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MI5 is understood to have unmasked al-Qaeda sympathisers who joined its ranks during a recruitment drive aimed at young British Muslims, following the London bombings. At least three Metropolitan Police officers have also been investigated over visits they made to Pakistan, according to the Association of Muslim Police. **** This month, a former employee at America's biggest nuclear power plant was charged with taking access codes and layout plans to Iran. **** Mohammed Alavi, 49, a US citizen, is accused of downloading sensitive information about Palos Verde Nuclear Generation Station while on a visit to Teheran. He denies wrongdoing but could face up to two years in prison if convicted.

Global leaders of al-Qaeda have called on the organisation's followers in Western countries to adopt tactics that include the infiltration of key industries, known in security circles as the critical national infrastructure. A tactical manual published in 2004, The Management of Savagery by Abu Bakr Naji, urges al-Qaeda supporters to "infiltrate the police forces, the armies, the different political parties, the newspapers, the Islamic groups, the petroleum companies, private security companies, sensitive civil institutions".

The senator and his pals have, in the past, asserted that defending ourselves has only made them mad…has only made things worse. I say it has brought things into the light…for those with the guts to see. The dark evil intentions of the enemy are real and have been escalating for decades. So I repeat, you can run, senator, but you cannot hide!

Read the story, “Al-Qaeda supporters working at strategic sites” by Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph.