People who suspect their neighbours may be extremists should inform the security services because “the enemy is everywhere”, the former head of MI5 has said.
Dame Stella Rimington invoked the wartime spirit as she said the public had a duty to act as the “eyes and ears” of the security services in combating terrorists.
She made the plea as she warned that MI5 could not be expected to spot every danger and that further attacks were likely unless Britain wanted a “Stasi” state where everyone was monitored.
She also warned against using drones to gather intelligence saying they should only be “weapons of war”.
Dame Stella, MI5’s first female chief, was speaking at The Telegraph Hay Festival in the aftermath of the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby by alleged Islamist fanatics in Woolwich last Wednesday.
The 25-year-old soldier was allegedly hacked to death by Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, in a suspected anti-Western attack.
It was the worst apparent terrorist atrocity on UK soil since the July 7 London bombings in 2005.
It emerged today that Mr Adebolajo made a second attempt to travel to Somalia to join extremist groups after failing in 2010, and the former Home Secretary, Jack Straw, warned that threats to ban extremist preachers from television would act as a “recruiting sergeant” for extremists and damage democracy.
Meanwhile a 10th man was arrested in connection with Drummer Rigby’s death while three others previously detained were released on police bail.
The atrocity has raised serious questions for MI5 after it emerged both suspects were known to them for up to a decade. Mr Adebolajo had been detained in Kenya in 2010 trying to join the al-Shabaab terrorist group in neighbouring Somalia. Friends claimed MI5 tried to recruit him as an informant when he returned.
The parliamentary intelligence and security committee is now conducting an inquiry to examine whether there were any intelligence failings that could have prevented the atrocity.
Dame Stella, 78, who was at Hay to promote her latest spy novel, The Geneva Trap, revived images of the Second World War when she urged the public to do their bit. She said it was impossible for the security services to spot every risk, especially amid the growing threat of people radicalising themselves over the internet.
Speaking to Gaby Wood, the Telegraph's head of books, the former spy master said: “The community has the responsibility to act as the eyes and ears, as they did during the war … where there were all these posters up saying the walls have ears and the enemy is everywhere.” She said: “There have often been indications in the community, whether it’s Muslim or anywhere else, that people are becoming extremists and spouting hate phrases.”
Dame Stella said the alleged ideology behind the Woolwich killing made it a “terrorist attack”. She said the nature of the al-Qaeda threat, whose strongholds in Pakistan and Afghanistan have been weakened, meant such ideologies had become “rooted in certain parts of society”. That was more difficult to deal with, she said.
She defended her former service and said the public had to accept there was a risk people would slip through the net. There were “thousands” of people being radicalised in the UK, which meant MI5 had to prioritise the greatest dangers. The alternative was to have a “police state”.
The former MI5 chief also warned against the expanding use of drones, saying: “Drones are a weapon of war and at the moment they’re being operated by security services.”
She also revealed how she and her family had to be moved to a secret address after a member of an active IRA cell in London was found with a copy of her home address in his pocket.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Monday, 8 April 2013
TV LIES-SENSE
A British 9/11 truther is claiming victory following a court ruling that said he did not have to pay a fine over his refusal to pay his annual £130 TV license fee.
Tony Rooke claimed the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks when it reported that World Trade Center 7 collapsed “due to an office fire, which, even the NIST report says, fell at free-fall speed for eight floors in 2.5 seconds. That is absolutely impossible without a controlled demolition being involved.” The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the U.S. government agency charged with investigating collapses.
In an act of civil disobedience, Rooke refused to support the BBC and pay the license fee because he believed the BBC has covered up the events of that day. To pay the license fee, he said, would be tantamount to supporting the terrorists responsible for the controlled demolition. He also argued that supporting terrorists would violate the UK’s Terrorism Act, which states: “It is an offence for someone to invite another to provide money, intending that it should be used, or having reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used, for terrorism purposes.”
Rooke was charged with not paying the license fee. Prior to his hearing, Rooke provided the court with evidence that both WTC towers and WTC 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition rather than by the airliner impacts and subsequent fires. The judge gave Rooke an unconditional discharge, which in British legal parlance means he was convicted but he does not suffer the consequences of a conviction and the conviction will be erased if he is not brought before the court for six months. He was not required to pay the fee and non-payment fine but had to pay court costs of £200.
