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| Former UK soldier convicted of handing sensitive information to Iranian government |
| 2024-11-29 |
| [IsraelTimes] A former British soldier whose audacious escape from a London prison spurred a dayslong search is convicted of passing on sensitive information to the Iranian intelligence service. Daniel Khalife, …more fully Daniel Abed Khalife, the son of a Lebanese father and an Iranian mother who took the queen’s shilling at age 16, he escaped from jail by tying himself underneath a food truck, then was captured four days later on a canal tow path… 23, is found guilty by a jury in Woolwich Crown Court on violations of Britannia’s Official Secrets Act by collecting information useful to an enemy — Iran. He is cleared of a charge of planting fake bombs in his military barracks.Prosecutors said Khalife played a "cynical game" by claiming he wanted to be a spy after he had delivered a large amount of restricted and classified material to Iran, including the names of special forces officers. No way of knowing whether the information he handed over was real or invented until the Mossad gets into Iran’s files again… Khalife testified that he had been in touch with people in the Iranian government but that it was all part of a ploy to ultimately work as a double agent for Britannia, a scheme he said he got from watching the TV show "Homeland.""I wanted to utilize my background to further our national security," he told jurors. A noble and romantic thought. But spies do not operate alone — they require handlers from the beginning to ensure their information gets to those who should have it, and that they efforts do not compromise others on the team. Khalife joined the Army at 16 and was assigned to the Royal Corps of Signals, a communications unit that is deployed with battlefield troops, as well as special forces and intelligence squads.He was told he could not join the intelligence service because his mother is from Iran. At 17, he reached out to a man connected with Iranian intelligence and began passing along information, prosecutors said. He was given NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... secret security clearance when he took part in a joint exercise at Fort Cavazos in Texas in early 2021. British security officials were not aware of Khalife’s contacts with the Iranians until he contacted MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, to offer to work as a double agent. He reached out to MI6 anonymously, saying he had earned the trust of his Iranian handlers and that they had rewarded him by leaving a bag in a north London park that contained $2,000 cash ($1,578 pounds). Khalife said most of the material he provided to his Iranian handlers was information he made up or documents that were available online and didn’t expose military secrets. Related: Daniel Khalife 09/12/2023 UK terror suspect appears in court following capture in prison escape Related: MI6: 2024-10-17 Hot air balloon strike, collapse of New Mexico radio tower caught on camera during popular festival MI6: 2024-10-16 Svidomo agronomist. How Bandera bargained with the Germans for a 'new order' MI6: 2024-09-19 Gazans' access to toilets and personal hygiene is severely limited, says UNRWA |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 And thank you, Besoeker, for providing interim solutions for all three links. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-11-29 02:19 |
| #5 Thank you for the heads up, Fairbanks. Fixed — for some reason the URLs were within single quotes instead of the usual double quotes. I erased the quotes altogether, and then it worked fine for me. Please double check to make sure it works for you now, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-11-29 02:19 |
| #4 Bandera. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-29 01:47 |
| #3 UNRWA story. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-29 01:43 |
| #2 Radio tower story. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-29 01:38 |
| #1 MODS: I get a "Not Found..." for each of the MI6 Related articles. |
| Posted by: Fairbanks 2024-11-29 01:30 |