M15 INFILTRATED BY AL-QAEDA ("Bad News" Biased Headline)

Sunday Mirror (U.K.) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge ^ | 14 May 2006 | Vincent Moss

[Stultis]

[May 14, 2006]

M15 INFILTRATED BY AL-QAEDA

(Sunday Mirror Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TERRORISTS from al-Qaeda have infiltrated Britain's security services, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.

Bosses at M15 believe they unwittingly recruited the Muslim extremists after the July 7 suicide bombings in London last year which killed 52 people.

They were signed up as part of a drive to find more Muslims and Arabic speakers to work as spies to help prevent future attacks by Osama bin Laden fantatics.

Spymasters found some of the agents in Britain's universities and colleges and persuaded them to pass on information about suspected terrorists.

But a senior ministerial source has told the Sunday Mirror: "The truth is that it has now been discovered that some of those people have strong links with al-Qaeda.

"There was always a risk that with such a speedy and widespread recruitment some would turn out to be bad eggs.

"But the recruitment has meant we are now in a much better position to stop al-Qaeda attacks than we have ever been before. Several planned attacks have already been stopped thanks to the high quality of our intelligence." But the disclosure that suspected terrorists have infiltrated the security services will be a further embarrassment to Government Ministers.

They came under ferocious pressure last week after an official report claimed MI5 had failed to follow up vital leads before the July 7 bombings.

The report from the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said greater coverage by M16 - Britain's overseas spies - in Pakistan and more manpower "might have alerted the agencies to the intentions of the July 7 group".

But MI5 director-general Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is masterminding a campaign to hire hundreds more intelligence officers to the service.

She is looking for IT experts, technicians and language specialists to help monitor "traffic" via emails and phone calls between al-Qaeda terror cells across the world.

MI5 is also offering pounds 27,000 a year for "mobile surveillance officers" to follow targets who are part of "national security investigations".

But the service warns that its strict vetting process means it takes up to eight months to consider applications.

The ISC report last week found that two of the July 7 bombers - Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - were known to the security services.

But they were not seen as a high priority and M15's manpower was diverted to investigate other suspects.

The pair were among the four suicide bombers who detonated their homemade devices on three Tube trains and a bus in the worst terrorist attack in British history.

SECRET HISTORY OF CENTURY OF SPYING

MI5 was founded in 1909, but its title then was the Home Section of the Secret Service Bureau.

IT wasn't until 1916 that it was called MI5, standing for Military Intelligence Section 5, although its official title is the Security Service.

MI5's primary role is to gather intelligence on those posing a threat to homeland security. MI6 keeps tabs on Britain's enemies abroad.

vincent.moss@mgn.co.uk

[Stultis]

Similar "bad news" spin recently has complained that MI5 has too many (some 900) domestic targets to track suspected of possible links to al Qaeda. MSM Catch-22: Too little intelligence = bad. Too much intelligence = bad. See also:

MI5 mission: impossible (radical Islam prevalent)  ^
	Posted by LSUfan On News/Activism ^ 05/14/2006 2:21:45 PM CDT · 15 replies · 253+ views The Telegraph ^ | 14 May 06 | Alasdair Palmer 'We will not stop them all." Eliza Manningham-Buller's frank admission that further attacks by Islamic extremists are unavoidable is alarming and depressing. Is that bleak assessment by the director general of MI5 simply a statement of an inescapable fact? Last week's report from the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) into the London terrorist bombings of 7/7 reaches the conclusion that it is.
900 terrorist suspects in Britain leave MI5 and police unable to cope ^
	Posted by SittinYonder On News/Activism ^ 05/11/2006 9:49:08 AM CDT · 28 replies · 487+ views The Scotsman ^ | Thu 11 May 2006 | JAMES KIRKUP THERE are now so many terror suspects in Britain that the police and security services are unable to monitor them all, counter-terrorist officials have warned. The Scotsman has learned that anti-terrorism police and MI5 have identified as many as 900 people in Britain whom they suspect could be linked to potential terrorist plots. The figure has more than trebled in the past five years, and represents a dramatic increase on a previously reported estimate which put the number of suspected extremists at 400. The terrorist threat facing the country is now said by Whitehall officials to be at least as...

[LSUfan]

We have seen similar things here unfortunately. The Wahhabis infiltrated our prison chaplain system and there were reports of Muslim FBI personnel (not special agents that I know of) expressing sympathy to radical Islam. Not sure where I read that, but I remember it.

[SandRat]

Hey!!! Go easy on MI5, AQ is just picking up where the Commies and Commie-Loving Poofs left off. < / historically accurate sarc

[Cobra64]

I guess Britain's MI5 has morphed into a military rifle, the M15.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I bet there are Al Qaeda sympathizers replete throughout European governments...and I wouldn't be surprised if they're in our government, too.

[Sender]

"I say, yes you there with the beheading poster."
"You appear to be Asian, ahem, if you know what I mean."
"I've a proposal for you and your lads. You see, we need Arabic translators so we will know what people like you are saying."
"You will? Oh, lovely then. Come round tomorrow morning. Splendid!"

[devolve]

 T H U N D E R B A L L 

[potlatch]

Just shows you can't trust any of them.

James Bond to the rescue!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Read Infiltration for the frightening story of how deeply Muslims have penetrated our our goverment, military and prison system. And the Bush administration is complicit.

[Lancey Howard]

SOP. "Unwittingly recruit" the enemy and then use them to disseminate inaccurate intel (disinformation) as they lead you to more bad guys. Oldest trick in the book.

[familyop]

"The name is Bond--Mohammed Bond!"

[Kozak]

Since 9/12 I've felt we need a massive program to educate non muslims in Arabic, just for this reason.

[Sender]

Yes we need a lot of certified-kufr Arabic speakers. I might have to look into an evening class for my own curiosity.

[Kozak]

Me too. I'm considering starting with the "Rosetta Stone" Arabic language software.