US withheld al-Qaida terrorist plot details from UK intelligence
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Source: The Guardian
The UK government has claimed that the US withheld information from MI5 and MI6 about a possible terrorist plot because they feared British courts would reveal evidence of wrongdoing by foreign intelligence agencies.
According to a story leaked to the Daily Telegraph, the CIA warned Britain's security and intelligence agencies that al-Qaida was planning an attack 18 months ago but withheld detailed information. It quoted security sources saying the US move was in retaliation for a decision by UK courts more than two years ago to disclose a brief summary of CIA information.
That information confirmed that Binyam Mohamed, a British resident secretly flown to Guantánamo Bay, had been brutally treated. The CIA information was passed to MI5 and MI6, who fought unsuccessfully to suppress it.
The Telegraph on Thursday described MI6 as being particularly "frustrated" after receiving "only the tip not the intelligence" about an alleged plot in which armed terrorists dressed as civilians were planning an indiscriminate attack on British soil.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/05/us-withheld-al-qaida-terrorist-plot-uk
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