The BBC first reported the collapse of WTC 7 about 20 minutes before it occurred. The “official line” from the U.S. government is the building fell due to fire damage. But it collapsed into its own footprint and was the first steel-reinforced high-rise to ever collapse due to an uncontrolled fire. Explosions were heard and reported prior to the collapse.
Bob Livingston
personalliberty
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/04/06/british-man-wins-small-victory-for-911-truthers/
http://archive.org/details/ExpertsOn9-11BuildingDemolition
Tony Rooke claimed the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks when it reported that World Trade Center 7 collapsed “due to an office fire, which, even the NIST report says, fell at free-fall speed for eight floors in 2.5 seconds. That is absolutely impossible without a controlled demolition being involved.” The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the U.S. government agency charged with investigating collapses.
In an act of civil disobedience, Rooke refused to support the BBC and pay the license fee because he believed the BBC has covered up the events of that day. To pay the license fee, he said, would be tantamount to supporting the terrorists responsible for the controlled demolition. He also argued that supporting terrorists would violate the UK’s Terrorism Act, which states: “It is an offence for someone to invite another to provide money, intending that it should be used, or having reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used, for terrorism purposes.”
Rooke was charged with not paying the license fee. Prior to his hearing, Rooke provided the court with evidence that both WTC towers and WTC 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition rather than by the airliner impacts and subsequent fires. The judge gave Rooke an unconditional discharge, which in British legal parlance means he was convicted but he does not suffer the consequences of a conviction and the conviction will be erased if he is not brought before the court for six months. He was not required to pay the fee and non-payment fine but had to pay court costs of £200.
The BBC first reported the collapse of WTC 7 about 20 minutes before it occurred. The “official line” from the U.S. government is the building fell due to fire damage. But it collapsed into its own footprint and was the first steel-reinforced high-rise to ever collapse due to an uncontrolled fire. Explosions were heard and reported prior to the collapse.
Bob Livingston
personalliberty
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/04/06/british-man-wins-small-victory-for-911-truthers/
http://archive.org/details/ExpertsOn9-11BuildingDemolition
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
DC Nick gets nicked
A corrupt detective has been found guilty of stealing large amounts of seized drugs and selling them back to drug dealers in a plot that made him and his brother around £600,000.
Detective Constable Nicholas McFadden of West Yorkshire police helped himself to tens of thousands of pounds of heroin, cocaine and cannabis by exploiting "slack" procedures at secret evidence stores, Leeds crown court heard.
McFadden, 38, was in charge of looking after evidence when he worked for a special organised crime group. His brother Simon McFadden, 41, a debt collector, then conspired to sell the illegal substances and made around £600,000.
The brothers "spent heavily but made so much money they didn't know what to do with it", jurors heard. They splashed out on exotic holidays, designer clothing, expensive jewellery, home improvements and private numberplates for their cars.
When police raided Nicholas's family home in Castleford, West Yorkshire, they found almost £160,000 in banknotes stuffed into sacks in his garage and £20,000 hidden around his house. They also discovered £6,000 in his sports car.
Nicholas denied stealing the drugs and conspiring to supply them but pleaded guilty to money laundering, claiming he stole the cash from a drug dealer and made money selling illegal steroids. Simon, of Harehills, Leeds, denied conspiracy to supply.
However, it took jurors less than four hours to find Nicholas guilty of stealing class A and B drugs including heroin and cocaine and both brothers guilty of conspiring to supply them.
The former police officer was acquitted on a charge of stealing amphetamine and the jury found both not guilty of conspiring to supply it.
Simon's wife Karen McFadden, who has a teenage son with her husband, pleaded guilty to money laundering and did not appear in the dock during the five-week trial. She will be sentenced with the two brothers at Leeds crown court on Thursday morning.
"The plot of the McFadden brothers was successful and it generated huge sums of cash," Paul Greaney QC said during the trial. "Nicholas McFadden exploited [his] trusted position to steal drugs in very substantial quantities.
"Once the drugs had been stolen, Nicholas McFadden and his elder brother Simon McFadden conspired together and with others to supply those drugs for a profit. So, in other words, drugs which the police had succeeded in removing from the streets were put back by the accused men, who did so for the sole purpose of making money for themselves."
