Warning to UK on its 'open door to fanatics': Russian government says MI5 should watch 'extremist Islamic' exiles from the country

The lessons from the Boston marathon bombing is that MI5 should play far closer attention to these immigrants, some who have been admitted as asylum-seekers, and are seen as enemies of Vladimir Putin, said security specialist Igor Korotchenko. He claimed an FBI 'failure' to heed Russian secret services warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev could be repeated in Britain where intelligence co-operation with Moscow has been curtailed due to the diplomatic dispute over the 2006 'murder' of Alexander Litvinenko in London.

'It was a professional failure by American counter-intelligence,' said Korotchenko, who is also editor in chief of The National Defence journal in Moscow, and an advisor to military chiefs.

'The question we should ask America is why are they not co-operating as much as the Russian secret services want them to on matters of terrorism.'

The same threat applies to Britain, he said, 'which has been willingly accepting terrorists and extremists from the North Caucasus. This is despite the fact that four telecommunications workers from Britain were beheaded in 1998. He singled out Britain’s 'mistake' in giving asylum to Akhmed Zakayev, 53 year old prime minister of the independent Chechen government in exile who is labelled a terrorist by Moscow, but stressed others had also received a safe haven in London.

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