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...tasked with internal security), and its sister organization, the Secret Intelligence Service (also called MI6 and concerned with external intelligence), have set up their own websites and now advertise openly for new recruits. But this new transparency has strict limits. Much of the agencies' work is covert and British spymasters seldom venture into the full glare of public attention...
...Evans' choice of audience would have also generated comment. He delivered his speech, which had prior approval from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, to the Society of Editors, a group dedicated to the preservation of media freedoms. The date of the speech added further piquancy: Evans addressed his audience on Guy Fawkes' Day, the anniversary of one of the earliest terror conspiracies in Britain, the failed plot on Nov. 5, 1605, to blow up the Houses of Parliament...
Leckrone, the American commander, said that with the British out of Basra, and U.S. and Coalition forces withdrawing from Karbala last week, Shi'ite militias in southern Iraq may now focus on Diwaniyah. "There's been, no doubt, a lot of progress lately," he said. "But it's still an uphill battle here, a tough fight. You never know where or when they [the militia] are going...
...militants' tactics in Diwaniyah would be familiar to the British. After months of sustained mortar and rocket attacks on their Basra camps, the British essentially declared victory and slipped out of Basra in the night, pulling back to the regional airport and washing their hands of the Shi'ite infighting that has made Iraq's second largest city ungovernable. British Defense Secretary Des Browne announced Wednesday in Baghdad that the British would hand the Basra region over to Iraqi security forces by mid-December, leaving the city to Iraqi forces that are deeply infiltrated by three warring Shi'ite factions...
Emboldened by a propaganda victory when the British left Basra, Shi'ite militants have since turned their sights on the Poles and the patchwork of other international forces stationed in and around Diwaniyah. Camp Echo, the headquarters of Multinational Division Central-South, is a virtual Tower of Babel where more than 200 Americans and most of the 900-strong Polish force work and live alongside 100 Mongolians, 62 Romanians, 46 Armenians, 36 Bosnians, 27 Ukrainians, a Lithuanian, a Latvian and a bunch of Ugandan guards. Together they and their numbers posted in urban outposts endure frequent mortar and rocket attacks...