Known terrorist Ahmed Ressam is displayed on a giant monitor at the Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center in Norwalk, Calif. on Thursday, July 27, 2006. in Norwalk, Calif. Hoping to better secure Southern California against attacks, federal and local law enforcement agencies have banded together to create a first of its kind command center to improve intelligence sharing on terrorist threats. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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In North Ireland we had too many agencies without a unified command structure.
There was Army Intelligence, RUC Intelligence, MI5, MI6, special Branch Irish and English section and a host of other units.
The problem was of turf who was responsible for what, and there were cases of operations being run by one agency get entangled in a operation run by another agency.
And when the terrorists started to use drug money to fund there operations then it involved all the drug agencies.
Which added to the confusion.