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Russian-speaking man accused of ‘hostile reconnaissance’ for TV station terror attack told police he was sightseeing in London Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev told security guards outside Iran International's former headquarters in Chiswick that he was in the area to visit a friend and to go sightseeing in London.
(Sky News) A Russian-speaking man accused of conducting hostile reconnaissance for a terrorist attack on a dissident Iranian TV station in West London told police he was on a weekend sightseeing visit in the capital, a court has heard. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, […]
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Isis: From Cardiff to the caliphate
(BBC) In 2013, Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan left their lives in Cardiff to fight for Islamic State in Syria. Three months later Nasser’s younger brother Aseel also went out to join them. I went to sixth-form college with both Nasser and […]
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Ex-soldier accused of spying for Iran ‘gathered names of special forces’
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of passing secret information to Iran gathered the names of service personnel, including those in special forces, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, is separately accused of escaping from Wandsworth Prison last year by strapping […]