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Pak intelligence’s severe ‘torture’ saved Rauf from being extradited to UK

London, Sep.9 (ANI): The Pakistani intelligence had tortured Rashid Rauf, the alleged mastermind of the airliner bombing plot, so badly that Britain had to abandon its plan to prosecute him.

According to the Guardian, Rauf was treated so badly that he could not be extradited.

Rauf, who was born in Pakistan in January 1981 and raised in [...]

MI6 chief’s beach pics on Facebook ‘no state secret’, says UK Foreign Secretary

London, July 6 (ANI): Reacting on the headlines grabbed by new MI6 head Sir John Sawers’ photographs, which appeared on Facebook, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that it is “not a state secret” that the spy chief wears Speedos.

John’s wife Shelley Sawers [...]

New MI6 chief’s wife blatantly breaches secrecy by posting ‘plenty’ on Facebook

London, July 5 (ANI): The credibility of Britain’s new chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir John Sawers, is being questioned after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on Facebook.

Currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sir John will take up his post as MI6 head, in charge of Britain’s spying [...]

GITMO camp X-ray exposes MI5’s secret deals to recruit informants

London, May 6 (ANI): Britain’s MI5 secretly tried to hire British men held in Guantanamo Bay and other US prison camps by promising to protect them from their American captors and help secure their return home to the United Kingdom, The Independent has learnt.

One of the men, Richard Belmar, was told he would be paid [...]

Ex-MI6 chief says UK was ‘dragged’ into Iraq war

London, May 4 (ANI): Britain was “dragged into a war in Iraq which was always against our better judgment” a former deputy head of MI6 has claimed.
Former MI6 deputy director Nigel Inkster’s comments make clear there were reservations over the war at a very senior level within the Secret Intelligence Service.

MI6 was blamed for the [...]

Wanted: a doctor to counsel Britain’s stressed, tired spies

London, May 3 (ANI): Britain’s secret service, Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), is looking for an occupational health adviser to counsel spies, who are feeling worse for wear after taking on enemies such as Al-Qaeda and Chinese cyber-spies.

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Britain’s MI6’s special Pak operation facilitated arrests of 11 alleged terrorists

London, Apr.11 (ANI): The British foreign intelligence agency MI6’s special operation to monitor terror activities in Pakistan provided the authorities important links, following which they arrested 11 alleged Pakistani terrorists from across the country.

According to a report in The Guardian, the British [...]

British Military Intelligence implicated in 15 new torture cases

London, Mar 28 (ANI): British security and intelligence officers have expressed their concerns over the mistreatment of detained terror suspects, interviewed while in US custody abroad.

Military Intelligence-Section 5 (MI5) and Military Intelligence-Section 6 (MI6) recently set up an inquiry to look into the allegations.

The senior officials in MI5 and MI6 have revealed 15 similar [...]

Brit nuclear HQ available on Google Earth

London, Mar. 2 (ANI): Britain’s nuclear defense headquarters is freely available on Google Earth, and potentially can be targeted.

Providing close-up aerial views of the headquarters, Google Earth reveals the longitude and latitude of the facility in Faslane, Scotland – [...]