[ April 18, 2024 ]
A bumbling French spy inadvertently texted the target of an investigation — a radical cleric — and in so doing, tipped him off to the fact he was the target of the investigation.
The spy let him know he was under surveillance. Seriously.
It’s like a Pink Panther movie — only with radical terrorist ends.
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The Independent has the story:
A French intelligence agent accidentally texted a suspected extremist preacher to say he was under surveillance, crippling his own investigation, it has been reported.
The spy tried to send secret information to a colleague, but tipped off his quarry instead by mixing up their phone numbers, it is said, leaving bosses furious at what French media labelled a “monumental blunder”.
The preacher, a suspected Islamist extremist in the Ile-de-France region, which includes the French capital, Paris, mocked the officer by phoning him back minutes later, The Local reported.
He was under investigation by France’s central territorial intelligence service, but the errant text also scuppered a similar probe by the country’s main spy agency, the DGSI.
France is on high alert following a string of terror attacks in recent years, with a state of emergency still in effect after it was instituted following the 2015 Paris attacks.
t is due to remain in place until the end of October, but President Emmanuel Macron plans to enshrine a number of its provisions into law.
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20 Comments
6 years ago
Accident? No, more of a deliberate, this way the investigation will be called off, allowing for more money to bring in more terrorists.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Or maybe the investigator was a fellow muslum using the “oops, my bad” excuse.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
That would make sense, would be easy enough to sign the investigation to a muslim, knowing the results would be quite predictable.
6 years ago
woop woop woop, wise guy eh?
6 years ago
Too bad the Muslims didn’t behead him.
The “spy” is useless.
6 years ago
Was the name of the spy Abdullah or Mohammad?
6 years ago
Reply to
St. Michael Defend Us
R U saying the kafir al najjis can’t trust muslum law enforcement to protect them from muslum terrorism and rape?
You islamofauxb!
6 years ago
In the “Spy 101” manual, it says keep your communication of your targets separate from your command. That means, having separate phones for who you are investigating from who you work for. Wow. Perhaps the spy will see his jihadi target again very soon when he serves him up a grande latte at Starbuck’s.
D
6 years ago
This is funny as I do this all the time, though it isn’t as serious when I do it, though pretty damned close occasionally. Texting is dangerous or not a good idea in so many ways. The amount of mis-communication that I experience is more than enough reason to avoid texting whenever possible.
6 years ago
Hmmm…. I don’t believe it was an accident. French are too dumb for that.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
“Frogs” are incompetent and cowardly. I understand that the Leclerc, their MBT (main battle tank) has one forward and four reverse speeds…
6 years ago
No telling what will happen the French next, They’ve been cursed since the end of Napoleon.
6 years ago
Sounds like something a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s law enforcement training and research center would do. They love them some jihadis. But they love running Washington’s jihad lottery for citizens of America, best of all!
6 years ago
Refugee? Priority hire.
6 years ago
I assume the “spy” has been relieved of his duties.
D
6 years ago
Obama was always upfront with them.
6 years ago
The “Radical Cleric” Will Get An Extreme Apology….Then A FAT CHECK From The Leaderless Taxpayers.
6 years ago
This can they be so sure it was an accident. Maybe he was lying about it. Taqiya anyone?
