Monday, July 09, 2007
Help wanted: Muslim spies
The just-retired head of MI5, who rejoices in the name of Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, is calling on British police to recruit more Muslim spies:
Dame Eliza, who retired as head of MI5 this year, said there was a “pressing demand” for the police to create a network of spies from within the Muslim population to help to gather intelligence on suspects and plots.
She said that the networks “scattered across the country” are thought to be plotting up to 30 attacks at any one time.
Her comments, written before she retired but published recently in Policing: A Journal of Policing and Practice, indicate the difficulties the police face in getting information from within the Muslim community.
She's going to get in trouble with Prime Minister Brown for saying that.
This bit is equally funny:
Sir Alan West, the former First Sea Lord who is now security minister in the Home Office, also warned that Britain faces a 15-year battle to tackle the radicalisation of young Muslims.
Britain faced a threat from a “disparate core” of “racist” people, often based abroad, who wanted power, he told The Sunday Telegraph.
He said that preventing people being recruited to extremism was central to beating terrorism and called for some unBritish “snitching” from the public to help the cause.
“This is not a quick thing. I believe it will take 10 to 15 years. But I believe it can be done as long as we as a nation apply ourselves to it and it’s done across the board.”
He added: “Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone. I’m afraid, in this situation, anyone who’s got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life.
“We’ll have to be a little bit unBritish, I think . . . and say something and tell something.”
Next time I need to organize a criminal conspiracy I'll have to remember to recruit some of those non-snitching Brits.
4 Comments:
By 
, at
Mon Jul 09, 02:35:00 AM:
How could you trust any of your Muslim spies? Their loyalty is always to the umma, not any filthy kuffar organization like MI5.
By , at
Mon Jul 09, 04:54:00 AM:
The same way you trust normal spies, if the bomb factory is where they said it was, then they get paid, otherwise they don't.
By 
Assistant Village Idiot, at
Tue Jul 10, 11:25:00 AM:
Why would it be hard to recruit Muslim spies? I thought most Muslims were well-meaning moderates who are against jihad. I mean, you wouldn't need that many, really. Less than 1%.
By Dawnfire82, at
Tue Jul 10, 08:09:00 PM:
A core tenet of Islam is that Muslims don't fight other Muslims. In the Middle East that gets forgotten/ignored constantly; primary loyalty goes to the family/tribe/highest bidder. But in the land of the infidel, you have to stick together.