Nicholas told colleagues his wife had received an insurance payout after getting cancer, which was a total lie, the court heard. He also told his wife Clair, a teacher, he had made lots of money on overtime and his police pension was kicking in.
Nicholas also gave a former partner, a police officer called Tanya Strangeway, more than £13,000 in cash and bought her an Audi car, claiming he had a windfall after selling his house.
The detective was caught after regularly paying cash into ATMs, which triggered a bank's security alert and police were informed. When he was arrested, he told police he found bags of cash in a ditch by the M62 motorway.
"As Nicholas McFadden was to explain to the officers, he thought all his birthdays had come at once," said Greaney.
The Crown told jurors that Nicholas used a range of methods to syphon off huge quantities of drugs, including failing to book cocaine and other illegal substances when they were moved between premises.
Greaney said McFadden, who joined the force in 2000 and climbed the ranks, was in a position of authority but exploited "slackness" in the store's security procedures.
Following the verdict, Detective Chief Inspector Nick Wallen of West Yorkshire police said he was extremely pleased with the outcome. He said: "This case has focused on a corrupt police officer - this man was in fact a criminal purporting to be a police officer."
Source: guardian.co.uk
Detective Constable Nicholas McFadden of West Yorkshire police helped himself to tens of thousands of pounds of heroin, cocaine and cannabis by exploiting "slack" procedures at secret evidence stores, Leeds crown court heard.
McFadden, 38, was in charge of looking after evidence when he worked for a special organised crime group. His brother Simon McFadden, 41, a debt collector, then conspired to sell the illegal substances and made around £600,000.
The brothers "spent heavily but made so much money they didn't know what to do with it", jurors heard. They splashed out on exotic holidays, designer clothing, expensive jewellery, home improvements and private numberplates for their cars.
When police raided Nicholas's family home in Castleford, West Yorkshire, they found almost £160,000 in banknotes stuffed into sacks in his garage and £20,000 hidden around his house. They also discovered £6,000 in his sports car.
Nicholas denied stealing the drugs and conspiring to supply them but pleaded guilty to money laundering, claiming he stole the cash from a drug dealer and made money selling illegal steroids. Simon, of Harehills, Leeds, denied conspiracy to supply.
However, it took jurors less than four hours to find Nicholas guilty of stealing class A and B drugs including heroin and cocaine and both brothers guilty of conspiring to supply them.
The former police officer was acquitted on a charge of stealing amphetamine and the jury found both not guilty of conspiring to supply it.
Simon's wife Karen McFadden, who has a teenage son with her husband, pleaded guilty to money laundering and did not appear in the dock during the five-week trial. She will be sentenced with the two brothers at Leeds crown court on Thursday morning.
"The plot of the McFadden brothers was successful and it generated huge sums of cash," Paul Greaney QC said during the trial. "Nicholas McFadden exploited [his] trusted position to steal drugs in very substantial quantities.
"Once the drugs had been stolen, Nicholas McFadden and his elder brother Simon McFadden conspired together and with others to supply those drugs for a profit. So, in other words, drugs which the police had succeeded in removing from the streets were put back by the accused men, who did so for the sole purpose of making money for themselves."
Nicholas told colleagues his wife had received an insurance payout after getting cancer, which was a total lie, the court heard. He also told his wife Clair, a teacher, he had made lots of money on overtime and his police pension was kicking in.
Nicholas also gave a former partner, a police officer called Tanya Strangeway, more than £13,000 in cash and bought her an Audi car, claiming he had a windfall after selling his house.
The detective was caught after regularly paying cash into ATMs, which triggered a bank's security alert and police were informed. When he was arrested, he told police he found bags of cash in a ditch by the M62 motorway.
"As Nicholas McFadden was to explain to the officers, he thought all his birthdays had come at once," said Greaney.
The Crown told jurors that Nicholas used a range of methods to syphon off huge quantities of drugs, including failing to book cocaine and other illegal substances when they were moved between premises.
Greaney said McFadden, who joined the force in 2000 and climbed the ranks, was in a position of authority but exploited "slackness" in the store's security procedures.
Following the verdict, Detective Chief Inspector Nick Wallen of West Yorkshire police said he was extremely pleased with the outcome. He said: "This case has focused on a corrupt police officer - this man was in fact a criminal purporting to be a police officer."
Source: guardian.co.uk
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