Dexlysia
04-05-2006, 19:35
The short version:
Al Qaeda hacker secretly arrested. Al Qaeda hacker cooperates with authorities, works undercover to track down Al Qaeda members in U.S. and Britain.
2004 U.S. presidential election approaches. Terror alert level rises.
U.S. officials leak the name of the mole in an effort to justify the terror level increase, therefore rendering their inside man useless.
WTF!? They had a double agent inside Al Qaeda, outed him, and nobody seems to care? Why isn't anyone trying to get to the bottom of this? Isn't this grounds for treason? Am I missing something?
Until U.S. officials leaked the arrest of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan to reporters, Pakistan had been using him in a sting operation to track down al Qaeda operatives around the world, the sources said.
The revelation that a mole within al Qaeda was exposed after Washington launched its "orange alert" [...] has shocked security experts, who say the outing of the source may have set back the war on terror.
According to a Post report attributed to a senior U.S. official, "Khan became part of a sting operation organized by the CIA after he was captured last month [July 13] and agreed to send coded e-mail messages to al Qaeda contacts around the world." That sting operation was blown instantly by the leak of Khan's name.
This isn't a normal leak case; the stakes here are life and death. From what we know, it appears that Khan may, all too briefly, have been one of the most important agents in place the United States has managed to recruit in al Qaeda. Had he been able to continue e-mailing members of al Qaeda, security agencies could have rolled up many more members of the network. But once Khan's name was in the paper Aug. 2, any chance of exploiting him further was gone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6679-2004Aug16.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=340&objectid=3583015
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/terror.wrap/index.html
Al Qaeda hacker secretly arrested. Al Qaeda hacker cooperates with authorities, works undercover to track down Al Qaeda members in U.S. and Britain.
2004 U.S. presidential election approaches. Terror alert level rises.
U.S. officials leak the name of the mole in an effort to justify the terror level increase, therefore rendering their inside man useless.
WTF!? They had a double agent inside Al Qaeda, outed him, and nobody seems to care? Why isn't anyone trying to get to the bottom of this? Isn't this grounds for treason? Am I missing something?
Until U.S. officials leaked the arrest of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan to reporters, Pakistan had been using him in a sting operation to track down al Qaeda operatives around the world, the sources said.
The revelation that a mole within al Qaeda was exposed after Washington launched its "orange alert" [...] has shocked security experts, who say the outing of the source may have set back the war on terror.
According to a Post report attributed to a senior U.S. official, "Khan became part of a sting operation organized by the CIA after he was captured last month [July 13] and agreed to send coded e-mail messages to al Qaeda contacts around the world." That sting operation was blown instantly by the leak of Khan's name.
This isn't a normal leak case; the stakes here are life and death. From what we know, it appears that Khan may, all too briefly, have been one of the most important agents in place the United States has managed to recruit in al Qaeda. Had he been able to continue e-mailing members of al Qaeda, security agencies could have rolled up many more members of the network. But once Khan's name was in the paper Aug. 2, any chance of exploiting him further was gone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6679-2004Aug16.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=340&objectid=3583015
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/terror.wrap/index.html