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| Beheading plotters 'had names, addresses' |
| 2007-02-01 |
| SUSPECTED Islamic extremists alleged to have been plotting an Iraq-style plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier had the names and addresses of serving troops, The Times reported today. Britain's defence ministry is urgently investigating how they got the information. "Such sensitive information about our personnel is kept under conditions of strict confidentiality, so we obviously want to discover how a list of names and home addresses was reportedly compiled," an unidentified defence official was quoted as saying. According to the newspaper, a priority in the inquiry will be to ensure that the information was not provided by anyone within the defence ministry. A spokeswoman for the ministry could not comment on the report because of the ongoing police investigation. She also declined to comment on reports that defence ministry officials had met on yesterday to consider whether revised security provisions were needed for Muslims serving in the British armed forces. Nine men were arrested on Wednesday in dawn raids by British police for allegedly plotting to kidnap and behead a young Muslim soldier, and post a video on the internet. Police were granted an extra week to question all of them by a magistrate - under British anti-terror laws, they can be held for up to 28 days without charge. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 a priority in the inquiry will be to ensure that the information was not provided by anyone within the defence ministry. Hmmm. To insure it was not provided... Rather than to insure if it was provided within DM, that whoever did it would be standing against the wall for a brief period of time, and that there would be no repeat. Sometimes, I'm a starting to entertain an idea that I am in some form of asylum, involuntarily. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-02-01 21:02 |