British secret agent was al-Qaeda mole who cracked new 'underpants' bomb plot

Telegraph UK ^

[Perdogg]

The man, who risked his life to get close to al-Qaeda’s master bomb-maker in the Yemen, is of Saudi origin but holds a British passport, sources told the Daily Telegraph.

MI5 recruited the agent for an operation in which the CIA planned to target the bomb-maker with a missile from an unmanned drone.

[BuffaloJack]

Why is this information available.
Nobody NEEDED to know it.
All it will do is compromise future inteligence operatives.

[Blado]

Did Barry need another success in the War on Terror to get more votes? Kind of a “wag the bomb” gambit?

[brivette]

based on the heading, sounds like someone cracked the under pants case.......

[Mouton]

“but holds a British passport”

Maybe His Excellency on his way to Afghanistan last week stopped over to get this case rolling along. Wow, the Brits have their 007s, we have our Agent Zero.

[FES0844]

Waiting for his picture & address to be posted.

[Travis McGee]

In Obama’s calculation, a two-point bump up in the polls for being “tough on terrorism” is worth the lives of dozens of agents-in-place.

[Dr. Ursus]

A British Muslim fighting on behalf of our President!(snort)

[bgill]

Smells like another fake out from this admin.

[rottndog]

The British security services are thought to be unhappy that their role has become known, fearing it may jeopardise the recruitment of future agents...

YA THINK???


The operation was originally made public in a leak to the US news agency the Associated Press....The Daily Telegraph reported MI6’s involvement on Tuesday but the key role they played was confirmed only on Thursday from a source briefed by Saudi Arabia counter-terrorism officials, who spoke to CNN.

Someone who was briefed by SA officials spilled the beans to CNN? Whoever leaked the info needs to be exposed and permanently shut up.....unless maybe this was part of psy-ops against AQ????

[tbw2]

They’ve done all but give his real name and home address. With all the leaked info, anyone in the organization can hunt him down and kill him. And given the ineptness or treason of this leak, we probably don’t even have protection around the person who gave us this intel.

[skeeter]

Wow, does Obama have british agents reporting to him as well?

[Junior_G]

Maybe in the next leak they’ll give us his name and address.