MI5 under fresh scrutiny after latest terror attack
The dust has not yet fully settled on yesterday evening’s terror attack in Reading and the British security service (MI5) has already come under scrutiny over the incident.
The BBC is quoting security sources as claiming that the suspect, Libyan national Khairi Saadallah, was known to MI5.
According to these security sources, Saadallah, who was granted asylum in the UK, had come to MI5’s attention following a tip off that he harbored intentions to travel to Syria, presumably for terrorist purposes.
Saadallah, 25, attacked and killed three people with a knife in Forbury Gardens in central Reading at 7pm on Saturday, 20 June.
He injured a further three persons, two of whom have since been discharged from hospital. The third injured person is not believed to have sustained life threatening injuries.
Thames Valley Police said this morning the attack is being treated as terrorism and that Counter Terrorism Policing South East is in charge of the investigation.
MI5 is believed to have briefly investigated the Libyan suspect before swiftly concluding he did not pose a “genuine threat” or an “immediate risk”.
Crucially the security service failed to open a case file on Saadallah which could have made him a target for future investigation.
More broadly, MI5 and the wider British security apparatus are likely to come under fire for reducing the UK’s official terrorism threat level from “severe” to “substantial” in November 2019, thus potentially lowering defenses against attackers.
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