Report: British officers planned to infiltrate extremists using Internet
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
British intelligence officers planned to infiltrate Islamic extremist groups through the Internet in a bid to turn them away from violence, but the plan met with criticism, a newspaper reported.
The plan was detailed in a letter from the Foreign Office's top intelligence official, William Ehrman, to the government's security and intelligence co-ordinator, Sir David Omand, dated 23 April, 2004.
The document, leaked to The Observer newspaper, proposed that agents should infiltrate extremist websites, posing as radicals themselves, and spread anti-Western propaganda as a way of getting the extremists' trust.
Ehrman proposed developing "messages aimed at more radicalized constituencies who are potential recruits to terrorism," according to the newspaper.
posted by Fergie @ 9/04/2005 11:14:00 AM
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