From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/11/snapshot-special-branch-terror-suspect
It felt like a minor terror alert. Four security guards were watching me, whispering into microphones on their collars. A plainclothes police officer had just covered my camera lens, mentioned the words "hostile reconnaissance" and told me I would be followed around the city if I moved.
Two uniformed officers were on their way to stop and search me under section 44 of the Terrorism Act, he said. Special Branch, the police counter-terrorism unit linked to the secret services, had been informed.
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