"Stand down USA!" "Stand down USA!" "Stand down USA!" "We believe them as war criminals." "The reality is that this is going to be their grave in Afghanistan." "If they were wise they would pull their troops out." "There is no issue of 7/7, 9/11, except that these were reactionary events." "Allahu Akbar!" "Why is Islam the biggest religion in the world?" "Why is Islam the fastest growing religion in the world?" "Wake yourselves up from your degenerate lifestyles." "We're against the whole nation, the coalition of people who are killing Muslims, attacking Muslims ideologically and physically, that's what we're against." "I want you to tell me what you can hear." "I want you to tell me if you can't hear the cries of our brothers and sisters." "You can find the bodies of their families in the ruins of their homes!" "And I want you to tell me if you can't hear the cries of the orphans of Gaza as the missiles of the Jews rain down on them." "British troops burn in hell." "British troops burn in hell." "British troops burn in hell." "British troops burn in hell." "British troops burn in hell." "You slags!" "You filthy bastards, just fuck off home, just fuck off home, you dirty..." "British troops burn in hell." "British troops burn in hell." "Burn, burn, burn in hell." "Think it might be a Passat." "Is Nas coming in or what?" "Hmmm, after the doctor, yeah." "Have you seen what they've done to Perry Road?" "Where the hell is that?" "Off Mile End innit." "The turning before the cinema." "Oh, yeah." "They've made it one way, bruv." "I don't see the point of it." "That's stupid, man." "I'm worried they're gonna pull you out." "I'm sure they will." "Are you close?" "I think so." "I just don't have enough evidence yet." "Has Jalil said anything?" "Nah." "Nasir?" "No." "Majid?" "Uh-uh." "Did you hear the name Seif Omar?" "Seif who?" "Omar." "Nah." "Has he asked you to do anything?" "No one's told me anything." "British troops burn in hell!" "British troops burn in hell!" "British troops burn in hell!" "Someone's been smoking in there." "You can't smell that, can you?" "I don't smell anything." "Jalil was in." "I thought he'd given up." "Yeah, he's started again." "Right man, right see you then." "See you, Jamal, right, in a bit." "So what's happening?" "So we got two drivers taking the minibuses to Croydon on the Monday, the brother's going to put everyone up for the night, you know, so we can get an early start." "Asif's doing the cooking." "Asif?" "He never volunteered!" "Yeah, soon as the cooking was mentioned the room went dead, no one was putting their hand up." "Yeah, yeah." "Usual thing, innit." "You didn't volunteer then?" "Yeah, well, I'm not even here, I'm off, I'm gone." "I'm going to a wedding in Yemen on the Thursday before, why was I going to put my hand up?" "I'm not even here, I'm off, I'm gone." "I'm going to a wedding in Yemen on the Thursday before, why was I going to put my hand up?" "I'm going to a wedding in Yemen on the Thursday before, why was I going to put my hand up?" "The Thursday before." "I'm not even here, I'm off, I'm gone." "I'm going to a wedding in Yemen on the Thursday before, why was I going to put my hand up?" "Going to a wedding in Yemen..." "In Yemen." "I want to know where Waleed is going in Yemen." "We need to renegotiate my price." "Your price is dependent on the quality of the information." "How do you think my community would feel if they were to learn that I was helping the Americans by giving you information?" "So this is why you have to pay me more money." "I pay you for information, Mister Akmal." "He's going to Zabid." "To do what?" "To a wedding." "A cousin's wedding." "Which cousin?" "Usman Tariq." "He's telling people he's going to a wedding." "Whose wedding?" "Usman Tariq?" "A cousin living in Zabid." "No." "It's what he's telling people." "Usman would not invite Waleed to his wedding." "Are you sure?" "Absolutely." "This is a feud of many years." "He would kill Waleed rather than invite him." "Is something happening?" "I need your judgment." "I think I might be seeing something that isn't there." "What do you think?" "I wouldn't be talking to you if I didn't have a grave anxiety." "I have not met another man who has developed such single-minded hatred for those who are not of the same belief as himself." "But do you think he will cross that line..." "Take action?" "Yeah, I believe this." "And, God willing, you will stop him." "Daddy!" "Do you want some ice cream?" "Mummy hasn't given me an ice cream for ages." "Right, let's get some." "When are you coming home?" "He started crawling along, slowly and steadily towards the distant finishing line." "Before long, the rabbit was near the end." ""Ha!" "That tortoise is too slow to keep up with me." ""There's no chance of me losing." ""I don't