Britain's New MI5 Chief Announced

Photo: Andrew Parker Is Named As MI5 Director General

Spy Who Foiled Jet Bomb Plot To Be Britain's Intelligence Chief -- Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A British counterspy who helped to thwart an al Qaeda plot to blow up planes with explosives hidden in soft drink bottles and led the response to the 2005 London transport bombings will be the new head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency, the U.K. government said on Thursday.

Andrew Parker has three decades' experience at the Security Service, known as MI5, countering Islamist militants, violent Irish republicans and organized criminals. He has been deputy chief since 2007, and once served as a British security liaison in the United States.

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