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091015-N-8863V-280 RIVERSIDE, Calif., (Oct 15, 2009) Dr. Buzz Aldrin, left, Apollo 11 astronaut, signs autographs for school children as Brian Persons, executive director of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Dr. William Luebke, technical director of Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Corona Division, and Capt. Jay Kadowaki, commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona look on. Aldrin is participating in the 10th Science Technology Education Partnership (STEP) conference. STEP awarded NSWC Corona with the first STEP Award for Government Leadership in Science and Technology Education for reaching out to 40,000 students during the last 10 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Greg Vojtko/Released)
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UK spy chief: UK must work with other countries
Oct 16, 1:20 AM (ET)
LONDON (AP) - The head of Britain's domestic spy agency said Friday that Britain's security services try to make sure they do not collude in the torture or mistreatment of detainees by foreign governments, but acknowledged it was not possible to guarantee that it never happened.
Jonathan Evans, director-general of domestic security agency MI5, said that following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Britain had to work with other countries that had more experience dealing with al-Qaida related terrorism, even if those countries operated on different standards.
"Our intelligence resources were not adequate to the situation we faced and the root of the terrorist problem was in parts of the world where the standards and practices of the local security apparatus were very far removed from our own," he said.
"In my view we would have been derelict in our duty if we had not worked, circumspectly, with overseas liaisons who were in a position to provide intelligence that could safeguard this country from attack," he said.
Evans said Britain's security services "work hard to ensure that we do not collude in torture or mistreatment."
