Friday, June 13, 2008

"Gadzooks! My secret folder... bloody Spy Bar drinks."

UK - One of Britain's top intelligence officers spies left a dossier of secret files detailing the threat from al-Qaeda and the status of Iraqi security forces on a train, the British Government was forced to concede...

Marked "secret" and in a bright orange folder, the papers were left on a commuter train traveling between Surrey and Waterloo station, London. The al-Qaeda document, apparently commissioned jointly by the Foreign Office and Home Office, was classified "UK top secret" and was so sensitive that each page was numbered and marked: "For UK, US, Canadian and Australian eyes only."

...the file, handed to the BBC by a passenger... (more)