even need to try and I'll still win."" "He casually sauntered over to a tree." ""In fact, I think I'll take a nap." ""When I wake up the tortoise will still be way back there," ""so I'll just cross the line and win."" "So the rabbit fell asleep, while the tortoise kept crawling onwards, slow and steady." "So, he's not going to a wedding?" "He's saying he is but he's not." "No." "And you believe he's going to visit Seif Omar?" "The wedding's in Zabid." "Intelligence has Seif Omar, in Zabid." "It's just too much of a coincidence." "What are you asking of them?" "For him to be tracked in Yemen." "There's too much going on in other places right now and resources for an enterprise like that..." "I am certain he's making his move." "They won't buy it, Edward." "It's how it goes sometimes." "Yeah, I know." "You should come for a drink with us later." "Yeah." "I'll tell her you're here." "Thank you." "Edward for you." "Right." "She's ready to see you now." "Thank you." "Edward, sit down." "Thank you." "I understand your frustration and prioritising is a ghastly word, it's absolutely the worst part of our work but it has to be done." "I just feel like the resources would have been made available to me here and at MI6 if I was being believed." "It's my understanding that the issue is the weakness of the evidence you are presenting." "Except this has happened to me before." "What has?" "My judgment being questioned." "On what occasion?" "It's just something I've been aware of." "And I feel like I'm being..." "Overlooked?" "Yes." "Why do you feel that?" "Well, I've seen others who came in at the same time as me," "I've seen them get promotion ahead of me." "All of them?" "Well, enough of them." "And I feel like I'm being..." "I feel like I'm trailing behind a little." "At least it feels like it." "I see." "Why do you think that might be?" "I don't know." "But you believe that there is a reason beyond your ability and professionalism?" "Yes." "I'm not aware of anything untoward, any reality, that is causing you to feel that." "What's holding back your case, in this instance, is the lack of evidence." "And only that." "OK?" "OK." "Thank you." "See you later." "God bless mate, see you soon, yeah." "Thanks, bye." "I found an e-mail last night, sent on November 11th 2011." "Sent to him from an address known to be used by Seif Omar." "It reads, "The bed linen will be ready for delivery in five weeks."" "Linen is, I believe, their code word for ricin." "Ricin?" "Yes." "Do you have intelligence on that?" "He's been on our radar for a few years now, there's been nothing beyond the usual until I picked up an e-mail four weeks ago." "And it details a method of making ricin by freeze drying and reusing domestic aerosol cans with nitrous oxide propellant." "You misunderstand me - intelligence that this is code?" "Well, erm, I'm working off circumstantial evidence and, to some extent, character profile." "It's great for umbrella tips on escalators and putting on someone's wilted spinach, but ricin plots usually end in a puff of nothing." "500 micrograms is enough to kill you - and you can put that on a pinhead - so I'd say it's a pretty good weapon of terror." "Is there any intelligence of a plot?" "He's telling people that he's travelling to Yemen this coming Thursday for a cousin's wedding in Zabid." "I know this to be a lie - he is travelling to Zabid, but not for a wedding." "I also know that Seif Omar is, at this moment, in Zabid." "But... but it's not intelligence of an actual plot underway, is it?" "It's supposition, not intelligence." "I know Waleed Ahmed inside out." "I've analysed his speeches, I know how he thinks." "He's trained as a pharmacist." "I know Seif Omar's intentions and I can see no other reason why these two would be meeting." "What is it exactly that you're asking of us?" "Well, he's travelling to Yemen on Thursday, so we do have the option of arresting him at the airport." "However, as we do not have enough intelligence to detain him or charge him, we are asking that you keep a 24-hour watch on him once he lands in Yemen." "So your instinct is telling you that a plot is now underway?" "I believe there's a compelling case that a plot is now underway, yes." "OK." "Let's do it." "Thank you." "Gareth, will you speak to your people in Yemen?" "Yeah." "Well done." "Thanks." "We'll see what he gets up to once he's out there." "And then this kid takes the ticket straight out of my hand, and when I try to grab it back, he starts shouting," ""This man's trying to kidnap me," so everyone stops." "I panic and I let him go and he's gone..." "Hi." "Hi." "Thomas?" "'They've lost him." "'He was in Zabid." "They trailed him to Al Hudaydah 'and then they lost him.'" "Al Hudaydah?" "'It's on the Red Sea." "Across from Eritea." "A dead end.'" "What