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Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida

World Nov. 06, 2010 - 04:00AM JST ( 5 )

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elbudamexicanoNov. 06, 2010 - 08:32AM JST

Wow! Now we can all sleep like babies on feel so safe and warm knowing that the UK, the USA have a few double agents spying on AQ? How about all of the Muslims double agents, or flat out spies that must be working and living in Europe, the USA etc..who must hate us, and must feel some kind of sense of duty to help AQ? I am sure that if we can put spies into AQ, we can bet the farm that AQ etc...can put spies in the US, UK armies, in our Pentagon etc..so I would not be too over joyed by this article, just stop gap measures, 2 major religions at each other' throats.
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Klein2Nov. 06, 2010 - 11:28AM JST

"“Layers of al-Qaida’s security have been slowly worn down and it’s much easier today to infiltrate these groups,” says Noman Benotman, a former jihadist with links to al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, and now a security and terrorism analyst in London.""

It is so true. The efforts againt AlQ have entered a new phase. If you think about it, Bin Laden was starting to get old a decade ago, but he had a cadre of people around him that people knew and could vouch for. AlQ has since been put through a blender or three or four, and although there are a lot more pieces left to locate and track, that just means more opportunities for infiltration by anti-terrorist efforts.

You can't really say that AlQ has become manageable, but there are parts that are probably being managed and manipulated right now, setting up more opportunities to head off terror plots and cut out the nastier cancers as they metastasize.

Something the article does not say is that Iran going nuclear has really lit a fire under many countries to get this problem taken care of. Washington is probably seeing a lot less ambivalence these days from Arab states and others in the region.

It is a crummy time to be a terrorist. And that's a good thing.
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lostrune2Nov. 06, 2010 - 02:05PM JST

Did these guys die in the service of?
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SuperLibNov. 06, 2010 - 04:59PM JST

Nice work.
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goddogNov. 06, 2010 - 05:05PM JST

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