UK Daily Mail
Tuesday, Sept 30, 2008

Police are investigating the eBay auction of a digital camera said to have contained MI6 images of terror suspects.

Suspects’ faces, names and fingerprints, as well as snaps of rocket launchers and missiles, were discovered by an online bidder who bought the camera for £17, it was reported.

The 28-year-old only found the images when he downloaded his own recent holiday snaps from the Nikon CoolPix.

He told police and was shocked when Special Branch officers arrived at his home in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, days later to seize the camera.

Officers are said to have made five visits to his home in the last week to quiz him and his family.

The Foreign Office said today: ‘We can confirm a police investigation is under way.’
But a spokeswoman refused to comment on claims that the camera was sold by an MI6 agent.

Among the images which are reported to have been found on the camera is a ‘top secret’ document giving details of the encrypted computer system used by MI6’s agents in the field.
The Sun reports that some of the material relates to 46-year-old Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a high-ranking al Qaeda officer captured by the CIA in 2007.