Radicals: 'MI5 tried to recruit me'
Radicals are considered useful to the security services, they have unique access to groups considered potentially dangerous and can inform on them.
One 25-year-old British Muslim told Catrin Nye that MI5 had tried to recruit him to inform on his community. He says it happened three years ago after he had taken part in a convoy to Gaza and a subsequent trip to Turkey.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said at first the men said they were community cohesion officers, then: "Slowly one of them decided to show me a badge, that he was actually MI5.
"They were saying 'you don't have to do anything extraordinary, all you have to do is live in the community the way you are doing, just go the mosque and if anyone is doing anything you think is suspicious then you can tell us about that,'" he said.
The interview was part of a series of reports by Catrin Nye about radicals.
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