Secret al-Qaida, Iraq files found on British train

Associated Press ^ | June 11, 2008 | Paisley Dodds

[Free ThinkerNY]

LONDON (AP) -- Secret government documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were left on a commuter train, prompting a major police investigation into the latest in a series of embarrassing security breaches, British officials said Wednesday.

The documents belonged to a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office and were found by a passenger on a London commuter train Tuesday. The envelope was then passed to the British Broadcasting Corp.

[Paladin2]

A BBC double agent?

[allmost]

[driftdiver]

Handed to the BBC? Might as well have handed them to Osama.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Bin Laden is their program director.

[Darth Republican]

Does anyone in Britain have any faith in any government office other than the Ministry of Silly Walks?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Brilliant.

[xkaydet65]

Does the Bishop of East Anglia count?

[Churchillspirit]

Hope the passenger who gave these documents to the BBC is identified, charged and imprisoned - along with the idiot who left them on the train.

[RDTF]

bump

[Mercia]

I’m amazed that its felt necessary to carry around hard copies of very sensitive stuff.

Do you just ‘leave’ the documents on the train, when they are probably the only reason you are on the train in the first place? I don’t think so, it smacks of a deliberate act to me, and odd that the doc’s should go straight to the BBC.

I might start trawling the main lines to see what else they might be leaving on there seats. It also might be the best place for foreign intelligence agents to start...

Doh!