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Cameron Says Changes Needed in MI5 Following Rigby's Death

© Sputnik / Sergei Guneev / Go to the mediabankThe British intelligence could not prevent Lee Rigby's murder last year by an Islamist-linked attacker, UK Prime Minister Cameron told the British parliament. He added the country will allocate over $203 million to fight terrorism.
The British intelligence could not prevent Lee Rigby's murder last year by an Islamist-linked attacker, UK Prime Minister Cameron told the British parliament. He added the country will allocate over $203 million to fight terrorism. - Sputnik International
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The British intelligence could not prevent Lee Rigby's murder last year by an Islamist-linked attacker, UK Prime Minister Cameron told the British parliament. He added the country will allocate over $203 million to fight terrorism.

MOSCOW, November 25 (Sputnik) — UK Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to introduce changes to the work of British intelligence services in the wake of soldier Lee Rigby's brutal killing in London last year, but said secret services could not have prevented his murder.

"I don't want anyone to be in any doubt that there are lessons to be learned and things that need to change," Cameron told the British parliament on Tuesday.

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Cameron pointed out "four broad areas" where changes need to be made: delays in the process of investigating potential terrorists, identifying and forestalling so-called "lone wolf" terrorists, responsibilities of internet companies, and foreign fighters traveling abroad for "terrorist purposes."

Cameron added that over the next two years the UK will provide an additional 130 million of pounds (over $203 million) to its security services in order to enhance the "ability to monitor and disrupt these 'self-starting' terrorists."

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Cameron's speech came after the parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee released a report on Tuesday that said the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby could not have been averted despite his murderers being implicated in seven other instances.

"The Committee does not consider that, given what the agencies knew at the time, they were in a position to prevent the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby," the prime minister stressed.

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Cameron cited a passage from the Committee's report wherein it praised the contribution that UK secret services had made in protecting the country from terrorists.

"It is greatly to the agencies' credit that they have protected the UK from a number of terrorist plots in recent years… at least four serious plots have been foiled this year alone," he said.

In 2013, two young men ran British soldier Lee Rigby down with a car and then hacked him to death on a London street in broad daylight. Although one of the attackers had links with al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, the incident did not appear to have been planned in advance.

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