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"During the 1990s, MI5 reduced its 'international terrorist' desk significantly. The then director general refused to apply the term "terrorists" to Islamic radicals whom other governments had told us were involved in terrorism. So, for instance, the Algerian radicals involved in bombing the Paris Metro, who settled in London, were not regarded as terrorists by MI5. They were seen as a French problem, not a problem for the UK.

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