was he doing there?" "'Staying with a cousin who is saying that Waleed left in the 'morning to visit someone else, but he didn't know who.'" "Did they lose him or did he lose them?" "'No idea." "They're not going to tell us that they 'fell asleep watching the house." "And the cousin isn't going to 'tell the PSO where he was going, even if he was just going shopping." "'Anyway, the sum of it is that he's gone and we don't know where.'" "Hold on, hold on." "My guess is that he has taken a boat across the Red Sea and then travelled by land to Cairo." "There's a connection between castor oil production, ricin and a man called Ismail Yassin." "'Who?" "'" "Ismail Yassin." "He lives in Cairo." "There's a connection between Yassin, Seif Omar and Seif Omar and Waleed." "Find Yassin and I bet we'll find Waleed." "Morning." "Good morning, Edward." "I hear you're going to Cairo." "Yeah." "They've picked him up out there." "Arrested with three others on suspicion of manufacturing ricin at a farm on the outskirts." "Well done." "Thank you." "It's a good opportunity for you." "'Please mind the doors.'" "'Doors closing.'" "Tony Coveney." "Edward Ekubru." "Nice to meet you." "I'm sorry I wasn't able to come and greet you." "That's all right." "We've got a lot on." "Coffee or are you ready to see him now?" " Let's see him now." " I'll brief you inside." "All right." "Shukran..." "OK, this is the situation - we've two farmers in custody who have confessed to giving castor bean waste to a third man, Ismail Yassin, he's also in custody and he's confessed handing the stuff to your guy, Waleed." "But we have a problem... all we have are confessions." "They're coming from their interrogations by the State Security Service." "Right?" "Since those interrogations, all three have retracted their statements." "It doesn't mean to say the confessions weren't true, they're just not reliable as the truth." "But the ricin's been found?" "No." "I mean, the evidence of it." "They've been to the farm where it's supposed to have been produced." "There's nothing." "There's very good intelligence on this, you know." "I'm just relaying the situation as we have it..." "I mean, it also lines up with what those three men have admitted to." "Yes, that kind of corroboration is easily obtained by leading questions." "All we have are a couple of farmers and a Cairo shopkeeper who'll say anything to stop having their nails pulled, so to speak." "Excuse me." "Sorry." "How long have you been in the Service?" "14 years." "Really?" "Before 9/11?" "Yeah." "From university?" "Yeah." "Which one?" "Warwick." "How about you?" "I...joined after Oxford." "OK, let's go." "Waleed Ahmed?" "Are you from the Embassy?" "Yes." "Why has it taken you this long to see me?" "All last night and all day today, I've been telling them," ""I'm British." "I want to speak to my Embassy." I am British." "Well, we're here now." "This is wrong." "This is degrading." "I'm being kept here like a rat." "A British citizen treated like a rat." "My name's Tom..." "Why?" "My name is Tom and this is Daniel." "So you got second names, then?" "We do." "You can't be from the Embassy, you don't speak Arabic." "We work in the British Nationals Department." "Right, so you'd better start dealing with my case then." "And your case is?" "My case is simple." "Right, I'm with my friends in their home, they invite me for dinner, right, we're eating and talking and then all these security guys bust in." "They got guns, batons, they force us into a van and bring us here." "That's illegal detention." "When we get here, we're put into cells and just left there for the night, 20 people shitting in a bucket, no water, nothing, then I'm taken out of my cell and" "I'm questioned, but I don't know what they are going on about," "I don't have any answers for them because I don't understand the questions." "So what have I done?" "I want to know because I haven't done anything." "I was just sitting and chatting with my mates." "What have I done?" "You are being detained because you are suspected of being a co-conspirator." "Of what?" "On suspicion of conspiring to commit acts of terror in the United Kingdom." "You got to be joking me." "You have to be." "So, the men who did this to me last night, yeah?" "They were acting for you then, were they?" "What are you going to do about it?" "How are you saying that happened?" "You live here and you don't know they torture people?" "Are you making an allegation?" "So you're saying you don't believe me?" "I didn't say that." "Right, I was taken to a room where there was an interrogator from the State Security Service." "I couldn't answer his questions, that's what happened to me." "I'm a British citizen and it is your job to look after my constitutional rights." "You will have your rights respected