The Sun to Taliban: keep watching the skies
There’s an impeccably sourced story in The Sun today. Impeccable in that the sources are anonymous so you have no idea if this is true or just some cloak and dagger bullshit cooked up to captivate the kind of man who enjoys novels about the SAS.
RAF experts eavesdropped on radio traffic in Afghanistan — and heard Taliban fighters speaking in Brummie and Yorkshire accents.
It’s a story that combines a number of elements to form a piquant stew. It’s got the plucky airmen hunting terrorists. It’s got the edge of paranoia about the homeland being a hotbed of dusky suicide bombers. Is that brown chap a few seats away on the bus heading for Afghanistan? Maybe he can’t be arsed and plans to go boom somewhere closer to home?
Best of all, it shows that The Sun are privy to secret intelligence. How cool is that? Check out the intelligence services and, by extension The Sun, getting one over on the hapless Taliban who are no match on the electronic frontier of The War Against Terror:
They do now, dickheads. The melodramatic have been screaming ‘TRAITORS!’ about the Black Country bombers, missing the fact that splashing details of military operations tracking dangerous terrorists doesn’t really speak to the national interest either.
If this all is true, the Brummie Taliban and their supporters have just read on the Internet and in a national newspaper how the British armed forces are tracking them. Now that their spy in the sky cover is blown, the RAF are going to have to switch to tracking the imports of Slade records and Cup-A-Soup into Afghanistan.
A national security snafu or a big pile of steaming page-filler? I can’t decide.
Posted on February 11th, 2008 at 3:02pm under Afghanistan, T.W.A.T., The home front
Slight typo there, boy. Surely you meant ‘The Sun is a privvy’