Re: Unidentified sources get to work

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Once again this Scottish source is so good, it makes you wonder if it is
being used to leak informed briefings into the British media.

But why? Is it to keep the flag flying for Britain in the skirmishing with
US intelligence services, but discretely through a Scottish rather than an
English outlet?

Chris Burford

London


At 17/09/01 17:16 +0300, you wrote:
> Spy base in Yorkshire listens in on bin Laden's phone calls
>
> IAN BRUCE
>
> The Herald, 17 September 2001
>
>       BRITAIN is playing a key role in the hunt for
>       Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in last
>       week's flying bomb attacks on New York and
>       Washington, via the top-secret electronic spy
>       base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire.