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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/in_call_for_donations_al_qaeda.php
(E-PRISM.org)
“In “Call for Donations,” Al Qaeda Admits Financial Stress”
By Andrew Cochran
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “On November 20, I posted on the success of the U.S.-led Iraq Threat Finance Cell in disrupting Al Qaeda in Iraq’s financial network. Reuben Paz, one of the leading experts in the CT community and the founder and Director of the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) at the GLORIA Center in Israel, has written a follow-up to that post for us, with an analysis of Al Qaeda’s admission of financial distress. I am pleased to run Mr. Paz’s analysis below in its entirety with my gratitude:”
November 26, 2007 11:13 AM
LONDON - The nation's secret services want to recruit more non-white and Muslim agents, a top official said Monday, dismissing the "myth" of British spies resembling 007 agent James Bond.
In unprecedented BBC interviews with the MI5 and MI6 domestic and foreign intelligence agencies, two British Asian staff also denied that Muslims were specific targets. The head of recruitment at the MI6, interviewed in the security service's London headquarters, stressed the need for its foreign staff to come from a wider range of ethnic backgrounds.
"We need people to deploy into a range of situations around the world and people who have a different ethnicity can often go places and do things and meet people that those from a white background can't," he told the BBC. "There are some places that white males can't go," added the official, identified only as Mark.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071126/wl_uk_afp/britainsecurityasiamuslimsspies
Egyptian police find land mines, bombs buried in Sinai desert
November 26, 2007
EL ARISH, Egypt: Police have found more than a 100 land mines and nine bombs hidden in the northern Sinai desert, a security officer said Monday.
Authorities believe Islamic militants had buried the explosives, but no militants were in the vicinity when the police, acting on a tip, uncovered the cache, said the northern Sinai security official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the land mines and bombs had been stashed in sacks buried a few meters (yards) in soil about 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the west of the Egyptian-Israeli border.
Islamic militants have carried out three major bomb attacks in the Sinai since October 2004. The blasts in the resorts of Sharm el-Sheik, Taba and Dahab killed 125 people. The government blamed the attacks on a local Islamic militant group, which appears to have been inspired by al-Qaida ideology.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/26/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Explosives.php