[privacy] UK: Anti-terror police bug Muslim Labour MP

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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.

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More:
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Antiterror-police-bug-Muslim-Labour.373
9224.jp

- - ferg

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