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Canada the UK and the US: Its all about networking.

The links between the Canada case, the UK case and the Georgia connection are continuing to come into sharper focus.

There are three operations that have been underway between the EU, the United States and Canada:

Operation Mazhar The British/EU effort.
Operation OSage The Canadian Effort
Operation Northern Exposure. The US Effort.

So, while many of us thought that the UK operations was unrelated to the Canada effort, there appears to be some overlap. The UK has just made more arrests that the BBC is saying is related to the Canada case, not the UK case. Click here for mor details.

An additional arrest in the UK may prove to be the key arrest in the entire network, including the first mention that I've seen to a connection to Zarkawi. Click here for more details.

I'll have a more comprehensive post on this later tonight. There appears to be a massive break in the intelligence side of the game that is effectively leading to the rapid roll up of terror networks in the west.

Networks. It's all about the networks.

Posted @ June 07, 2006 10:10 AM | Current Affairs

Comments

Very interesting. There may or may not be a collection, but I hardly think it's earth-shattering news either way. Terrorists exist, terrorists collaborate, and sometimes not. Neither scenario changes the fact that they're there and want to hurt people to make themselves feel good.

Posted by: Robert Nanders at June 7, 2006 08:31 PM

What is significant to me is that while we often talk a great deal of the terrorists advantages in terms of "asymmetrical warfare", we rarely get a chance to see our response to it.

This is the first example ive seen where its clear that intelligence gathering and sharing is moving in a very non linear, speed and distrbuted way across many nations.

It also appears by the scale of these arrests that they have been somewhat successful.

Posted by: Frank Martin at June 7, 2006 08:55 PM