{"id":3025,"date":"2008-01-21T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/21\/muslim-troops-on-alert-after-laptop-theft\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:31:09","slug":"muslim-troops-on-alert-after-laptop-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/21\/muslim-troops-on-alert-after-laptop-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim troops on alert after laptop theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>MUSLIM military personnel and recruits have been put on high alert after it emerged their personal details are included on a Ministry of Defence laptop stolen in Birmingham.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The details of more than 600,000 are stored on the laptop which was stolen from a Royal Navy officer\u2019s car in Birmingham last week. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ministry of Defence (MOD) officials are said to be increasingly concerned with regards to the details of a number of Muslim personnel in light of an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a serving British Muslim solider in Birmingham which was foiled last year, the Times Newspaper reported. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anybody accessing the information will have at hand the names, home addresses, bank and passport details, as well as National Insurance and National Health Service numbers.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The MOD are said to be contacting those who details were stored on the computer deemed to be at risk should the information fall into the wrong hands. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThere\u2019s a rumpus going on inside the MoD about the threat to Muslim recruits after this theft,\u201d the Times quoted a military insider as saying. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThey are very concerned about the Birmingham connection and of the alleged Birmingham plot last year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThey are terribly sensitive about this. They are trawling to find out how many Muslim applicants are on the database.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Defence Secretary Des Browne is expected to make a statement to MPs today over the stolen laptop. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSLIM military personnel and recruits have been put on high alert after it emerged their personal details are included on a Ministry of Defence laptop stolen in Birmingham. &#13; The details of more than 600,000 are stored on the laptop which was stolen from a Royal Navy officer\u2019s car in Birmingham last week. &#13; Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}