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Jan 6th, 2009 at 10:53pm
 
CIA tracking 4000 UK terror suspects
Tim Shipman, Washington
January 5, 2009
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THE CIA has begun an unprecedented intelligence-gathering operation in Britain to help MI5 monitor 4000 terrorist suspects.

More than four out of 10 CIA operations to prevent attacks on US soil are now conducted against targets in Britain.

This has led to friction between British and American spies, with some US intelligence officers irritated that resources are being diverted to gather intelligence on suspects in their closest ally's backyard. British intelligence officers do not know the identity of all the CIA informers and are uneasy about some of the uses to which the intelligence has been put.

MI5 as a whole is glad of the help, however, and works closely with its sister service. US spies share information when it concerns security in Britain.

Intelligence from CIA informers is believed to have helped thwart more than one terrorist atrocity on British soil. Information passed on by a CIA source in Britain was also instrumental in locating Rashid Rauf, a British-born al-Qaeda operative killed by a US air strike in Pakistan on November 22.

A British official said: "There is a great deal of CIA activity inside the UK. The CIA has been given a free rein to raise, handle and process from intelligence sources inside the UK.

"In many cases we do not know who their assets are. Several of the recently foiled terrorist plots inside the UK were uncovered by informants run by US source handlers. We've been able to interdict these plots."

A former CIA officer who still carries out freelance work for the agency voiced the irritation of some American spies. "It's certainly frustrating that Britain is an Islamist swamp," he said. "You don't want to have to spend time spying on your friends." Continued...

British security chiefs have long turned a blind eye to a CIA presence in Britain and, since the attacks of September 11, 2001, MI5 and the CIA have worked together closely to combat the threat from Islamist extremists. MI5 also tolerates similar operations by the Israeli agency Mossad, which briefs members of the London Jewish community on threats to their security.

However, US security chiefs have stepped up their presence in Britain in the past two years, as they think Islamist extremists there are the biggest threat to US security and fear MI5 may be swamped by the scale of the threat. They also fear al-Qaeda recruits could travel to the US under America's visa waiver program.

MI5 director-general Jonathan Evans has estimated about 4000 people in Britain pose a direct threat to national security.

Bruce Riedel, a Middle East intelligence analyst for the White House National Security Council, said: "A great deal of concern about threats to the US homeland is based upon attacks coming out of the UK. The 800,000 or so British citizens of Pakistani origin are regarded by the American intelligence community as perhaps the single-biggest threat environment."

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http://www.theage.com.au/world/cia-tracking-4000-uk-terror-suspects-20090104-79u...
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Reply #1 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 12:08am
 
suspects means, anyone who lengthened his beard, or attended the mosque too often...

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How many moslems is there in UK?
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Reply #3 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 12:22am
 
abu_rashid wrote on Jan 7th, 2009 at 12:08am:
suspects means, anyone who lengthened his beard, or attended the mosque too often...

next.


What experience have you had in the field of national security?

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Reply #4 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 12:58am
 
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suspects means, anyone who lengthened his beard, or attended the mosque too often...


Yes, and they used to look for soccer hooligans at soccer games, it sort of makes perfect sense if you look at it that way.

Cultural profiling is unfortunate, but when one culture keeps blowing stuff up, I guess it is to be expected.

Get used to it, or get your mates to stop blowing stuff up.
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Reply #5 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 5:42am
 
Many British Muslims Put Islam First
NRO: Survey Shows Many Are More Loyal To Fellow Muslims Outside U.K.
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Aug. 14, 2006 | by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather

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Scheme to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft is foiled in U.K.; aviation security ratcheted up.

(National Review Online) This column was written by Patrick Basham.
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The recent homegrown plot in Britain to blow up transatlantic flights will intensify the fear that the country's 1.6 million Muslims are rejecting political tolerance and free speech for a violent, radicalized version of Islam. There is a real concern that British Muslims do pose a threat to that country and its traditional values. So how prevalent are such radical views among British Muslims?

Some answers are provided by the most comprehensive survey to date of Muslim opinion in Britain. The results from NOP Research, broadcast by Channel 4-TV on August 7, are startling.

Forty-five percent say 9/11 was a conspiracy by the American and Israeli governments. This figure is more than twice as high as those who say it was not a conspiracy. Tragically, almost one in four British Muslims believe that last year's 7/7 attacks on London were justified because of British support for the U.S.-led war on terror.

When asked, "Is Britain my country or their country?" only one in four say it is. Thirty percent of British Muslims would prefer to live under Sharia (Islamic religious) law than under British law. According to the report, "Half of those who express a preference for living under Sharia law say that, given the choice, they would move to a country governed by those laws."

Twenty-eight percent hope for the U.K. one day to become a fundamentalist Islamic state. This comports with last year's Daily Telegraph newspaper survey that found one-third of British Muslims believe that Western society is decadent and immoral and that Muslims should seek to end it.

The news is no less alarming on the question of freedom of speech. Seventy-eight percent support punishment for the people who earlier this year published cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed. Sixty-eight percent support the arrest and prosecution of those British people who "insult Islam." When asked if free speech should be protected, even if it offends religious groups, 62 percent of British Muslims say No, it should not.

Also concerning freedom of speech, as the NOP Research survey reports, "hardcore Islamists" constitute nine percent of the British Muslim population. A slightly more moderate group is composed of "staunch defenders of Islam." This second group comprises 29 percent of the British Muslim population. Individuals in this group aggressively defend their religion from internal and external threats, real or imagined.

The scary reality is that only three percent of British Muslims "took a consistently pro-freedom of speech line on these questions." The Muslim threat to British security is so severe that the assistant London police commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, has called for an inquiry into the radicalization of young Muslims. Ghaffur sadly describes "a generation of angry young people vulnerable to exploitation."

Before the London bombings, British intelligence services estimated that one percent of British Muslims either support or are involved in terrorism. While this is mainly a peaceful and productive immigrant population, a significant number are prepared to act against their own country.

The British government believes that, in recent years, 3,000 British Muslims have returned home from al Qaeda training camps. Intelligence experts estimate that 1,200 Muslim radicals (80 percent of Pakistani origin) are currently pursuing a terrorist rather than a democratic option to vent their disgust at Tony Blair's support for America's invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and opposition to Hezbollah.

This terrorist weed that is choking the U.K. is especially hard to eradicate because it is growing in British soil. America's fastest-growing religion is Islam, but here in the States the numbers are not a security concern, as a commitment to Islam has not overwhelmed a strong attachment to America itself — another victory for the cultural melting pot.

By contrast, the U.K. embraced taxpayer-subsidized multiculturalism and has paid a very dear price, indeed. The result — cultural apartheid — has encouraged a significant number of Muslims to exhibit more loyalty to fellow Muslims outside of the U.K. than to their fellow Britons.

Patrick Basham is director of the Democracy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/14/opinion/main1893879.shtml
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Reply #6 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 7:43am
 
That is a very disturbing report Calanen.

If we can learn from the european mistakes, and stop muslims from setting up isolationist, enclaves, then we will have a chance of seeing each new generation, espousing, true, aussie, values, rather than seeing them promoting Sharia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
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Reply #7 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 8:24am
 
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stop muslims from setting up isolationist, enclaves, then we will have a chance of seeing each new generation, espousing, true, aussie, values, rather than seeing them promoting Sharia.


Good idea mozz. How does this sound for the first step. Attack their belief system at every opportunity you get, accuse them en masse of being terrorists, terrorist sympathisers, gang rapists, criminals etc. merely because of their ethnic/religious background and any other scheme you can think up to completely alienate them.... sound like the best way to stop them setting up isolationist enclaves?
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If we can learn from the european mistakes, and stop muslims from setting up isolationist, enclaves, then we will have a chance of seeing each new generation, espousing, true, aussie, values, rather than seeing them promoting Sharia. 


Naive hope.

Just need to end or severely limit Islamic immigration so there is not enough of them to ever be a threat.
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Reply #9 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 9:03am
 
Too late to close the gate Calanen, the horse has bolted.

We have much higher birth rates (and therefore collect lots more baby bonuses) and also there's quite a lot of Aussies embracing Islam. So it's inevitable, prepare for dhimmitude you infidel!!
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Reply #10 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 9:18am
 
That would be funny Abu, if what you were saying was as implausible as you try and make it sound.
Unfortunately the experiences in the UK, the Netherlands, and Sweden, makes it sound a lot less funny.

Call me an optimist, but I still hold out hope, that the crazy Islamists, can be displaced by decent well intentioned muslims, but they need to pull their finger out and get on with it.
The longer they leave it, the more resentment will be reflected toward average muslims, whose only crime is allowing their faith to be hijacked by the nutjobs.
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Reply #11 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:28am
 
According to Abu, Muslims should feel no obligation to help reign in fellow Muslim terrorists until all of their demands from the west are met.
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Reply #12 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:50am
 
Forget it Abu...  your little symbolic avatar will never be a reality...  if the time comes there will be one hell of a revolt here and it won't be pretty.
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Reply #13 - Jan 7th, 2009 at 11:34am
 
abu_rashid wrote on Jan 7th, 2009 at 9:03am:
Too late to close the gate Calanen, the horse has bolted.

We have much higher birth rates (and therefore collect lots more baby bonuses) and also there's quite a lot of Aussies embracing Islam. So it's inevitable, prepare for dhimmitude you infidel!!


It hasn't here yet. It has probably in Europe however. I just dont want to see the same things as in Europe, with riots for months on end like in Paris in 2005. Which was all about random persons of no particular religion shouting allah akbar.

Wherever there is Islam, there is violence. It's always justified, provoked by the treatment of others, a proportionate respone to their mistreatment. But the one common denominator is Islam in all of those places.

So many people have understimated the Australians, but we are I think the only Western country that has said 'Enough' to Islamic thuggery in the Cronulla riots. The rest of the world just cops it. So expect a big, big backlash that not even the multiculti state can control if Islam wants to go down the same path here as it has in Europe.
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mozzaok wrote on Jan 7th, 2009 at 12:58am:
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Get used to it, or get your mates to stop blowing stuff up.


ah yes, because abu must know every muslim in the world
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