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UK: Muslim MI5 agent plotted jihad attack against his handlers

Mar 29, 2015 7:03 pm By Robert Spencer

cameron-and-mayAnd so the rolling absurdity that is modern Britain continues. The British government’s line is that Muslims are “radicalized” by poverty and discrimination, and so therefore showering Muslim communities with money and preferential treatment will take care of the problem in a jiffy. Yet here was a man who was a trusted member of MI5, the British spy agency. He wasn’t alienated from British society — he was part of Britain’s core intelligence apparatus. He was almost certainly not hurting for money, unless he had a lifestyle so lavish that he couldn’t sustain it on his MI5 salary. And yet he turned to jihad anyway.

The willfully ignorant government of David Cameron has absolutely no way to understand this. The only way it could begin to do so would be to depart from its official line and tread into areas it has labeled “hate” and “Islamophobia.” What is one to do if the truth can only be found beyond a fence of one’s own making?

“British double agent ‘plotted to kill his MI5 handler and attack UK’ after infiltrating jihadist group in Syria,” by Duncan Gardham, The Mail On Sunday, March 29, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

An MI5 agent was allegedly recruited by a terrorist mastermind in Syria and sent back to Britain in a plot to launch a devastating attack against his handlers.

The agent was recruited by MI5 as an undercover informant within the radical Islamic community and he then travelled to Syria where he became part of a jihadist group.

But he apparently double-crossed his British handlers and returned to London with plans to launch an ‘insider attack’ in the capital.

The Mail on Sunday has been aware of the alleged plot for more than a year but agreed to previous requests from the security services not to publish the story for ‘national security’ reasons.

Parts of the plot were reported in a story in The Mail on Sunday last year, in which we revealed that the jihadist, who has a British passport, had plans to attack Central London and that David Cameron had been briefed about the details.

This newspaper is aware of the man’s identity and further details of the investigation but are not printing them for legal reasons.

A long undercover operation was run by MI5 to try to identify linked individuals who might be travelling back from Syria to launch similar attacks but this investigation has now concluded, meaning we can now report the fact that he was a potential ‘double agent’….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    Prayer time-bomb

    Remember, Muslims are not bowing; they are merely showing us their –ss.
    Forever, they keep searching for diamonds in their pile of trash.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 11:23 pm

      They are bowing to an idol representing the birth of the war god in the form of chips of a smashed stone that was smashed by Muslims who didn’t think it was very sacred at the time or they wouldn’t have smashed it.

    • Lia Wissing says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 5:13 am

      The WH in Washington also harbours such ‘secutiry’ personnel.

    • Shane says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 11:02 am

      Liberal twits blame all sorts of bad behavior on poverty, though in the case of Islamic terrorism, there is little evidence to support this view. The people financing the global jihad are some of the wealthiest people in the world. Liberalism is truly a mental disease that makes its sufferers hate and betray their country.

  2. duh_swami says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 7:40 pm

    recruited by a terrorist mastermind

    I knew some of them were smart, but I didn’t know they are ‘that’ smart…

    • Joseph says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 9:08 pm

      The master inside the pigpen is still a pig.

  3. David, Thailand says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    Look at it from Cameron’s point of view. Whether through political expedience, ignorance, intimidation or sheer fear of Islam, he blundered. And let’s get real, it’s not inconceivable that he has been purchased.

    Whatever the cause, he took a firm position of infinite tolerance, and a u-turn now would mean the end of his political career, which to him is more important than the consequences to future generations. He has no choice but to continue accommodating Islam.

    Unfortunately, he absolutely must win the coming election, because the alternative, Miliband and his crew of hardened Leftists, would result in an even hastier demise for British society.

    • carpediadem says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 10:34 am

      Um – the Left got purchased a long time ago.

      It would be true justice were it Cameron and his Islam-friendly personnel who were targeted by terrorists.
      Unfortunately it’s usually innocent people who wear the penalties for the perfidies of Cameron and Co.

  4. somehistory says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    Sounds a lot like the program MI5 that used to be on television…a fictional storyline…but Harry and Ruth and others would have been smart enough to know not to hire him or even recommend him for hire, in the first place. Like showing the master safe-cracker where the safe is located, telling him all your gold is inside along with the diamonds and other precious gems and expecting him to leave the valuables alone.

