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Abu Hamza al-Masri – who was once one of Britain’s most infamous “radical preachers” – secretly worked for MI5, his lawyers have told a court in the US. Abu Hamza’s lawyers claimed the Egyptian-born preacher, who was giving evidence for the first time in his trial in New York, had ...

Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made ...