Policeman admits spying for Saudis

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A British policeman was hired by a Saudi diplomat to supply confidential information on the radical cleric Abu Hamza, members of an east African political dynasty and a prominent dissident, it was revealed yesterday.
PC Ghazi Kassim gleaned details of his targets from police computers and databases and in some cases interrogated the people he been commissioned to find out about.

The diplomat, Ali al-Shamarani, the third secretary of the Saudi embassy in London, left the UK last year after it emerged that he had the Met police officer in his pocket.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,1299545,00.html

Canadian William Sampson was facing a public beheading in Saudi Arabia, having been convicted of carrying out bombings that killed a British man and injured several others.

But after 2½ years in a jail, most of which was spent in solitary confinement, Sampson and five accused British citizens were released from prison.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sampson/index.html