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http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2028788,00.html
| Quote: | Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5, is to be succeeded by Jonathan Evans, her deputy, who has been in charge of monitoring al-Qaida and its sympathisers in Britain, it was disclosed yesterday.
Mr Evans, 49, a career security service officer, has been the favourite to take over from Dame Eliza since it was announced in December that she intended to retire next month. A handful of other candidates were considered, Whitehall sources said yesterday.
Mr Evans takes on MI5's top job at a time of severe pressure. Dame Eliza said in a rare public speech last November that MI5 had identified 30 major terrorist plots in Britain and was targeting more than 1,600 individuals actively engaged in promoting attacks here and abroad.
The 30 plots were the most serious of many more planned by some 200 British-based "networks" involved in terrorism, she said, adding that most of those involved were British-born, and most connected with al-Qaida.
The announcement that Dame Eliza, 58, wanted to leave after five years in the job provoked speculation that she wanted to avoid the fallout from the July 7 2005 London suicide bombings.
She said her decision to step down by next month was taken two years ago - before the 7/7 bombings - and she had told Charles Clarke, who was home secretary at the time. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject: Hes bound to be and only ...49! |
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The war on terror roadshow must go on and on.
Theres many oilfields and poppy mountains on earth.
Drugs and oil, oil and drugs and every now and again a man in a beard in a cave gives a speech about how he is fighting for us all!!
25% increase in heroin production in Afghanistan in the small print of the news today. You wont hear that in the main news broadcasts. After all they are all agains the CAP unless of course it happen to be in charge of agricultural subsidies on the other side of the earth. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject: why evans - nightmare boy |
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The first article on this archive page explains exactly why Evans has been appointed to the job - he's Britain's leading Islamic Terror fantasist - as described in the Power of Nightmares - the New Head of UK Nightmares is about to be installed in the organisation designed to protect us from infiltration by foreign intelligence services!
Consider Britain now fully infiltrated.
God help us all.
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http://www.ladlass.com/intel/archives/cat_mi5.html
February 04, 2007
Al-Qaeda tells British cells to carry out wave of beheadings
David Leppard - Sunday Times
ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week.
The “strategic” assassination instruction was issued by Al-Qaeda’s leaders in Pakistan and Iraq to dozens of their followers in this country. It was uncovered by MI5 last autumn, senior security sources say.
As a result police are on standby for multiple attempts by terrorists to kidnap and then behead people across Britain. MI5 is conducting a counter-terrorism surveillance operation to prevent such an attack.
The alleged attempt to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier or soldiers in Birmingham was just the first of a series of planned attacks, security sources say.
The revelation explains the recent deployment of a permanent SAS unit to London. The unit has been placed on 24-hour standby to respond to a terrorist attack in the capital. It would aim to carry out a hostage rescue mission within minutes of being alerted.
Muslim police officers serving in London may also be given extra protection. The Association of Muslim Police is in talks with the Met, which is expected to carry out a risk assessment of the dangers.
One well placed source said: “Cells in the UK have been alerted to carry out this type of attack as opposed to the more sophisticated type of bombing in which you place a large number of volunteers at risk. All you need for a beheading is a bit of courage and a sharp knife.”
The order to encourage “low-tech” assassinations is said to follow a review by senior Al-Qaeda planners after an alleged plot to smuggle bombs onto airlines was foiled by police last August.
The order encouraged followers to adopt the tactics used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, who was behind the abduction, torture and beheading of Ken Bigley, a British engineer, in Iraq in 2004.
Bigley, 62, was kidnapped and filmed on video begging for Tony Blair to end the war before being beheaded. Footage of his “execution” was later posted on the internet.
After learning of the alleged Birmingham plot to behead a British Muslim soldier returning from Iraq or Afghanistan last autumn, the Ministry of Defence spent several months trying to establish how many soldiers fitted into this category.
After focusing on soldiers in the regular army, the Royal Marines and the Territorial Army, officials whittled the list of potential targets down to fewer than 10.
These soldiers were warned about the potential threat and advised on protection measures, or given the means to protect themselves. Sources said several of the suspects were personally acquainted with the Muslim soldier who was said to have been lined up as their first victim. The soldier, a corporal in military intelligence, is said to be under close protection.
The surveillance operation in Birmingham was stepped up at the beginning of last month when scores of detectives were seconded from the Greater Manchester police to join their colleagues in the West Midlands anti-terrorism unit.
The decision to arrest the nine suspects is said to have been made after one of them was seen buying a video camera in an electronics shop last weekend.
According to another source close to the investigation, those involved in the plot were supplying equipment and computer hardware to Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. One of the suspects had recently returned from a trip to Pakistan.
There were also claims this weekend that several of the arrested men attended the Hamza mosque in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham.
An official at the mosque, who refused to be named, said it was a centre for a group called Tablighi Jamaat, described by western security services as a “conveyor belt to Al-Qaeda”. The group’s British headquarters is in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, where two of the London bombers regularly attended. In a statement, mosque officials said they could not confirm the claims.
