UK WILL SHARE PERSONAL INFO ON 1000 MOSLEM STUDENTS WITH CIA

Posted By on April 1st, 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7543267/Details-of-British-Muslim-students-could-be-given-to-CIA.html
Details of British Muslim students could be given to CIA
Personal details of almost 1,000 British Muslim students could be placed on US terror watch lists because of the police investigation into the Detroit bomb.
By Alastair Jamieson
Names, email and home addresses of members of the Islamic Society at the University College London (UCL) were handed over to detectives investigating the alleged attack on an aircraft by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as it landed in Detroit on Christmas Day.

Abdulmutallab studied engineering at university in 2005/08, and was president of the UCL Islamic Society in 2006/07.

Names and email addresses of all members of the UCL Islamic Society and Royal Free and UCL Medical Islamic Society between September 2005 and June 2009 were handed over to police by the university’s student union, according to a report in The Independent.

Police were then given telephone numbers and home addresses by the UCL Registry.

The newspaper said the information had been given to the CIA, and that the homes of more than 50 of the students have been visited by police officers, but nobody has been arrested.

Some of the students on the list were not at UCL at the same time as Abdulmutallab and many had never met him.

The newspaper said Mojeed Adams-Mogaji, the current president of the UCL Islamic Society, was told by police the personal details would be kept for seven years and would be shared with other intelligence agencies “if requested”.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said he did not know whether the personal details had been passed on to foreign intelligence services and that the way data was used was “an operational decision”.

A statement added: “We have been careful to ensure that all inquiries and information gathered is treated sensitively.”

Earlier this month the government admitted Special Branch counter-terrorism officers are being stationed in universities at risk of being targeted by extremists.

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