UK's MI5 in al-Qaeda 'breach' query

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Source: Al Jazeera English

The head of a UK parliamentary counter-terrorism committee has called for the government to clarify whether al-Qaeda operatives have tried to infiltrate the MI5 domestic security agency.

Patrick Mercer, the chairman of the British parliament's sub-committee on counter-terrorism, said he had been told that up to six Muslim recruits had been ejected from the spy agency because of concerns about their backgrounds.

Al Jazeera correspondent Alan Fisher reported that Mercer had said two of the men who had attempted to join MI5 after the London suicide bombings on July 7, 2005, had attended training camps in Pakistan while the others had unexplained gaps in their curriculum vitae.

Mercer said he wanted Alan Johnson, the British home secretary , to detail how far down the recruitment process the men had got before they were weeded out, and to ensure the vetting process was as tight as possible.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/08/200981155746948180.html

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Conservative MP Patrick Mercer

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1. It's more likely that MI5 infiltrated al-Qaeda.

This guy is just the usual RW fear monger.