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Britain charges two with breaking secrets act { November 18 2005 }

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Last Update: Friday, November 18, 2005. 6:30am (AEDT)
Britain charges two with breaking secrets act

British police say they have charged two men with breaking the UK's Official Secrets Act by leaking details of a government document relating to international matters.

David Keogh, 49, who was working as a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is accused of sending a confidential government file to Leo O'Connor, 42, who was then working as a researcher for a member of parliament, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says.

The BBC says the case related to a leaked memo from Britain's Foreign Office which criticised heavy-handed tactics by US military in Iraq and soldiers abuse of prisoners.

Details of the memo were published last May in the Sunday Times newspaper.

It read: "Heavy-handed US military tactics in Fallujah and Najaf some weeks ago have fuelled both Sunni and Shiite opposition to the coalition and lost us much public support inside Iraq".

"The scandal of the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib (prison) has sapped the moral authority of the coalition, inside Iraq and internationally," the memo read.

The charges against the men only say both have "made a damaging disclosure of a document relating to international relations".

The offence is said to have taken place between April 16 and May 28, 2004.

Neither the police or CPS provided further details.

Both men, arrested in Northampton in central England, have been bailed pending a hearing at London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court on November 29.

- Reuters



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