My point was that Mark Brown and many other stupid individuals are rethinking their position on the US role to go out and change regimes.
The stupidity is their failure to see it was the inherent threat posed by Saddam that needed to be eliminated. Billions of dollars of resources in the control of a psychopath.
As I said the one of the most dangerous things that can happen that would allow terrorists to succeed is the compromise of trusted individuals.
In my mail today:
Islamists Infiltrate Law Enforcement This evening, at the very end of the sixth episode in Fox Broadcasting's 24 drama, a sudden twist entered the plot: one of the key American counterterrorist figures is actually working for an Islamist terrorist gang. It may sound unlikely, but there are already at least three documented cases of Islamist infiltration in Western countries:
* United Kingdom: Ghazi Kassim, 53, admitted three charges of "public office misconduct" for selling information about Saudi Islamists and Abu Hamza al-Masri to Ali al-Shamarani, a third secretary at the Saudi Arabian embassy. Kassim, a policeman for 15 years, was arrested in July 2003 after receiving something like £14,000. The prosecutor explained his modus operandi: "Ghazi Kassim conducted research into private individuals using confidential databases held by the Metropolitan Police. He received tasking from Dr Ali al-Shamarani to go to question people at their home addresses, which he did. … He did not declare he was a police officer when he did this, nor did he declare for whom he was carrying out this research." Kassim received a two-and-a-half year jail sentence in October 2004 for these abuses; in addition, he was jailed for six months to run concurrently for having a CS gas canister at his home.
* The Netherlands: A Moroccan national identified as Outman Ben Amar, 34, who worked as a translator at the Dutch AIVD intelligence service, was arrested on Sept. 30, 2004, on suspicion of betraying state secrets. In particular, he is suspected of having leaked information, perhaps via hidden information on his website, to the group linked to the Nov. 2 ritual murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
* United States: On Jan. 6, 2005, the Chicago Police Department fired Patricia Eng-Hussain, 30, just three days into her training, on learning that her husband, Mohammad Azam Hussain, 36, was arrested in September 2004 and is charged with failing to tell U.S. immigration officials about his role as an active and founding member of Mohajir Quami Movement-Haqiqi, a Pakistani group accused of murders, kidnappings and extortion. On arrest, Hussain admitted he had spent time at a Pakistani "death camp" and learned to use weapons and explosives. Suspicions about Eng-Hussain were aroused when she asked for time off to be in court. She had previously taken the stand as a defense witness.
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