Operation Rich Picture
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Rich Picture is the codename given to a covert joint Security Service (MI5) and Police project, which is 'intended to provide a wider understanding of the context of terrorist activity and radicalisation in this country. Under this programme information is collected on issues related to violent extremist activity in local communities.'[1]
The Independent reported that the instigation of Project Rich Picture had led the Security Services (MI5) and the Police to investigate up to '8,000 suspected al-Qa'ida sympathisers' in the UK.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009, HM Government, p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.
- ↑ MI5 conducts secret inquiry into 8,000 al-Qa'ida 'sympathisers' The Independent, 3 July 2006], accessed 15.03.2010
