article_snippet: MI5 has been condemned over MI5 handling of the case of bloodthirsty Islamist Jihadi John (pictured)
article_snippet: Yet in recent days The security and intelligence service has been ferociously attacked over The security and intelligence service handling of the case of the bloodthirsty Islamist Jihadi John, now unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, a computer graduate from the University of Westminster.
article_snippet: Much of this condemnation has focused on the revelation that, before he left to join the IS jihad in Syria, Emwazi was known to MI5 as an extremist and may even have had links to the 2005 London bombers.
article_snippet: But there have also been noisy complaints, widely relayed across the media, that it was MI5’s supposedly heavy-handed surveillance which drove Emwazi down the path to radicalism.
article_snippet: Spooking people like Emwazi is absolutely necessary.
article_snippet: people like Emwazi should feel people like Emwazi are being monitored.
article_snippet: There have also been noisy complaints that it was MI5’s supposedly heavy-handed surveillance which drove Emwazi down the path to radicalism - an attack which is both 'unfair and counter-productive' The drivel about Jihadi John was then reinforced by senior Tory MP David Davis on yesterdayQureshi’s Jeremy Vine programme on Radio Two.
article_snippet: But senior Tory MP David Davis repeated accusations senior Tory MP David Davis had already made in the Guardian (a paper which has already done deep damage to our national security by publishing intelligence documents leaked by US National Security Agency traitor Edward Snowden), that MI5 were guilty of ‘confusion of aims and ineffective tactics that leave known terrorists to carry out evil deeds and recruit more conspirators’.
article_snippet: In senior Tory MP David Davis ill-informed contribution, senior Tory MP David Davis further suggested that MI5 should simply arrest jihadis and bring jihadis to trial.
article_snippet: The only people who gain from it are the terrorists and The only people who gain from it supporters.
article_snippet: The attack on their work, delivered from the cosiness of media studios, represents little more than the politics of distraction, putting the blame for extremism on those who are trying to defend us, while letting off the zealots who are the real threat.
article_snippet: Of course, there have been disastrous failures, such as the 2005 London bombings, and, before this, a reluctance to recognise that Al Qaeda regarded the entire West as the enemy, not just the Middle East.
highlights_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi known as extremist before Mohammed Emwazi left to join the ISIS jihad .
  
highlights_snippet: Critics say MI5's heavy surveillance drove Mohammed Emwazi down path to radicalism .
  
highlights_snippet: But Prof Glees says spooking people like Mohammed Emwazi is 'absolutely necessary'
  The only people who gain from criticising MI5 are terrorists, Prof Glees claims .