"No evidence" that MI5 officer in abuse of Binyam Mohamed - sports journalist worked

According to MI5's CEO, Jonathan Evans, the threat level has increased despite the authoritarian taken photo: AP

He said "the decision, the case against the officer known was excited as" witness"drop" Jonathan Evans, the Director-General of MI5

The officer by a lengthy two year investigation and Mr Evans added: "I regret that he had this long and has to endure tough process."

He asked the officer "dedicated officials to protect has worked for many years to the people of this country from terrorism with skill and courage."

Kier Starmer QC, said Director of public prosecutions that there be insufficient evidence of witness B for each offence to follow from an interview conducted while he held in detention in Pakistan on 17 May 2002 he was with Mr Mohamed.

Mr Mohamed, an Ethiopian refugee claimed worked as a janitor at a mosque in West London, MI5 worked in his treatment after he tried was arrested in Pakistan, to leave the country with a false passport.

Mr Mohamed had claimed that witness, an experienced officer knew used the name "John", the Americans planned that after Morocco, the officer send it, because told him if he offered him a cup of tea: "where are you going need a lot of sugar."

But the officer said a court hearing in July 2008: "I said he was Mohamed, help us and the US authorities will decide itself to helfen.Werden what to do with it and very highly this depends on its degree of cooperation."

Mr Mohamed was "extraordinary rendition" Morocco where he was allegedly tortured with a razor blade and then Bagram in Afghanistan land subject to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

MI5 has admitted feeding questions to the CIA after, to Morocco took He entertains you didn't know where he was held.

However, a decision by the Court went years two ago which role the MI5 said "goes well beyond the one audience or witness to the alleged misconduct."

Detectives from Scotland Yard's specialist crime Directorate are still a wider investigation into MI5 and a separate study followed a MI6 officer.

The Crown Prosecution Service said: "We are not in a position to release more information about this point because the wider investigation into other potential criminal behavior from statements made by Mr Mohamed in interviews with the police still in progress."

The Americans believed Mr Mohamed had for a training camp in Afghanistan, attended lectures of Osama bin Laden and was on his way to the United States, where he planned to launch a terrorist attack on apartment building.

He was released from Guantánamo in February last year and received compensation adopted that worth up to £ 1 m in an out of court settlement with the Government this week.

The case of witness B was called for the first time on the Attorney General in October 2008 by Jacqui Smith, then the Interior Ministers to determine whether an investigation was appropriate and the police launched an investigation in March last year.

Tim Cooke Hurle, an investigator for the legal charity reprieve, said: "We welcome the news that more comprehensive studies in the abuse of Binyam Mohamed and others follow the police.""The investigation instead of scape Goating frontline officers must focus on the chain of command, approved complicity of the British security and intelligence services, torture may have to ensure that it never happened."

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