How Secunder Kermani became the face of the BBC’s Afghanistan coverage

How Secunder Kermani became the face of the BBC’s Afghanistan coverage

Six years ago, officers attached to Thames Valley Police put at risk the professional reputation of one of the BBC’s most promising journalists, Secunder Kermani, by using powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 to seize his laptop. The South East Counter Terrorism Unit was probing the Newsnight reporter’s groundbreaking series of interviews with Western jihadis fighting with the newly formed Islamic State (IS). One British-born fanatic, calling him…