British Spy Agency Blackmails Muslims: Independent

The Independent:

Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.

Read the whole story: The Independent

Comments

[zees]

10:24 PM on 05/21/2009

I'm sure they can find other willing people...no need for coercion. A bit disturbing that so many intelligence agencies are doing this AND also turning their back on people who have helped them. there must be a better way.

[escribacat]

09:19 PM on 05/21/2009

How could they trust intelligence from someone who had been coerced to produce it?

[Paulo1]

09:20 AM on 05/21/2009

Well they are MI5 you know, their job is to get information and to that little thing called Spying that keeps them all earning the Queens cash.

Now I am not an expert but I think more than a little bit of bribery, blackmail, lying and such go with the territory and with the London bombings I also suspect that they would be rather more focused on Muslims than on say.... Baptists from Sweden??

Now if they were engaging in torture, illegal renditions, holding people for years in Gulags in Cuba or anything like that I would say we would have something uniquely offensive. Hmmm. Obama, you want to tackle that part..... ?

[IDIOTA]

07:51 PM on 05/21/2009

That's balanced.