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Woolwich stabbings and MI5

  • 28-05-2013 9:48pm
    #1
    Brown Bomber
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    A British guy who was held at Guantanamo and then released set up a Human Right s group called "Cage Prisoners" to help the political prisoners of the so called war on terror.

    They had taken on the case of the stabber who was talking into the camera phone. He had claimed that he had been taken into custody by the Kenyan security services and had been tortured and raped at the behest of the British.

    He was released and on his return had been in contact with the British covert services. His file, which was seem by Sky News shows the last recorded contact the British security services had had with him.
    The notes, seen by Sky News, claim the last text message from a security agent, sent in 2012, read: “We have no option but to proceed without you."
    http://news.sky.com/story/1096195/woolwich-suspect-erratic-and-paranoid

    What I'd like to know is what MI5 (or whomever else it may have been) wanted to proceed with. Any thoughts?


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  • #2
    Hoop66
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    It does seem that there's a bit more to this than meets the eye.

    If Adebolajo was approached and possibly tortured by, or at the behest of, UK security forces while he was in Kenya, then this shouldn't be discounted as possible motivation for the attack of last week.

    It may be that MI5 were putting pressure on him via relatives to work as an informer and that the text message was a final attempt to get him "on side". If this is the case, it's not beyond the bounds of possibilty that he was driven to make the attack knowing that he had nothing to lose.

    Unlikely that any of this is going to come out though. Ibrahim Hassan, the guy who was on Newsnight last week and was arrested after his appearance, has written to Malcolm Rifkind, chair of the Intelligence & Security Committee. What he thinks that will achieve, I don't know.


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