep under surveillance, then trade the intelligence with other countries.See the full content of this document
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Intelligence Measures Keep Us Safe
Some of these "asylum seekers" were members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), former mujahuddin fighters who had returned from the war in Afghan...
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