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I bet they try to blame this on al-Qaida

  
 
Lullaboozler
08:52 / 20.03.02
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,670651,00.html

Embarrassing? Yes.
Inside job? Almost certainly.
Will we ever find out who did it? Not likely!

And I thought all our secret service was good for was losing laptops in the backs of cabs...

[Edited becasue, ironically, I can't spell embarrassing]

[ 20-03-2002: Message edited by: Lullaboozler ]
 
 
Ierne
12:46 / 20.03.02
From the article:

Security sources hinted that the raid on the special branch office within the fortified complex at Castlereagh bore the hallmarks of an inside job. They suggested it might have been carried out by disgruntled police officers trying to discredit special branch...Sir Ronnie {Flannagan} has also referred the matter to Nuala O'Loan, the police ombudsman.

The break-in is a huge embarrassment for the chief constable, who retires in less than a fortnight and will take up a post in England as an inspector of constabulary.

It comes a few months after Mrs O'Loan castigated him for poor leadership in relation to the Omagh bomb inquiry. She also carpeted special branch for failure to pass on warnings and intelligence information to police officers.

From the writer's POV it definitely looks like some politicking is going on between the police and special branch...
 
  
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