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MI5 warn Harry: You are a target
Follow up on that WND story.
PRINCE Harry has been warned by MI6 chief John Scarlett that insurgents in Iraq are plotting to kill him. Mr Scarlett personally told the third in line to the throne of the grave risks he faces in going to Iraq, following a huge global intelligence-gathering operation.

Harry was informed that code breakers have smashed Al Qaeda’s communications system and uncovered information which shows that he will be a prime target for the terrorist hit squads.
Thanks for broadcasting the intel, guys, now al-Q knows we've cracked their latest code. Brilliant.
Investigations by the Sunday Express also show that insurgents are desperately trying to crack the digital communications system used by our forces in Iraq. They have obtained technical journals and papers to find out all they can about how it works, say sources. If the terrorists manage to eavesdrop on that system, they will be closer to tracking the movements of the 22-year-old Prince, placing him and his fellow soldiers in the Blues and Royals Regiment in peril.

Mr Scarlett visited the Prince at his London home Clarence House on Tuesday afternoon. With him was a slim briefcase containing a file stamped with a small, red cross of St George. Over sandwiches and cake, he presented the file to Harry and explained its contents. At no time did he attempt to dissuade the Prince from going to Iraq but merely set out to ensure he had all the information available on the potential threat.

It is understood that Harry asked many questions, based partly on what he had learned about intelligence-gathering while training at Sandhurst. “The great thing about Scarlett is that he is a master of his brief,” said the source. “The paper in the briefcase was a leave-behind document for Harry to study.

“It is safe to assume that Harry would have asked the kind of questions he had put during his intelligence classes at Sandhurst.

“He insists he knows how to look after himself and his men. He is a stubborn little bugger.”
I like this man more and more.
Threats to Cornet Wales come from both of the main warring factions in Iraq – Al Qaeda and other militant Sunni groups operating mainly in the West of the country, and Shia militias around Basra in the South, which are backed by Iran. The main threat on the Shia side comes from the Mahdi Army, which is headed by the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. A message published on a website operated by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah includes a call for the Mahdi Army to locate Harry and adds: “God is capable of anything.”

A reply says: “I wish his end at the hands of the courageous Iraqi resistance.”
It is believed that Shia groups are largely responsible for the increasingly regular mortar and rocket fire targeting British bases in Basra.

The Al Qaeda communications system is at the heart of a new HQ that Osama bin Laden has set up in the Waziristan area of north Pakistan. It is from there that bin Laden overseas a network of camps that are hard to locate from the air and virtually inaccessible from the ground. The communications system is run by bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is believed to have created the various codes through which the system passes on orders to Al Qaeda’s regional commanders
Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-25
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