Ok, this is probably too obvious for government work. However, if “intelligence” knows who the 25 “trainees” are and will be monitoring them upon their return, why not just terminate them on sight ?
For that matter, if they’re running training camps in Yemen why are these camps not becoming closely acquainted with our air strike capability ?
I don’t have the answer for you, sir.
I’m not with the government — I’m a housewife.
Only way the Brits are going to know who's in the support teams is to let the "trainees" return to contact them.
Leastways that's the theory.
In reality the AlQaida planners in Yemen have already laid down the orders in discussion boards on the internet. All the "trainees" are going to do is direct the support team members to those sites.
The system is pretty much a knock-off of the old "orders of the day" code books ~ Every day you'd check out a new booklet (a sheet cut into 4 pieces and bound) that had quick conversion tables. You'd hand that back in to the Crypto clerk the next day and he'd drop them in the burn bag. There were also weekly code books, and "other stuff".
The system works, kind of, but AlQaida has been forced to deliver its messages in the open ~ the deal is they have thousands of sites so higher levels of intelligence have to tap into all of them and interpolate the material.
The code address for 9/11 was GREEN GREEN BROKAW. A net search for just that phrase would take you to a website on a server in the Detroit suburbs. There was an advertising section ~ there you could find flying schools that would teach you to fly large commercial aircraft ~ or agricultural pesticide sprayers.
Rent a room in Boca Raton. Visit North Carolina university towns or Northern Virginia, or New Jersey, and so on.
Truly interesting site.
Indeed. Hunt them down and "disappear" them.