Despite intelligence about the new UK strategy security sources say that Al-Qaeda has not entirely dropped more traditional terrorism tactics.
At least two cells are believed to be preparing attacks using cars packed with fertiliser explosives to cause mass casualties.
Armed guards were last month deployed outside the Bacton gas terminal in Norfolk following intelligence that it had been “scouted” by known terrorist suspects. Intelligence suggested the suspects were discussing how to carry out a car bomb attack.
A Whitehall official said MI5 was now monitoring about 280 terror suspects.
Each was suspected of serious intent to carry out an attack. Cells are being closely observed in at least four British towns and cities.
February 4, 2007 at 12:14 PM in Current Terrorism, MI5, UK | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home
December 25, 2006
New MI5 boss is top expert on Al-Qaeda
New MI5 boss is top expert on Al-Qaeda - Sunday Times - Times Online
David Leppard
A SPYMASTER who has tracked Al-Qaeda’s activities in Britain since the organisation first emerged as a threat to this country is frontrunner to be the next head of MI5.
Sources said Jonathan Evans, senior deputy director-general of the security service, was a “racing certainty” to take over from Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, who surprised Whitehall last week by announcing that she would be stepping down early from the top job.
Sources said she had decided to quit in anticipation that she might be asked to resign over blunders concerning last year’s July 7 bombings.
Evans is a career spy with a background in fighting terror. He served as head of G branch, MI5’s international terrorism section, making him the agency’s then supremo in dealing with the emerging Al-Qaeda threat. Before that he served as a senior officer in Northern Ireland, helping to spearhead the fight against the IRA.
The Home Office maintained last week that there was nothing unusual about Manningham-Buller’s decision to leave after only four years in the job.
In her leaving statement she insisted that she had decided in “early 2005” that it would be time to stand down by April 2007. But Whitehall officials said that the announcement had come as a “surprise”.
Insiders and security experts see it as a “pre-emptive strike” linked to forthcoming revelations concerning how much her agency knew about the intentions of the July 7 suicide bombers in the 18 months before the attacks.
The sources said that the agency was bracing itself for detailed disclosures about its intelligence on Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shezhad Tanweer, the two leading bombers who killed 52 people. The Sunday Times and other media are prevented by court orders from making this evidence public.
The sources said that Manningham-Buller’s decision to step down was unlikely to head off widespread public criticism of the spy agency: “She knows she will be asked to resign over this. She was protected by Charles Clarke (the former home secretary) but some people believe that if things go badly wrong John Reid (his successor) will be happy to slit her throat.”
In his statement on her departure, Reid was fulsome in his praise. “Her contribution to the security of our nation has been invaluable and I pay tribute to her unstinting efforts,” he said.
The Home Office will this week begin circulating advertisements for her replacement. Reid will make the final choice, expected to be announced by the end of next month. However, security sources are already tipping Evans to take over in April. As deputy, he has had daily responsibility for oversight of the service’s operational work.
Evans is highly respected as a spymaster. A source said: “He is very switched on. He’s dynamic, confident, a natural leader. He’s a gifted communicator. He’s very comfortable with himself and is good with ministers and mixing at the top table. But he is also very personable. He’s good at dealing with staff in a hail-fellow-well-met sort of way.”
Evans is also said to have a formidable intellect: “He grasps the material and can make a quick decision. He has gravitas but he’s also got a very relaxed style.”
Former MI5 bosses including Dame Stella Rimington and Sir Stephen Lander have taken on part-time business directorships or public appointments, but Manningham-Buller is understood to want to spend more time on her 70-acre farm with her husband, a university academic.
They keep chickens and alpaca, the llama-like South American animal reared in Britain mainly for its wool. “She’s keen on hens and organic eggs,” said a colleague. “But she’s also very much in love with her husband. They are looking forward to spending more time together.”
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The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us make sense of these dates before us.
MI5 announced the apointment of Jonathan Evans on 7.3.7, rather oddly on a Wednesday, the 66th day of the year.
Wednesday 7.3.7 was the 119th day of Dame Eliza Mannigham-Buller's major Al Q speech at Queen Mary's College, London delivered on 9.11 (2006)
7.3.7 also marked 9 years, 10 months and 1 week anniversary of Bliar's treacherous reign since Noo Labour's first election victory on 1.5.97
Jonathan Evans succeeds Dame Eliza Mannigham-Buller who took up the post of Director General of MI5 on 8.10.2002 which was a Tuesday, and just happened to be 9 months, 1 week and 1 day into the year.
Interestingly, 7.7.5 marked the 33rd month of Dame Eliza's stewardship of our domestic spooks.
Jonathan Evans starts his new job on 21.4.7 which again is rather odd because it's a Saturday.
