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MI5 “blocked” arrest of Islamic State-supporting Anjem Choudary “for years”

Aug 22, 2016 7:59 pm By Robert Spencer

“I am gobsmacked that we allowed him to carry on as long as he did. He was up to his neck in it, but the police can’t do full investigations on people if the security service say they are working on a really big job, because they have the priority…It was very frustrating and did cause some tension, but we were told we had to consider the bigger picture.”

Given the state of shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, the “bigger picture” was probably that they were afraid of charges of “Islamophobia.”

Anjem-Choudary

“MI5 ‘blocked’ arrest of ISIS-supporting radical preacher Choudary ‘for years,’” RT, August 22, 2016:

Counterterrorism officers were repeatedly blocked by British security service MI5 from pursuing criminal investigations against Britain’s highest-profile radical preacher, Anjem Choudary, it has been claimed.

Last week, Choudary was found guilty of supporting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL), which seized territory in Iraq and Syria and inspired terrorist attacks across Europe.

Following his conviction, it was revealed that the 49-year-old former lawyer had been linked to at least 15 terrorist plots since 2001. Police also believe he has connections to as many as 500 of the 850 young British Muslims who have traveled abroad to join IS.

According to the Telegraph, counter-terrorism officers often felt they had enough evidence to build a case against the cleric, only to be told to hang fire by MI5 because he was crucial to one of their ongoing investigations.

The situation led to a build-up of tension between the two sides, with police feeling “frustrated” that Choudary was not being brought to justice, a source told the newspaper.

He was eventually prosecuted after swearing an oath of allegiance to IS and posting YouTube videos in which he praised the group.

One counterterrorism source says the decision not to prosecute him earlier came from MI5.

“I am gobsmacked that we allowed him to carry on as long as he did. He was up to his neck in it, but the police can’t do full investigations on people if the security service say they are working on a really big job, because they have the priority,” he told the Telegraph.

“That is what they did constantly. While the police might have had lots of evidence, they were pulled back by the security service because he [Choudary] was one of the people they were monitoring.

“It was very frustrating and did cause some tension, but we were told we had to consider the bigger picture.”…

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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    Counterterrorism officers were repeatedly blocked by British security service MI5 from pursuing criminal investigations against Britain’s highest-profile radical preacher, Anjem Choudary, it has been claimed.

    A while back a muslim police agent was accused of tipping off Choudary about law enforcement going after him. What are the odds that someone named muhammad signed the dispatch(es) telling local law enforcement touching Choudary was haram?

  2. gretel says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Nothing about muslims and the pandering govts would surprise me any more. We have been living in this George Orwell novel for long enough for us to realize we can’t expect logic or normalcy from either. It might sound like I’m exaggerating, but I am not.

  3. Kepha says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    My guess is that the spooks were listening in on virtually all that Chowderhead said and to whom; and were learning a lot about who might be planning mischief. When MI5 got what it wanted out of the Chowderhead, it let lesser agencies move in for the kill.

    With absolutely no sympathy for Aching Chowderhead,

    Uncle Kepha.

    • Frank Courtney says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 11:25 am

      Exactly right Kepha.

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 8:49 pm

    I am gobsmacked that we allowed him to carry on as long as he did…
    …………………..

    I think all of us sane Infidels felt this way.

  5. Emilie Green says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    “. . . but we were told we had to consider the bigger picture”

    “Ya know, this country won’t turn into an Islamic one on its own. Everyone has to do their part. Remember the big picture, chum.”

  6. David M says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    The British government is an absolute cesspit: selling large amounts of weapons to Saudi Arabia, despite knowing they are killing civilians with them in Yemen, banning Robert & Pamela from entering, & seeking to wipe out free speech.

  7. biff says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    In all fairness the idea is to keep the crazy main guy under surveillance and then they find all the people like him.

    The crazy Jihadi are like flies on shit to a person like him.

    It’s all about how deep we want the surveillance state.

  8. kangi_nunpa says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    The ISIS Genocide of Middle Eastern Christian Minorities and Its Jizya Propaganda Ploy
    Off topic, but this http://www.insideronline.org/2016/07/the-isis-genocide-of-middle-eastern-christian-minorities-and-its-jizya-propaganda-ploy/ is pretty amazing. If you’d like to get the .pdf directly, there’s a link on their site, or you can go to: https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.hudson.org/files/publications/20160721TheISISGenocideofMiddleEasternChristianMinoritiesandItsJizyaPropagandaPloy.pdf

  9. Kurt says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    I agree with MI5 tactics here, when chasing a big dog like this you want to gather as much information you can to catch the additional rats in the system.

  10. John Thomas says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 12:31 am

    Don’t hold your breath re sentencing. 100 hours of community service will be about right. Dhimmies!

  11. Hector Archytas says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 3:33 am

    England is managed by the British administration as India with a balanced between communities. With this strategy, the community with the highest fecundity rate is sure to take on the country.

    And British will be push out of England within 40 years (toward Scotland od Wales ?) as they had been push out of India. Those who stay would end up as Janissaries fighting for the Jihad with Pakistani against China and India with British military technology.

    This is a wise prospect.
    Time for the http://www.electronicdemocry.co.uk

  12. M Ali Khan says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 5:43 am

    Less to do with “Dhimmi tude” and more to do with the fact that these Jihadis in Europe have been intelligence assets and informers for all major agencies for many years.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 10:17 am

      More like double agents, usually criminals, former convicts, blackmailed into infiltrating jihadis, who more often than not double-cross the same major agencies. If Choudary was an “asset” how well did that work out? For Lee Rigby? For the victims (past and future) of the hundreds he helped send to ISIS? For discrediting “radical” Islam in Britain? Who is outsmarting whom here, unless spying on Choudary prevented a nuclear holocaust, what was gained by protecting him?

  13. ElderlyZionist says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 6:34 am

    +1 biff. Maybe MI5 was not so dumb:

    “Following his conviction, it was revealed that the 49-year-old former lawyer had been linked to at least 15 terrorist plots since 2001. Police also believe he has connections to as many as 500 of the 850 young British Muslims who have traveled abroad to join IS.”

    Choudary, left to wander around free, was a gigantic mobile honey bucket. I expect anyone he spoke with got investigated. Good.

  14. Frank Courtney says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Choudary was an immense asset to MI5. I just hope they have replacement(s). I guess they have so that’s why they’ve handed him over to PC Plod now.

  15. Marty says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 11:59 am

    MI5 may have been quite smart.
    Choudary was essentially an enormous heap of the vilest
    excrement imaginable.
    MI5 almost certainly recorded the identities of the sewer rats
    that were attracted to him.

  16. harbidoll says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    uh, double agent. More busy than ever now in prison.

  17. anjem choudary sucks says

    Sep 18, 2016 at 12:47 pm

    Anjem choudary I hope you get what coming to you and your stupid followers. Stand up to these worthless trash people. I know few muslims who are good people. They not want any trouble. See down here in Texas we won’t put up with trash people like anjem or his kind. Act right and obey America ways or get out. Will help you pack.?????

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