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Secretary Amber Rudd cited national security reasons for not
publishing the review that found a significant overseas funding for
some extremist organizations in the UK in a written statement to
Parliament on Wednesday.
“This
is because of the volume of personal information it contains and for
national security reasons,” she said.
Following
three recent deadly attacks in Britain, the government has been under
pressure to release the findings of the report, which was
commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015.
Meanwhile,
lawmaker Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party who has been
pressing the government to release the full report, said the
statement from Rudd was unacceptable.
"The
statement gives absolutely no clue as to which countries foreign
funding for extremism originates from - leaving the government open
to further allegations of refusing to expose the role of Saudi
Arabian money in terrorism in the UK," she said.
Last week, a
British think tank released the report, saying foreign funding for
extremism came from Persian Gulf countries, chief among them Saudi
Arabia.
The Henry
Jackson Society said in the report that since the 1960s, Saudi Arabia
has sponsored a multi-million dollar effort to export the Wahhabi
ideology across the Muslim world, including to Muslim communities in
the West.
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