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[privacy] UK: Anti-terror police bug Muslim Labour MP
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 02:17:12 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Scotsman. [snip] SCOTLAND Yard's anti-terrorist police secretly bugged a leading Muslim Labour MP during private meetings with one of his constituents, it was claimed last night. The Ministry of Justice confirmed it was investigating the allegation that Sadiq Khan, who is now a government whip, was recorded by a device hidden in a table while he visited a constituent in prison who is facing extradition for terror-related offences. It also emerged last night that officers initially had misgivings about bugging a parliamentarian which is in breach of a government edict banning eavesdropping on politicians but that they went ahead with the surveillance operation anyway. Justice Secretary Jack Straw has ordered an immediate inquiry as a leading Muslim MP said that the Islamic community in the UK would be dismayed and in fear as a result of the incident. According to a newspaper report, the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist squad used a hidden electronic listening device to record two conversations that Khan had in 2005 and 2006 with Babar Ahmad, a constituent who is facing deportation to the United States. The US government has accused Ahmad of running a website that allegedly raised funds for Taliban and Chechen terrorists in the late Nineties. Ahmad faces no charges in Britain, but is wanted in the United States, where his website is registered. [snip] More: http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Antiterror-police-bug-Muslim-Labour.373 9224.jp - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHpSQkq1pz9mNUZTMRAnWqAJ9HLPIyHBwSfR+SKcEHXHOH72hESwCdFlv6 Iwe5iUDrVlkRODvfMtc8xHQ= =uf3N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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