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Secret terror files left on train
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Police are investigating a “serious” security breach after a civil servant lost top-secret documents containing the latest intelligence on al-Qaeda.
The unnamed Cabinet Office employee apparently breached strict security rules when he left the papers on the seat of a train.
A fellow passenger spotted the envelope containing the files and gave it to the BBC, who handed them to the police.
The official was later suspended from his job, the Cabinet Office announced.
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One, on Iraq’s security forces, was commissioned by the Ministry of Defence. According to the BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, it included a top-secret and in some places “damning” assessment of Iraq’s security forces,
The other document, reportedly entitled ‘Al-Qaeda Vulnerabilities’, was commissioned jointly by the Foreign Office and the Home Office.
Just seven pages long but classified as “UK Top Secret”, this latest intelligence assessment on al-Qaeda is so sensitive that every document is numbered and marked “for UK/US/Canadian and Australian eyes only”, according to our correspondent.
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