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Heimdall
3rd Aug 2008, 18:01
Interesting article, if rather inaccurate in places, in todays Mail on Sunday.
MI5 launch spy-in-the-sky UK manhunt for British Taliban who fought in Afghanistan | Mail Online (http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html)
Heimdall
chevvron
4th Aug 2008, 05:48
Don't they issue 'D' notices any more?
CirrusF
4th Aug 2008, 07:12
And what good have D-notices ever done? They only apply to UK paper press, and as soon as one is issued, the market value of the story is dramatically increased so the author is able to sell it abroad at a higher price. It then appears on the internet, so the D-notice is circumvented and UK newspapers can print the story anyway.
And anyway, how do you know that MI5 have not deliberately leaked that story? Maybe they decided that it would be better to let terror-suspects know that their mobile phone calls and wifi nets are under electronic surveillance, thereby disrupting them and encouraging them to use other means of communication from where admissible evidence could be obtained? Just speculation on my part - but don't always assume that what you read in newspapers about security service operations is true, or does not have another hidden agenda.
merlinxx
4th Aug 2008, 07:42
Well it is pretty bloody obvious that this and/or similar is going on, I for one am glad it is!
Don't they issue 'D' notices any more?
D/DA Notices are only Official requests not to publish - the media are free to ignore them if they wish .
It's taken them a while to make the link, when you consider they had the picture back in Feb 2007
Revealed: Britain's first victim in the war on terror | Mail Online (http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-435355/Revealed-Britains-victim-war-terror.html)