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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/61428/Prison-files-are-sold-in-charity-shop

UK NEWS
“PRISON FILES ARE SOLD IN CHARITY SHOP”

Sunday September 14,2008
By Ted Jeory and David Jarvis

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A BUNGLING prison official left a secret file from Belmarsh high security prison in a charity shop.

The plastic folder containing the home addresses, telephone numbers and pager numbers of senior prison officials was sold to a customer who later handed the file to the Sunday Express.

The file lists the 16 members of Belmarsh Internal Monitoring Board, the body that oversees jail conditions and the welfare of inmates.

Board chairman David Pinchin’s details are included as are the addresses and mobile phone numbers of four magistrates who also sit on the board.

The list even pinpoints the distance each member’s home is from the prison.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Earlier this month a computer drive containing 5,000 personnel files, including those of prison officers, was lost by a company working on the national identity card scheme.

Last month the ministry lost a memory stick containing the details of all the 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.

The Home Office has admitted losing 43 laptop computers and 94 mobile phones over the past three years.”

389 posted on September 16, 2008 1:19:15 AM PDT by Cindy


134 posted on 09/16/2008 1:23:59 AM PDT by Cindy
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October 30, 2008, 2:51 pm

http://raffaellopantucci.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/operation-praline-the-realization-of-al-suris-nizam-la-tanzim/

SNIPPET: “This is a distinctly more academic article I have written for the Perspectives on Terrorism journal that looks in detail at a recent network of plots. This group seems to show a potentially very interesting set of developments, and I think the information about them is not yet all out, as there would seem to be a number of loose ends - and other cases in the pipeline.”

http://documents.scribd.com/docs/11ah8kug6gxq945gkg6s.pdf

“Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri’s Nizam, la Tanzim?”
By Raffaello Pantucci

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “This article will attempt to show how a recent plot in the United Kingdom, known by its police codename Operation Praline[1], and the broader international conspiracy that supported the group responsible may constitute an organic evolution of terrorist networks towards al-Qaeda “architect” Abu Musab al-Suri’s nizam la tanzim – “a system, not secret organization.”[2] This is not to conclude that Aabid Khan and his broader network were necessarily purposefully moulding themselves in this direction – as the author has not seen evidence supporting this assertion – but rather this article attempts to show how al-Suri’s framework for global jihad offers a good prism through which to analyse this group since they would appear to have developed in broad accordance with al-Suri’s principles, whether wittingly or no.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Tsouli as the Agitation Unit

Remaining at this level of analysis, it is therefore useful to consider Younis Tsouli and his cell (known by their police codename “Mazhar”), as the Secret Agitation Unit to which al-Suri refers. From his home in Shepherds Bush, Tsouli and his co-conspirators al-Daour and Waseem Mughal (some of whom had never met in person before they were arrested), acted as a global media cell for al-Qaeda, and in particular al-Qaeda in Iraq. They provided websites, hacking information and an ability for extremist material to be distributed and hidden online, translation, as well as helping design logos, magazines and other supportive materials for al-Qaeda.

While it may have been Tsouli who first provided police with an avenue into the network, it seems subsequently clear that his role in the network was focused on the internet and communications. In this way, he can be described as fulfilling the role of al-Suri’s Secret Agitation Unit, fulfilling its mission “to spread the Call and redistribute its literature, its research studies, and its various programmes by clandestine means.”[9] Tsouli helped complete their mission of “translating the works and communiqués of the Resistance” both by directly translating things himself, but also by cracking Arabic language software and placing it in online forums for public use by others.”

SNIPPET: “Raffaello Pantucci is a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, UK.”


135 posted on 11/25/2008 2:02:30 AM PST by Cindy
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