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Police recruit internet café owners to catch terrorists

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Police are recruiting internet café owners to spy on their customers as part of an anti-terrorism campaign.

Officers are training them in how to identify terror suspects downloading extremist material from the web so they can report them to police.

The voluntary scheme being trialled in Harrow, Camden and Westminster, London, aims to catch terrorists using the anonymity of public places to research and plan attacks.

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