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Prime Minister David Cameron has attacked the U.S. based web companies on Tuesday over failure to track down terrorists to prevent Lee Rigby’s murder following a report that uncovered a message where an Islamic extremist contemplated the attack.
Fusilier Rigby was brutally murdered after being mown down by a car and then stabbed by muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwic, south east London last year.
An investigation by British Parliamentary watchdog, the Intelligence and Security Committee, have revealed the two men had been investigated seven times by different agencies including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ but were regarded as low-level threats.
It is also uncovered that MI5 cancelled surveillance of one Adebolajo just a month before the attack happened. MI5 failed to monitor Adebowale due to delayed paperwork problems until the day before murder.
U.K. parliamentary committee has told Adebowale had sent a message saying he wanted to “murder a soldier in the most graphic and emotive manner.” The committee has said that unnamed technology firm – which is not named for confidential and security reasons, never passed the sensitive communication over to police.
The long-awaited report published on 22 May, 2013, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has said that if an exchange between Adebowale and another extremist in December 2012 had been picked up, Adebowale would have become a top priority for the security services.
However, the report has largely cleared U.K. intelligence agencies of failing to stop the planned attack on the 25-year-old soldier, even though the suspects Adebowale and Adebolajo were the subject of multiple surveillance operations.
Mr Cameron has told of expecting Internet companies to give more assistance to security and intelligence agencies to prevent and tackle terrorist attacks.
While pledging for 130 million pounds ($200 million) to help disrupt terrorists, the Prime Minister has said in the House of Commons: “Their networks are being used to plot murder and mayhem; it is their social responsibility to act on this and we expect them to live up to that responsibility.”
ISC chairman, Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind has said: “It is quite clear that the one party that could have made a difference was the overseas-based Internet company on whose system this exchange took place.”
Mr Rifkind has added: “Internet companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo need to play their part in alerting authorities to people who may be terrorists.”
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