Secret terror files LEAKED by CAGE - ISIS jihadis can now learn how to avoid capture
CONTROVERSIAL campaign group CAGE has been accused of indirectly aiding Islamic State militants after it leaked training material from the Government’s counter-terrorism programme Prevent.
The Government says the PREVENT programme is helping tackle radicalisation
Videos and software used in anti-radicalisation workshops were released by the organisation “in the interest of transparency”.
It made public a host of information which Express.co.uk has chosen not to publish.
Among the cache is presentation material detailing how to spot a terrorist, and policy documents on how best to counter radicalised youngsters.
Ibrahim Mohamoud, communications officer for the group, said CAGE had made the information public to allow "academics, researchers, campaigners, journalists and students to research and analyse PREVENT training".
But critics warn the information could help extremists slip through the net by evading security services.
Mohammed Emwazi - otherwise known as Jihadi John
David Cameron has defended the strategy
Asim Qureshi of campaign group Cage has criticised PREVENT
UKIP, which has long railed against CAGE’s work, said the group was a "threat to national security because of the attitude they take towards people who wish us harm”.
Defence spokesman Mike Hookem said: "Leaking sensitive information isn't big or clever. It's stupid and dangerous and shows where their loyalties lie.
"Their website says they 'Empower communities impacted by the War on Terror'; by definition this will include terrorists.
"The Government needs to take a tough line on these people.
"There is nothing 'transparent' about leaking this information. [Indirectly] they could be accused of giving information to terrorists.”
Jihadi John: Road to radicalisation
CAGE says it made the documents public to raise awareness of the scheme, which it claims causes alienation in the Muslim community.
It has branded efforts by the Government to stop the radicalisation of young people as “naive and dangerous”.The organisation, which has been labelled a terror apologist over its links to Jihadi John, said there was now a growing list of senior public figures who have spoken out against the Home Office strategy.
CAGE defended the release of the information today with Mr Mohamoud saying: “The assumption that public sector workers can be trained in a few hours on a complex issue such as understanding the pathways to politically motivated violence is naive and dangerous.
“As CAGE predicted more than a year ago, implementation of PREVENT is leading to over reporting and several high profile cases of overreach.
“PREVENT only adds to the alienation being fed by anti Muslim attacks by politicians and right wing commentators.”
The Home Office has yet to comment on the leak.
CAGE sparked outrage earlier this year when they described British terrorist Mohammed Emwazi - better known as Jihadi John - as a "beautiful young man".
The group was in contact several years ago with the Kuwaiti-born Londoner at a time when he was on the radar of Britain's intelligence services over signs of radicalisation.
Since he was identified a year ago as the man in a black balaclava who appears in ISIS beheading videos, CAGE members have blamed the intelligence services for radicalising him.