Posted on 03/09/2008 1:33:13 PM PDT by jdm
According to a new report out of London, British domestic intelligence service MI-5 has begun investigating four potential al-Qaeda sleeper agents in high positions with Scotland Yard. The four men from southwest Asia have had access to very sensitive information on national-security efforts, including raids on suspected terrorist cells. MI-5 now suspects that they have kept AQ in the loop on British intel initiatives:
All four are understood to be Asians living in London and are feared to have links both with Islamic extremists in Britain and worldwide terror groups - including al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
MI5 chiefs reportedly believe the suspected moles have been planted as sleepers - agents under deep cover - to keep al-Qaeda informed of anti-terror raids planned by London’s Metropolitan Police.
They are said to fear the four could have already accessed sensitive information about secret operations to root out terror cells planning further attacks in the UK.
This would not be Britain’s first infiltration by terrorists. The IRA had a good deal of success in infiltrating the police forces as well, especially in the 1970s when the Troubles were particularly violent. Given London’s large population of Pakistanis, Afghans, and others from southwest Asia, a few malevolent individuals can use a little preparation to enter the employment of the police even in ancillary positions, such as the unsuccessful infiltrator Omar Altimimi, who applied for a job as a cleaner at one police station.
The net result will be that more suspicion will fall on police and security officials with varied ethnic backgrounds. Most of that will be misdirected — but it also plays into the hands of AQ. Unfair accusations of disloyalty will encourage isolation and mistrust, and that will make it easier for Islamists to recruit the disaffected. It’s a win-win for Osama bin Laden; he gets to either have his moles get him information, or as a fall-back, he gets to stir up animosity and hatred and drive a wedge in the population of one of the West’s capitals.
Yay! for Political Correctness.
If they’re muslims, they’re moles!
Diversity is our Strength.
... right? At least thats what we’re told.
Either the slimes are already captured and flipped or there’s also a mole in MI-5 who is leaking this info to warn the conspirators or pure BS.
Well sure they do! That is what multiculturalism and diversity are all about. Sharing.
Rushing recruitment and selection during a crisis can cause this little problem. So can politically correctness in deterring the investigation of problems with certain types of agents.
Sure! We can learn sooooooooooooooooo much from other cultures! For instance, we just learned that other cultures don't give a spit for western culture and are working feverishly to dismantle it! Hooray!!
Of course. PC has let them in, and let them do their work unchallenged.
I wonder who the hell is the idiot who thinks hiring a Muslim in England against radical Muslims. Remember, those in power are smarter than us, the unwashed. Actually, it is the Muslims who are the unwashed !@!
On Tuesday, 13 November 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice announced, "Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States."
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