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Secret Al Qaeda files lost

by LotusFlower | June 11, 2008 at 07:18 pm | 113 views | add comment

Another 'senior intelligence officer' has a 'senior moment'.

TOP secret files on Al Qaeda were left on a train by a senior intelligence officer, it was revealed today.
A police investigation has been launched after secret Government documents went missing.
It is understood that the two documents - both marked "Secret" - relate to al Qaeda in Pakistan and the security situation in Iraq and were lost yesterday.
The documents were eventually handed to the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner, who reported details of the security breach.
A spokesman for the Cabinet Office said: "Two documents which are marked as secret’ were left on a train and have subsequently been handed to the BBC.
"There has been a security breach, the Metropolitan Police are carrying out an investigation."
The spokesman declined to discuss the contents of the documents.
The BBC reported that they were left on the train by a senior intelligence officer.