Intel chief dispatches ruthless hunters

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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans

LONDON – The head of the British Security Service, MI5, is taking a personal role in a hunt for the attackers who shot and killed two British soldiers in Northern Ireland over the weekend – and making it clear he wants results by assigning the most ruthless man-hunting unit at his disposal, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Jonathan Evans has dispatched Company Fourteen, known within MI5 as “The Operators,” an organization with which Evans himself worked during his own service in Northern Ireland in the 1980s.

Evans, 50, then was in charge of counterterrorism there.

The two soldiers were off-duty when they were attacked by gunmen. They were identified as Sapper Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Sapper Patrick Azimkar, 21, from Wood Green, north London.

They both were due to leave for Afghanistan within days.

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Authorities report two other military personnel and two pizza delivery men also were seriously injured in the shooting, in which the attackers fired more than 60 shots.

When Evans succeeded Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller as head of the Security Service, he made sure Company Fourteen’s role under his direction in Ulster remained a top secret.

One of its former members, James Rennie, who was a detachment operations officer in the unit, has provided the only hint of how The Operators work.

“It is as deadly as the SAS, yet more secret, and is Britain’s most effective weapon against terrorism. It has at its disposal an arsenal of techniques and weapons unmatched by any other government or military agency,” he has said.

Company Fourteen has approximately 50 members who have served in MI5 or have been recruited from the SAS or British Army Intelligence.

There have been persistent claims within the closed world of the Security Service that the unit was part of the “shoot-to-kill” policy in Ulster.

Company Fourteen is known to have a number of women agents. They specialize in infiltration and surveillance. They also find “assets” – informers within subversive groups.

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