Former head of MI5 calls for people to spy on neighbours following murder of soldier Lee Rigby
( Rumblings of recognition beginning to emerge in the UK. Hope it’s not too late for them. – JW )
- Dame Stella Rimington said members of the public have to be the Government’s ‘eyes and ears’
- 78-year-old, who spoke at the Hay Festival, was MI5’s first female director
By Emily Davies
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Former head of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington has called for British people to inform security services if they suspect their neighbours maybe extremists
Dame Stella, who supports the Government’s controversial ‘snoopers’ charter’, said people need to be more alert because it is impossible for security services to spot every threat.
She called for a wartime vigilance and for people to be the Government’s ‘eyes and ears’ following the killing of Lee Rigby.
The 78-year-old, who was MI5’s first female Director General, said: ‘The community has the responsibility to act as the eyes and ears, as they did during the war … where there were all these posters up saying the walls have ears and the enemy is everywhere.
‘There have often been indications in the community, whether it’s Muslim or anywhere else, that people are becoming extremists and spouting hate phrases.’
Dame Stella said security services had to prioritise the most dangerous threats because ‘thousands’ of people were being radicalised in Britain.
She said further terror attacks on the UK were inevitable unless the country became a ‘police state’.
Her comments, made at the Hay Festival, were prompted following the killing of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby by alleged Islamist fanatics Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, in Woolwich last Wednesday.
Radicalised: Michael Adebolajo brandishing bloodied knives after the murder of Lee Rigby last week
Arrested: In 2010 Michael Adebolajo, second from right, was among nine suspected members of the Al-Shabaab movement captured by Kenyan police
Dame Stella said the Woolwich killing was classified as a ‘terrorist attack’ because of the ideology behind the attack.
It has now emerged that Adebolajo made a second attempt to travel to Somalia to join extremist groups after failing in 2010.
The killing has raised questions about MI5 after it also emerged the two suspects were known to them.
Adebolajo was detained in Kenya in 2010 after trying to join a terrorist group.
An investigation by parliamentary intelligence is being carried out to determine whether there were intelligence failings.
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WarSclerotic 
May 28, 2013 at 4:41 PM
If it is to late for them it is to late for the whole western world.
Just a matter of time.
May 28, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Report: U.S. Weapons System Designs Breached by Chinese Cyber Attacks
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/28/US-Weapons-Compromised-Chinese-cyberspies
The USA military apparatus has syphilis they are leaking.
May 28, 2013 at 6:34 PM
The Chinese are wasting their time. Why in the world would they want to destroy a country that owes them so much cash? A default would send their economy in a tail spin. Meanwhile, the USA could benefit economically and the stock market would probably go through the roof.
May 28, 2013 at 7:13 PM
As if the US is ever able to pay what they owe….
May 28, 2013 at 7:35 PM
you mean they stole a load of dud files left there for them to find we did all the time in the cold war
May 28, 2013 at 7:54 PM
“As if the US is ever…”
Debt is two sided. While some may not have a lot of faith in the USA, other countries seem to have confidence in our ability to service the national debt. They back this confidence with their hard-earned money. All I’m saying is why would the Chicoms sabotage the very system they depend upon to service their debt, that’s all. Money talks and BS walks…that’s what I say.
May 28, 2013 at 11:07 PM
i think its comical what they have to say about the UK and USA,America is the richest country in the world the worlds number 1 oil and gas producer,the UK controls the worlds money our queen is worth more than the lot put together,and the uk economy larger that’s the what left put together
May 28, 2013 at 5:10 PM
Where is James if you need him, making money-penny harpy ??
May 28, 2013 at 7:11 PM
The DDR tried the same methods, and failed miserably.
May 28, 2013 at 7:51 PM
The methods of your IRGC-thugs are of course more subtle.
Talking about miserable failure. How is the monkey doing?
You are such a joke. Thanks for the laugh.
May 28, 2013 at 7:38 PM
i hyave to say not one of you has ever been to the uk we really dont have a problem the muslims are a tiny minority about to be sent home by UKIP,the people we want out of our country are the scroungers from the EU especially anyone from Holland of Poland
May 28, 2013 at 9:25 PM
The first persons to spy on and prosecute are the members of the oligarchy who willfully let all those Muslims in.
One of their strategic goals was to use the Muslims’ presence and violence to justify the implementation of a police state.
For the oligarchs, people need to be exploited and controlled…better than that : they must be made to want being controlled. It could never have happened without Muslims.
Obama, the US oligarchs’ puppet, does the same in America. Al-Qaeda and the other puppets of the CIA used against countries like Libya, then China and Russia, they are not considered enemies anymore, there is no more war on terrorism. The only enemy is the individual citizen, thanks to a few terrorists conveniently never jailed or sent back to their homeland, so all citizens must be spied on.
It is a conspiracy so obvious, so gross, that millions of people are perfectly aware of it. It is rotten to the core. The oligarchs’ position is very fragile.
May 28, 2013 at 9:45 PM
i they never really were considered enemy’s just certain factions were considered enemy’s and yes thats what there for destroying Russia and china,there never was a war on terror that was to justify NATO until Russia and china’s turn came to be destroyed and you know what the plans going better than we expected,as fpr spying on the rag heads that’s very British don’t forget we invented the game and still hold the wheel and control the brakes along with the second most powerful army in the world
May 28, 2013 at 9:55 PM
More insanity.
Britsh woman arrested for carrying British flag in …
… Britain.
Guess it becomes soon illegal to sing “God save the queen” because it might offend atheists. No, just forgot that atheists are not murdering or threatening anybody. So that won’t happen.
May 28, 2013 at 10:07 PM
At last. A voice of sanity. The one and only Pat Condell.