  5. umbra says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    No doubt MI5/6 still have other ROP “informants” on their payroll. However, an informant is not an agent, just a lap dog which in this instance tried to bite the hand that feeds it. Nevertheless, all spies/agents should be vetted, and perhaps monitored, to exclude those who have contracted the very virulent ROP disease.

  6. jewdog says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    If present trends continue, Britain will eventually become an Islamic country, and will have completed its devolution from empire and colonizer to colonized. No Muslim majority country is a fit place for an infidel, and Britain will be no exception. Since Britain is an island, English refugees will probably be looking for something comparable, perhaps somewhere in the north Atlantic, where the gloomy, foggy weather reminds them of home, and the isolation allows them to have a pint after work without the fear of a whipping, and the walruses have no interest in their daughters.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    The double agent proves that Islam’s TAQIYYA is a deeper deception.

    Muslims teach lying to their children. By the time of adulthood, most Muslims become EXPERT, even CHAMPION liars. It’s a sacred, APPROVED part of Islam.

    Muslims learn to lie to everyone…to other Muslims, to parents, to their companions, to their spouse, to kafirs for the pleasure of it…to EVERYONE!

    • Raja says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 10:37 am

      Hope your truth travels to the ends of the world. Muslims lie about their religions too not just being apologists!!!! They invite you for a debate and then fudge the subject to deceive with the doctoring of the tape!!! I have experienced that with an American’s answer on bible and on salvation being subverted to suite the terrorists doctrine. This is done with impunity through cable television etc. Another point: In Asia if you are a good liar you are considered to be “street smart” other wise you are an outcast.I guess this very true in Islamic cultures!!!!!

  8. Papa Whiskey says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 12:45 am

    This is simply one of the risks involved in spookery. What this guy did is no different than what Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi did to the CIA’s Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. Posing as an al-Qaeda mole, Balawi got past the facility’s perimeter and blew himself up, taking with him the chief of the base, six other CIA officers, a Jordanian, and an Afghan.

    It should be noted that in intelligence work an “agent” is not a member of the agency that recruited him. He would be recruited and run by a case officer, who is. This particular agent was “turned” and then run by a case officer of the opposition.

  9. Barry K. says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 12:58 am

    Papa Whiskey is correct and I would say that the headline on this piece should be changed. The person involved was NOT an agent of British intelligence, he was an informer used by them in the field and he turned into a double agent. This is not unusual. One of the most famous cases was in Czarist Russia where the head of the terrorist Combat Brigades of the Socialist Revolutionary Party which carried out numerous high-level assassinations, including the uncle of the Czar, was a police agent and was playing both sides against each other. Even to this day it is unclear where his true sentiments were.
    A real “traitor” would be someone like the famous British turncoat intelligence men. Philby, MacLean, Burgess and Blunt who were Britishers who came up from within the system and sold out to the Soviet Union.

  10. ECAW says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 4:23 am

    How I deplore the efficiency of our security serves! In this “game of own goals” phase of the confrontation between civilisation and global jihad we desperately need more of these plots to get through since the resulting atrocities are our main hope for waking up the people.

    Some high profile casualties are exactly what we need, preferably from among the politicians and opinion formers who have brought us to this sorry state. When our leaders start losing some of their own or have to live under total security like Geert Wilders and so many other truth tellers we may find it has a salutary effect on their outlooks.

    • carpediadem says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 10:36 am

      Well said.

  11. Keil says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 6:42 am

    Moslems are inept for our Western societies. No matter how you treat them (the better, the worse), they’ll always stab you preferably in the back.

    • Raja says

      Mar 31, 2015 at 10:03 pm

      Calling the muslims inept is gross understatement. Vast majority who may be inept is brain washed to believe that their culture of barbarianism is far superior than the west because it is from God. The dirty tricks department of Islam has brains working overtime to influence/coerce key people in power of West. To add to this evil you have so called friendly states of Arab world who are sleeping with West/Western leaders and also gassing/slow poisoning the very same !!!!! The Western leaders do no have the spine or even character to name the enemy leave alone containing the satanic codes and beliefs!!!!! This cult questions the very authorities established by God and the West is looking the other way!!!

      • Keil says

        Apr 1, 2015 at 9:33 am

        I do not disagree with you, the Moslems’ worldview are distorted due to more than a thousand years of indoctrination. – I just had a soft moment which was, of course, untimely.

