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/ 17 December 2010
Britain made "little progress" in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing "considerable time and resources" after the 7/7 London bombing.
Speculation is rife that al-Qaeda and its affiliates are planning ‘commando-style’ attacks on cities.
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/ 29 September 2010
The head of the British security service MI5 has warned that the United Kingdom faces a growing threat of terrorist attacks.
Former MI5 chief says attacks gave rise to new Muslim radicalism.
The murder of three soldiers by a renegade Afghan casts a shadow over the UK’s plans to train the local army before withdrawing its own troops.
British MPs want an inquiry into the detention
and interrogation of suspects abroad.
For more than a year British intelligence officers have been advocating and instigating contacts with Taliban commanders and their entourage.
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/ 15 December 2008
Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan.
Egyptian expert on radical Islamists, Dia Rashwan, says recent al-Qaeda propaganda footage from Iraq is old and cannot mask the crisis it is facing.
The United States is operating ”floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. Details of ships where detainees have been held and sites allegedly being used in countries across the world have been compiled as the debate over detention without trial intensifies on both sides of the Atlantic.