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LONDON — The British Intelligence agency MI5 used a range of astonishing new weapons in its all-out war against al-Qaida in the north of England, a campaign that succeeded in defusing an alleged terror plot, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Security Service operation — personally directed by its 50-year-old head, Jonathan Evans, from its newly opened regional headquarters in northwest England — tested for the first time a range of unusual weapons created by its A4 surveillance division.
Some women as old as 70 reportedly wore cameras in their hair, and young mothers with babies had recording equipment in prams.
Both groups underwent a crash course before they became members of the long investigation into the largest campaign plotted by al-Qaida since the London bombings.
Some of the elderly women walked the streets where terror suspects are known to live in Manchester and other northern cities, which were raided by MI5 last week. Ostensibly, the women are walking their dogs or going shopping. But they have miniature recorders hidden in their hair or beneath a headscarf.
The cameras are linked to a state-of-the-art surveillance van parked in the vicinity. These are manned 24/7 by electronic specialists and are linked directly to another unit which specializes in triangulation — the location of a terrorist’s cell phone between two or more masts.
The recorders used by the “granny squad” are also linked to GCHQ, the government eavesdropping center in Cheltenham.
The prams are a self-contained mobile surveillance unit. Beneath a real live baby, the stroller is fitted with the latest range of recording equipment.
Hidden under the baby’s covers is one of the latest developments by the MI5 scientists. It is a colorless chemical which can be “painted” on a suspect’s clothing by another MI5 team — known as BS-1, the Burglar Specialists. They break into a suspect’s home while he or she is out. They then spray the long-lasting chemical onto a shoe, skirt, jacket or trousers.
MI- trained dogs can detect and follow the chemical.
It was those dogs that pursued the 12 Pakistani students now in custody as they photographed the shopping area in Manchester that MI5 feared was to be a prime target.
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