Mr Ahmed, but you also have to answer our questions." "How do you know Ismail Yassin?" "Now you need to start respecting my rights... now." "I'll spell it out for you, "Guidance to intelligence officers" ""on the detention and interviewing of detainees overseas " ""You are instructed to investigate allegations of torture against UK citizens." Am I right?" "You got to bring complaints from those citizens to the attention of the country in which a detainee is tortured..." "Why do you know all this when you claim you only came here to visit friends?" "You don't think we get harassed by people like you whenever we want to go anywhere?" "This is just what I tell my brothers - know your rights." "Memorise that shit." "Rule number three says you gotta withdraw from the interview if you know that torture or inhuman or degrading treatment has been conducted." "If you refuse to carry out your statutory duty towards me, I'll complain to my Member of Parliament, to my lawyer, to the media, to Amnesty, to Liberty and to Human Rights Watch, I will set you alight." "Mr Ahmed, do not threaten us." "You're in a very serious situation." "No, I'm not, you are." "The world has changed for people like you now." "I'm an innocent man and people are watching you." "We will withdraw from this interview until we've investigated your allegations exactly, according to the rules." "You may be surprised to learn that we do work by the rules here." "Yeah, good." "Don't think that this means that you'll be able to control things." "You're in detention upon our instruction and will remain so until we have concluded our business with you." "Is that clear?" "This is ridiculous." "How can we not interview him?" "We play it by the rules, refer it to London." "We don't have the time for that." "We don't have a choice." "If my intelligence is right, we could have ricin on the way to the UK, right now." "Don't you get it?" "There is torture all over this." "It's lethal." "That's why it has to go to London." "I want to see the officer in charge of the investigation." "Come on down, sir." "It's about..." "Yes, OK." "My colleague from the Embassy." "This is Commandant El Halwani." "Thanks for your time." "I only have two moments." "We appreciate that." "What do you want to know?" "We've just come from speaking with Waleed Ahmed." "He claims that he was tortured last night." "Is that true?" "No, no, it is not." "He showed us marks on his body." "Yes, he was injured, but it was resisting arrest." "I see." "One of my men was careless with him." "But I can assure you, that he has the same injuries as he had when he came in." "I saw the injuries myself." "So are you still investigating the case against him?" "Yes, yes, of course." "And have you found any evidence of ricin production?" "No, there is no evidence of it at all." "Are you still looking?" "Listen, I already told this to your Embassy." "These men make castor oil." "They grow the plants, they make the oil, they sell it." "This is all they do." "We have intelligence sources that suggest..." "If all we see is castor oil, what do you want me to do?" "Manufacture the ricin myself?" "No, of course not." "But the farmers have admitted it." "Yes, they have admitted it to the State Security Service." "But they have denied it to me." "I keep Mr Ahmed here only because your Embassy asks me to." "Personally I would let him go." "Are we OK?" "Yes." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Believe me, nothing's changed in this country." "Our man's been tortured." "We must report it to London." "Erm, I'm afraid I can't do dinner tonight." "I would love to but..." "That's OK." "Who was Waleed's interrogator?" "I don't have his name." "Can you get it for me because I need to speak to him?" "We should speak to London first." "I just want to set up a meeting." "It's easier if we do everything through the Embassy." "Yeah, but I don't want to get mired in bureaucracy." "Things have to be done properly." "I wouldn't think of doing them improperly." "Of course not, I wasn't implying that." "I'll speak to London as soon as I get back." "They'll take it straight to the Home Office." "I am sorry about dinner and the hotel." "The restaurant's not bad, though." "Good." "Shukran." "My concern is that this won't be given the attention it needs." "Judith will be talking to Peter this evening but that's as far as we can take it tonight." "Yeah, but..." "You will have to discuss it with the Home Office and then they will have to take it on to the Home Secretary." "If things don't move quickly then..." "Edward, if no ricin has been found and these confessions are now dubious, then you will just have to sit tight and wait." "Thank you." "Yet those who survived now get only a fr..." "Hello?" "Lucy, it's Edward." "I need a favour." "Can