He strongly defended Britain’s intelligence services in a speech to a defense think tank, “It is only thanks to the dedication, and in many cases the brilliance, of our intelligence officers that we have succeeded to detect and contain these threats.” Britain’s intelligence services have been criticized for allowing Emwazi to slip their net and travel to Syria, even though he had been on their radar for years.
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