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=== News Update ===
Racist : UK Spying On Muslims Who Visit Mecca
Terror watch on Mecca pilgrims
By David Leppard
01/21/07
"<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2558373,00.html>The Times"
-- - THE intelligence agencies are monitoring every Muslim who travels from
Britain to Mecca on pilgrimage in a wider effort to piece together
intelligence on suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist activity.
A senior Whitehall official has disclosed that the operation targeting
trips to the holy city in Saudi Arabia by more than 100,000 British Muslims
is part of a trawl by MI5 and MI6 for information about movements of
suspected terrorists. It follows evidence that British Islamic terrorists
have visited the city before carrying out attacks in Britain and abroad.
The importance of the intelligence operation was one of the reasons given
by spy chiefs for maintaining ties with Saudi Arabia when the Saudi
government was threatening to break off intelligence ties over a bribery
investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into BAE, Britain's prime
defence contractor.
Sir John Scarlett, the head of MI6, and Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the
director-general of MI5, told Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, that
Saudi co-operation in the fight against Al-Qaeda was vital.
A well-placed security official said Scarlett and Manningham-Buller used
the Mecca surveillance operation as evidence of the need for continuing
intelligence ties with the kingdom: "They made it clear to Goldsmith that
they were concerned about the implications for national security of losing
Saudi co-operation. They said that every British Muslim who makes the
pilgrimage to Mecca was monitored."
This weekend Muslim leaders voiced their unhappiness about the operation.
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim parliament, said: "It is
absolutely wrong that people who are going to Mecca for entirely religious
purposes should be monitored by the security services. It is a sad
commentary on Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia."
The Mecca operation is thought to have been launched after the July 7
London bombings. MI5 discovered that at least two of the suicide bombers
had made the holy trip.
source:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2558373,00.html
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