you find me the name and number of the man from the State Security Service who interrogated Waleed?" "Don't you think this should go through Thomas?" "I need you to find out in such a way that the Embassy here won't know." "This should go through Thomas." "Right now they're putting a block on everything and I need to speak to him as soon as possible." "Edward, do you realise what you are asking me to do?" "Lucy, please." "Yeah?" "It's Edward." "Are we getting anywhere?" "We should have some news by end of play." "What does that mean?" "It's going to take a while to go up the chain." "Look, Edward, I have to take this call, OK?" "Was Waleed Ahmed tortured?" "No, he was not." "I have seen him and he appears to have been tortured." "If he is claiming that, then he is lying." "How else would he have got his injuries?" "Resisting arrest." "Beaten by a stick." "Taken by the throat." "But you'll never get to the truth of it." "The police will deny everything." "So, you can interrogate him yourselves." "Even by your own rules." "How about that Yassin and the farmers' claim that they were tortured - is that true?" "Yes." "They were tortured?" "Yes." "By you?" "Yes." "Personally?" "Yes." "Absolutely." "Then that causes me a major problem, Colonel." "But you have the truth." "So you're certain that they were manufacturing ricin from castor beans?" "Yes, absolutely." "And manufacturing it for Waleed Ahmed?" "Absolutely. 100%." "There is no question." "But no evidence of it was found on the farm." "Who says this?" "The investigating officer." "The police would not even have bothered to search for it." "They are only concerned with what happens here." "This is Asmiel Yassin." "Does he speak any English?" "No." "Did you ask him what Waleed has done with the ricin?" "He doesn't know." "But we can deduce that the ricin has left my country and gone to your country." "That it was packaged off by your man two days ago." "Two days ago?" "What makes you think that?" "That is when he finished his business here." "We can presume it." "Did you tell my Embassy that?" "Yes." "These are your farmers." "It is unfortunate for them." "They had no idea what they were doing." "My problem is I can't talk to Waleed until I get clearance from our Minister in London." "That is a madness." "Yes." "In this situation, yes." "The ricin is somewhere in your country right now as we speak." "You must find it in any way you can." "And I can help you." "I can't allow that." "You have a problem that your Embassy does not believe you." "I do not think that you can see the wood for the trees." "No interview with your man will ever reveal what he is planning for you." "Without us there is only chaos." "Civilisation is this thin, the smallest veneer." "And you and me, we are this veneer, just about holding everything together." "Just about!" "You can refuse my offer and leave and the next thing you will know," "I'll be telling you where that ricin is in the UK." "And that's it." "You don't even have to say yes to me." "Just leave now." "I can't do that." "Call me." "Call me any time." "And you will find I always keep to my word." "Do we follow instructions, or do we do what is right?" "This will always be the question for us." "Think about it." "Why wasn't I told of the report that the ricin had been sent to the UK two days ago?" "The information that we received..." "In your reports, have you expressed doubt about my case?" "My reports reflect the situation as I see it." "Take me seriously when I tell you that my intelligence on Waleed Ahmed is good." "I am prepared to believe anything but I need evidence." "And everything that I've seen so far is tenuous." "Which is why I need to interview him!" "And I am pushing for that." "Not hard enough." "Waleed is lying to us." "He is lying because that ricin is already on its way to its target and he is using our regulations to buy him the time he needs to distribute it." "We've had this conversation." "Your request is being dealt with at the highest level." "In the meantime, we wait." "Hello." "Thomas, it's Edward." "The Embassy have information that the ricin left Egypt two days ago." "Yes, I have that report on my desk." "Why have I only just found out?" "I understand that it is less than conclusive." "Well, that's why I need to speak to Waleed today, not tomorrow." "I hear what you're saying, Edward, but your man at the Embassy there is right." "No evidence was found on the farm, which makes it extremely difficult for us to proceed." "You're just going to have to wait." "Goodbye." "Is this it?" "Yeah." "Where did you find them, exactly?" "In a ditch on the farm that you told me had already been searched." "I need them analysed right away." "The more reliable option would be for us to fly them to the UK." "Will they go tonight?" "I'll do it right away." "Leave it with me." "Where's your mate?" "He's not here." "Sit down." "Leave us, please." "You help me, I help you." "Good." "What's your connection to Ismail Yassin?" "Have you got permission to interview me?" "Yes, I do." "I want that confirmed." "I just confirmed it." "I want to know your connection to Ismail Yassin." "I don't know him." "Yes, you do." "You were arrested in his best friend's house." " So?" "Does that mean..." " You came here to meet him." "I don't know him." "I know you did." "I told you, I don't know him." "He manufactured ricin for you for the purpose of committing acts of terror in the UK." "Manufactured what?" "Ricin." "For you." "For the purpose of..." