Civil servant suspended after leaving terror files on train

[12 June 2008]

The Cabinet Office has suspended its employee who lost top-secret documents on al-Queda and Iraq.

The Cabinet Office employee was questioned in an internal inquiry after the high-security papers were left on a Surrey-bound commuter train from Waterloo on Tuesday. A passenger noticed the envelope containing the files and gave it to the BBC, who then handed them over to the police. The two documents were assessments made by the government's Joint Intelligence Committee: one on Iraq's security forces and the other entitled ‘Al-Queda Vulnerabilities.' An inquiry is suspected to focus on the Cabinet Office and the security measures that allowed the top-secret information to leave a safe environment.

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