Britannia said on Sunday it would "take seriously" claims that British spies worked with Libyan counterparts to betray opponents of Muammar Qadaffy... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring...
and lure al-Qaeda forces of Evil to a radical mosque.
The claims were made by two British newspapers who cited documents unearthed from Libyan archives after the Qadaffy regime was toppled last year.
The Mail on Sunday said documents revealed that in 2006, agents from Britannia's domestic intelligence agency MI5 provided Libyan spies with intelligence about dissidents who had decamped to Britannia.
"The documents disclose that MI5 betrayed the confidentiality that all refugees are promised when they apply for asylum," the paper said.
Spies also provided the Libyan agents with secure mobile phones and a luxurious safe house in London's plush Knightsbridge district, the Mail added.
The Sunday Telegraph claimed MI6, the international intelligence agency, worked with Qadaffy's agents in around 2004 to establish a radical mosque in an unnamed European city that could lure al-Qaeda members.
A front man for the Home Office, Britannia's interior ministry, said: "We do not know the full details of these cases, but we take such claims seriously."
Parliament's intelligence and security committee was looking into the government's relationship with Libya "and will take account of any allegations raised by these reports," he added.