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, what you saying?" "Ricin?" "What the fuck's that?" " How the fuck would I know how to do that?" " Who's telling you this?" "Two farmers working for Yassin have already admitted it." "I've never heard of Ismail Yassin." "Yassin himself has admitted it." "This is mad." "This is all mad." "Do you know Seif Omar?" "No." "You exchange emails with him." "I have them." "I can show them to you." "Do you know Seif Omar?" "No." "But you know who he is." "That he's active in al-Dhahab." "You exchange emails with him." "So that's why I'm in here then?" "No, you're in here because..." "So, wait, does emailing him make me a terrorist then?" "By association?" "No, it doesn't." "So, why are you asking me about him then?" "You're going to stay here until you tell me why you came to Cairo." "Let's get one thing straight - nothing else matters to me except Allah's law." "Which you wish to impose on the world by force." "Force?" "Force is your word." "Or would that thought make me a terrorist?" "No." "Not that alone." "So, does wanting something to change make me guilty of terrorism?" "No, it doesn't." "What about the invasion of Iraq?" "Does that make everyone who voted Labour and Conservative a terrorist?" "There's an email that was..." "I'm British, I'm allowed to think what I like." "There's an email that was sent..." "Me and you, we've both got the same rights." "An email was sent to you by Seif Omar in which he wrote," ""The bed linen will be ready for delivery in five weeks."" "Yeah, and it was delivered." "What was delivered?" "The linen." ""Linen" is your code word for ricin." "What the f...?" "What the..." "There is no code!" "This is all wrong!" "How can you even think that?" "So, is that why I'm in here then?" "A linen order for my wife?" "You know, I thought you were mental before, but this?" "So, I'm in here, I'm in an Egyptian police cell because I ordered bed linen for my wife?" "Mr Ahmed, we know it's code for ricin." "The sheets arrived at my home!" "Four double sheets and six pillow cases!" "You can buy bed sheets on any High Street in Britain!" "Yeah, I know I can, but I don't." "I buy from people who I want to have my money." "Is that a crime, too?" "Not to buy everything on the British High Street?" "So, this is where you got the idea to have me arrested here then?" "Seif Omar exports bed linen!" "He's also in a chain of command that starts with al-Dhahab." "I can't believe I'm hearing this." "Where have you sent the ricin?" "Does everyone who mentions a linen order in their email get arrested, or is it just Muslims?" "You're not getting out of here until you tell me where you have sent that ricin." "This is fucked up." "I've done nothing wrong." "What can I admit to?" "There's nothing I can admit to." "Your training as a chemist has come in useful, hasn't it?" "For putting ricin into aerosol cans for delivery to the UK." "One year's training as a chemist because my dad wanted me to go into business with him - that's your evidence?" "I've plenty of evidence - years of it - of you justifying acts of terrorism in your preaching and lectures..." "I've got evidence of Bush, Blair, Cameron and Obama... celebrating the bombings of New York, London, Paris... preaching terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan..." "Madrid, Nairobi, Abuja... ordering drone attacks on villages in Pakistan..." "Every act of murder in the name of Islam has been praised and celebrated by you." "I'm British and the rules are..." "I know the rules!" "How have you got this so wrong?" "You follow Arshad Rafiq - why?" "Because he teaches the proper and only way to live." "You mean to hate our country?" "Because he teaches his followers to kill until the streets of England run red with blood, and you preach his message." "He lights the way of the Prophet." "Peace be upon him." "And you're following his orders." "And you're following the orders of Blair and Cameron." "They do not preach hatred." "All we say is people should stand up and defend themselves against tyranny, like they are doing all over