US keeps intelligence secret from British

[T_i_B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/20/wirq20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/11/20/ixportal.html

The Americans are preventing the British and other key allies in the war on terrorism from seeing intelligence that could save lives, a US conference on military intelligence has been told.

British and Australian officers working in allied command centres during the war in Iraq were not allowed access to the intelligence they needed to do their job, one Australian complained.

RAF and RAAF officers were asked to leave the room during briefings, though some of the information they were prevented from seeing had been provided by the British or Australian intelligence services.

The Americans have a history of sharing intelligence only when they have something to gain, leading the parliamentary intelligence and security committee to express concern over the lack of British involvement in the latest US spy satellite programme.

[Suzette]

1. Oh, dear, Thankfully_in_Britain,

do any of your family members have a passing acquaintance with the term "London Blitz"?

:scared: :beer: :beer:

[T_i_B]

5. Quite a few places in Britain got Blitzed.

It's bad enough with events in Istanbul at the moment.

[Socialist Christian]

2. This is the definition of Perfidy<nt>

[lovedems]

3. I read an article a couple days ago in the newspaper that an Italian

working with "coalition to rebuild Iraq" resigned his position and slammed the US in the process. He said the US didn't have a plan and that people were not included in decisions and intelligence. The article made him sound pretty pissed off!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Wow. No wonder no one wants to play with us. Enlightening piece.

Thanks for the link.