WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (IslamOnline) - In a damning revelation, the British daily, The Guardian, reported Sunday that M15 (British domestic intelligence) and police had ordered an Algerian asylum seeker to illegally break into British mosques in order to gather information on alleged Muslim "militants".
In a detailed interview, Reda Hassaine, a former Algerian journalist, gave a detailed description of how M15 and the Special Branch (the police agency responsible for gathering information on suspected terrorists) blackmailed him into carrying out burglaries in several mosques by threatening him with expulsion if he refused.
Agents from British security forces also allegedly guided him into how to defraud the British welfare system in order to compensate the meager earnings he was provided with from them.
During his two-year stint as an informer, Hassaine, 37, was ordered to steal scores of documents from senior imams in north London, the paper reported.
Some of the documents taken were reportedly communiqués from foreign "extremist" groups while others were totally harmless, stated the report.
Hassaine also told his handlers "about a dirty tricks campaign against Muslim militants in London being run by the French intelligence service, the DGSE."
The French campaign also involved breaking into mosques and other buildings. He was allegedly advised to help the French.
Hasseine's application for asylum was eventually refused even though he now gets daily death threats and has been badly beaten up by enraged Muslims.