the Arab states, and like they will do in our country one day." "Your and my country is not a tyranny." "Are you serious?" "Britain's a lapdog of the Americans in their crusade against Muslims, so finally people are taking action." " And that's what you're doing here, taking action?" " No." "And it's what you're doing here in Cairo!" "No, I bought bed linen for my wife!" "Why do you hate us so much?" "Where do you want me to start?" "What is it about us that makes you want to kill us?" "I just want a peaceful, Islamic revolution, but are you going to allow that?" "No." "So you're going to poison our air?" "For fuck's sake man, I just bought some bed linen for my wife." "Come on, what is it about us that makes you hate us so much?" "I just want my country to be healed." "Healed?" "Yeah, you deaf or something?" "Yeah, healed." "You know, what I can't stand about you, is that you have had every opportunity handed to you on a plate." "Free schools, free health care, free libraries, state handouts, local government grants, freedom to say and do what you want, opportunity to go to university, freedom to pray in Muslim centres, built for you by others, for free." "All that freedom, all that privilege, and all you want to do is vomit on us." "Don't talk to me about healed." "You want to destroy us!" "No, it's you who wants to destroy freedom." "The freedom to believe what's in our hearts." "You know what?" "I'm going to make sure you never get that freedom and privilege in my country again." "You bring shame on your parents." "D..." "Don't talk about my parents." " Good people who worked hard..." " Shut the fuck up about my parents." "And gave you opportunities - you have spat in their faces!" "Shut the fuck up!" "Sit down." "Sit down!" "You've conspired with al-Dhahab, and I have the whole chain of command." "Ethics are different now." "You can't do a Guantanamo anymore." "You can't detain me forever and ever and deny me my rights." "Those days are gone." "I've done nothing wrong." "You won't find any evidence against me, which means I've got the whole British legal system on my side." "Bad things are coming to you, and you're going to deserve them all." "Nah..." "I win this one." "That's how this goes down." "Between me and you, I win." "What's a nigger doing in MI5 anyway?" "What did you call me?" "You heard me, you fucking kaffir." "I said, how come they let a nigger in the establishment?" "Because I love my country, you fucking piece of shit!" "It's already out there." "In the UK." "Ready to go." "Ready to go how?" "Ready to go how?" "If you don't tell me how..." "But that might not be true." "It might not be anywhere." "It might be all in your imagination." "That's what terror is." "You're just going to have to wait and see." "Why'd you tell me you didn't know Seif Omar, when actually you went to Yemen to meet him?" "No comment." "'Why did Seif Omar receive instructions 'on how to put ricin into aerosol cans?" "'" "No comment." "'Why did Ismail Yassin take you to a farm 'where they grow castor beans for ricin production?" "'" "No... comment." "'Yup?" "'" "Tony, any news from London?" "'Look, um, I'm afraid the aerosol cans didn't quite make the plane.'" "What?" "'But they'll be on the first plane out tomorrow.'" "So the bag's still there, just..." "just sitting there?" "'The driver got stuck in traffic and we just missed it, but as I say...'" "Waleed sent the ricin back to the UK two days ago, that means it's already at his address." "'That is why they're going on the first plane out tomorrow.'" "Fuck!" "Colonel Hazem?" "'Mr Daniel!" "You have a request for me?" "'" "Yes." "'I will call you later.'" "Thank you." "Good morning, Mr Daniel!" "How are you?" "Did you sleep?" "We have results." "Coffee?" "Er..." "Er, no, I'm OK." "Don't worry, he's a friend of mine." "Mr Waleed Ahmed has confessed to delivering ricin back to your country in 12 aerosol cans." "Enough to kill many hundreds of people." "Where'd he send them?" "Saeed what?" "What's that say?" ""Bari."" "Saeed Bari." "Mm-hm." "Derby." "A city in the UK." "Yeah." "Mm." "Right." "Um..." "What happened to him?" "Is it visual, what you did?" "No." "More..." "Well, how is he now?" "Do we care?" "I mean, will he need treatment?" "What can I expect?" "You can expect an angry man." "'Hello?" "'" "Thomas." "I've got an address." " Tony." " 'Where are you?" "'" "In a taxi." "'We've got a problem." "Meet me at El-Nasr police station right away.'" "Can you tell us what happened?" "Just, please get me a doctor." "We will certainly get you a doctor, yes." "Now, now, please, just get me one now." "We will, yeah." "Can you tell us what happened?" "Please just get me out of here?" "Just get me out." "The doctor will decide whether to transfer you to a hospital." "Can you tell me what