Report: Al Qaeda Spies Believed to Have Infiltrated British Police Force
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Four British police officers are under surveillance after being identified as possible Al Qaeda spies, it is being reported.
MI5 — Britain's equivalent to the CIA — discovered that the so-called "sleepers" — or agents under deep cover — were planted to keep Al Qaeda abreast of anti-terror raids planned by London's Metropolitan Police, According to the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper.
Investigators are said to be closing in on the agents — believed to be of Asian descent and living in London — only in recent weeks. The suspects are said to have links to Islamic extremists in Britain and Al Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Mail reported.
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The police officers — still on active duty — were identified during an investigation into police force infiltration which has been going on since the July 2005 London bombings, the Mail reported.
MI5 agents are watching the four suspects — who work at different police stations around London — and gathering evidence needed to make arrests.
Click here to read the full report in the U.K.'s Daily Mail.