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Individuals who traveled in Pakistan and received terrorist training there or in Afghanistan are a central part of the challenge of Islamist terrorism in Britain. Because al-Qaeda'sstrategy relies partly on using European nationals to carry outattacks against the United States, the rise of Islamist terrorismin Britain and Europe poses a serious danger to the U.S. and itsallies in Europe and around the world.

ROY Greenslade has denied passing sensitive information to the IRA while working as a journalist.

Former newspaper boss Roy Greenslade has denied passing sensitive information to the IRA while a senior member of staff at the Sunday Times. Journalist David Leppard, who worked with him at the newspaper, has expressed fears that the 74-year-old shared unpublished details of security stories with his republican pals. But ex-Daily Mirror editor Greenslade, who counts senior Sinn Fein figure Pat Doherty among his closest friends, has rejected this, saying: "I categorically deny passing any inform...

We trace the connections between the terrorist group and a prominent journalist 5 March 2021 • 8:47pm Roy Greenslade has revealed that while working at the heart of Fleet Street he had been secretly devoted to the paramilitary cause The IRA weapons dump at a remote spot in the Welsh countryside was thought to be intended for a Christmas bombing campaign on the British mainland. In the autumn of 1989 the Sunday Times had heard that police were keeping watch on the secret cache but, with the a...