happened?" "Mr Ahmed." "I can assure you we will carry out a thorough investigation." "Start with him." "I want to know what happened." "Yesterday... he threatened me, grabbed my neck, pushed me to the floor." "Did you see him yesterday?" "Yes." "But I did not cause these injuries, Mr Ahmed." "He hates me." "Right, I'm going to call a doctor." "And I'd like to speak to him for a moment on my own." "Bad things are coming to you." "Have you been in contact with Colonel Hazem?" "Yes." "You knew about this?" "I knew about his interrogation, yes." "And, as a result, I've got the address where he sent the ricin." "It's an address in Derby and it's being dealt with as we speak." "This better work out for you." "Otherwise we are absolutely and totally fucked." "Thanks." "I have some good news for you." "One can has tested positive for ricin." "Well done." "I think you might just have got away with it." "The question is whether we'll get there in time." "Thanks for your help." "Edward." "Got a minute?" "Yeah." "The address in Derby is a false one." "The house belongs to a retired railway worker called Alfred Charlton and his disabled wife, Margaret." "Right." "Bad news, I'm sorry." "But we do have a positive result on the ricin." "Yes, we do." "Judith, er, wants to see you." "OK." "She's waiting now." "What, right now?" "She's in her office." "Is there anything I should know?" "I don't think so." "Does she know the address turned out to be a false one?" " Yes." " Well, how much else does she know?" "She's been fully briefed at this end." "I'll report back to you, then, shall I?" "Yes." "Do that." "She's ready to see you." "Hello, Edward." "Please sit down." "This was taken by an Egyptian blogger with inside information, who's been tracking a notorious colonel, in the State Security Service, by the name of Hazem." "You appear to have been caught up in this expose." "Accompanying the photograph is a story on a British spy complicit in Colonel Hazem's torture of a British man in a Cairo jail." "The information is very detailed and the photograph irrefutable." "Tomorrow, this will be everywhere." "And of course it is only a matter of time, hours, before you will be personally identified." "Is it true?" "Did you ask this colonel to torture Mr Waleed Ahmed?" "Yes, I did." "What else could I have done, weighing up the illegality against the consequences of doing nothing?" "I have always understood that we work with politically unacceptable regimes if it means that we are safeguarding our people from attack at home." "It's what you've said to me yourself." "But we cannot break the regulations set by Parliament, and you have." "The regulations were not working." "I am in the Service to protect my fellow citizens, not to protect the rights of someone who's trying to kill us!" "Edward, we're not here to discuss your ethics." "We are here because you have been exposed to public scrutiny, and, more importantly, because you have exposed the Service to public scrutiny." "And so you see, now, it is all about damage limitation." "We cannot raise the defence that what you did was to protect the country because we cannot publicly admit that ricin is at large - it would cause countrywide panic." "Neither can we claim that Waleed Ahmed is a terrorist because we cannot produce sufficient evidence to charge him." "And what we have got against him has been rendered useless by his torture." "Mr Waleed Ahmed has been devastatingly cunning and you have been devastatingly careless." "For all this, we still could have protected you - we would have protected you - but you got found out." "And that leaves us unable to either protect you or to defend your conduct." "The director general has no option but to present this to the Home Secretary as a case of one bad apple." "The consequences of regarding yourself as a persecuted outsider - your tendency to operate alone and your somewhat obsessive behaviour ' have left you in an untenable situation and I have no choice but to suspend you until further notice." "And it is only fair to warn you that in this period of suspension, it would be wise for you to consider where else you might wish to continue your career." "Everything I've done has been for my country and for the people of my country." "I had no choice." "OK?" "My client is here to remind the Security Services of this country that he is a citizen of this country." "And no more or less British than themselves, or anyone born here and to whom this is home." "That he cannot visit family in Yemen and visit friends in Egypt on his way home without being detained and subject to torture by the very people who exist to protect him brings shame upon us all." "My client asks that you now respect his privacy and allow him to return to his community and to his family." "Thank you."