  12. JohnF says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 6:47 am

    I cannot emphasise enough the true meaning of the Islamic words from the Koran “Taqiyya y Kitman”, the direct meaning is…

    Lying (Taqiyya and Kitman)

    Question:
    Are Muslims permitted to lie?

    Summary Answer:
    Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences.”
    There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, taqiyya and kitman. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.

    The Qur’an:
    Qur’an (16:106) – Establishes that there are circumstances that can “compel” a Muslim to tell a lie.
    Qur’an (3:28) – This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to “guard themselves.”
    Qur’an (9:3) – “…Allah and His Messenger are free from liability to the idolaters…” The dissolution of oaths with the pagans who remained at Mecca following its capture. They did nothing wrong, but were evicted anyway.
    Qur’an (40:28) – A man is introduced as a believer, but one who must “hide his faith” among those who are not believers.
    Qur’an (2:225) – “Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts” The context of this remark is marriage, which explains why Sharia allows spouses to lie to each other for the greater good.
    Qur’an (66:2) – “Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths”
    Qur’an (3:54) – “And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers.” The Arabic word used here for scheme (or plot) is makara, which literally means deceit. If Allah is deceitful toward unbelievers, then there is little basis for denying that Muslims are allowed to do the same. (See also 8:30 and 10:21)
    Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be “compelled” to deceive others for a greater purpose.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Therefore in this context, all attempts of bribery by non Muslims will be seen as trickery and eventually grant them a further reason to enhance Islam by lying. As far as Islam is concerned there is only one religion and that is Islam, all attempts to change this will fail in their eyes. This is true for all Muslims, they are convinced that Islam is the only way and to that end they will lie their way out of ANYTHING. Western politicians are just as bad, if not worse with their devious ways of lies and deceit. There is really only one difference, does the west want to live under the Koran. Don’t think that different sects of Islam are a reason to sit back to see which side wins. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them and do nothing to prevent it… Take very good note of all this please. Q.E.D.

    • ECAW says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 10:51 am

      Thanks, I’ll take a note of those. I didn’t realise the Koran was so clear on the subject.

    • Lioness says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 11:03 am

      Every Muslim in a western nation’s service – be it armed forces, government or judicial – is a “sleeper” (or part of a sleeper cell) waiting to do jihad when the opportunity strikes. Western governments know that, but because of Islamophobia fear, they allow Muslims to be recruited, so they can show how diverse and open minded they are. No one is surprised that those traitors commit jihad. And when it happens, Obama apologizes to Islam: “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet”.

  13. Raja says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 10:46 am

    Some Egyptian called Islam a complete war machine !!! How true it is. Should I not take it seriously?. All the traits and characters of the devil can be found in a terrorist and his cheerleader.

  14. cat says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 11:21 am

    The most important concept for all governments of western societies to know is Islam’s taqiyya…and the verses are written above by JohnF. Once you understand this you can detect and understand how and why Muslims moved into government positions to advise. learn and deceive. Setting up organization in schools, health organizations, food industries, defense departments, airline companies and manufacturers, pharmacies, charity groups, driving trucks, working in nuclear power plants, refugees.They are educated, act pious, demur but all with intent that someday they could use their position to create advantages against detection, credibility. Taking control and power, and when jihad strikes act offended. It can be ingenious until detected. But it has to be known.

  15. thomas pellow says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    “The majority of voters doubt that Islam is compatible with British values.
    “How can politics unite two communities that don’t trust one another?”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11503493/The-majority-of-voters-doubt-that-Islam-is-compatible-with-British-values.html

  16. FredvanH says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 12:55 pm

    Throwing the hardworking autochton tax payer’s money at groups of people of a common ethnicity and/or religion in return for merely more than socially acceptable behavior shows just how degenerate the west has become.

  17. Harry says

    Mar 30, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Islam is an all encompassing ideology to the exclusion and expulsion of all other rational independent logic,dependent on cultivating ignorance amongst its imbecile medieval adherents and inherently unable to evolve into any semblance of coexistence or accommodation.As such it is doomed to extinction BUT continues to get by for the time being because the rest of humanity is bound by its mores of accommodation and tolerance of idiocy.The sooner we all come to grips with the reality the less blood will be spilled.History repeats because we fail to heed its lessons.

    • terry says

      Mar 31, 2015 at 12:12 am

      Your comment is filled with words of wisdom, Harry!

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