21.4.7 is the 111th day of the year, or, 3 months and 3 weeks into the year and also happens to be 111 days, or 3 months and 3 weeks before 10.8.2006 - the 1st anniversary of the liquid bomb hoax.
21.4.7 is also, 9 months, 1 year and 1 day after the chapati fiasco occurred in London on 21.7.5, an interval of 91 weeks and 1 day and is also 91 days before it's 2nd anniversary on 21.7.7
21.4.7 is also 77 days before 7.7.7 - the 2nd anniversary of the London bombings.
I'm sure we all wish Mr Evans our best in his task of protecting us all from this clear and present danger.
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Terror plot specialist...
Sounds ominous.
Everyone should prepare for the worst in any way they can.
So far they have produced 'war on terror' propaganda on BBC2, on the Radio, on BBC1, by the 'left' gatekeepers Monbiot, Galloway and key positions have been handed over to Bush acolytes.
If those responsible believe a new round of mass murder will serve their ends they better think again.
Four years of 'war on terror' wars has brought nothing but grief and destruction. Things are only getting worse, both in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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Terror timeline - Jonathan Evans rise to the top at MI5
Autumn 1998 - G9/0 - Evans was Head of Middle East terrorist investigations, including the Libyan section.
When the former officers David Shayler and Annie Machon's Gadaffi plot hit the news Shayler was arrested in Paris and MI5 went on a charm offensive to say the plot was "pure fantasy".
10 days before September 11th 2001, Jonathan Evans is made Director General at MI5 - head of all international terrorism work.
Feb 2005 he's made Deputy Director General of MI5 (in charge of operations) - at the same time Annie Machon's book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 and the Shayler Affair, came out all in the direct run-up to 7/7.
Interesting coincidences. He moves into all the key positions at key times, and ends up DG.
| wiki wrote: | Jonathan Evans is the Director General of MI5 and is the sixteenth person to have held that post since it was created in 1909.
Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor suggested that Evans' article was an implicit attack on the judges who made the ruling, particularly Lord Neuberger, whose draft judgement had accused MI5 of misleading the Intelligence and Security Committee, and of having a "culture of suppression" that does not respect human rights.[14]
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Ex-spy boss Sir Jonathan Evans to help HSBC in fight against financial crime
Bank hires former head of MI5 to clean up its act after being fined by US authorities
James Moore
Friday 31 May 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/exspy-boss-sir-jonatha n-evans-to-help-hsbc-in-fight-against-financial-crime-8639708.html
It sounds like a plot from a novel by Dame Stella Rimington: bank hires former spymaster to help catch sinister international criminals blamed for damaging its reputation.
Except that this is a true story. HSBC has hired one of Dame Stella’s successors as chief spymaster at MI5 in the form of Sir Jonathan Evans.
Sir Jonathan has been appointed to help Britain’s biggest bank to clean up its act after US authorities fined it nearly $2bn (£1.3bn) for acting as a conduit for Mexican drug money and sanctions busting.
He will earn £125,000 for serving on HSBC’s Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee as well as joining its board as a non-executive director. The fee for the part-time roles compares to the £159,999 he was paid for his role at the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency in 2010, which was the last time it revealed his salary.
Sir Jonathan will put in 36 days a year for his work on the board, plus an unspecified number of extra days sitting on the committee, which will meet at least eight times a year.
The committee was set to help the bank identify areas where it could be exposed to financial crime, as HSBC battles to restore a reputation that was badly tarnished by the Americans’ findings.
Banks are increasingly being asked to take a leading role in the battle against financial crime, by spotting suspicious activity and alerting the authorities when they see it. Those that fail to take that role seriously can expect to be heavily penalised.
HSBC avoided criminal charges from the US Department of Justice only by signing a deferred prosecution agreement but was placed on probation for five years, and it is now operating on a very short lead with US authorities.
In response, it has increased the control the centre of the organisation has over its far-flung businesses, and sold subsidiaries in numerous “peripheral” territories.
Announcing the appointment yesterday, HSBC chairman Douglas Flint said that Sir Jonathan’s expertise would “be of considerable value to the board as it addresses its governance of systemic threats”.
The bank’s critics put a less flattering spin on the hire. David Hillman, spokesman for the Robin Hood Tax Campaign, which wants banks to be charged a financial transactions tax, said: “It shouldn’t be a surprise that someone who used to work in the shadows has been recruited by a sector that often operates in them. If a bank looking to clean up its act expects the appointment of a spy to do the trick, then they have another thing coming.”
Colleagues of Sir Jonathan on the committee include former deputy US attorney general Jim Comey, Bill Hughes, a former head of Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, and Dave Hartnett, the controversial former head of HM Revenue & Customs.
Other banks have made similarly high-profile hires as they seek to clean up their acts in the wake of the a string of scandals. Barclays appointed Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, as its head of compliance and government relations, while Royal Bank of Scotland made Jon Pain, another former senior watchdog, its compliance chief.
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