Spy masters: Sir Mark Allen, left, former head of MI6's counter-intelligence branch; right, Gary Oldman as George Smiley Should MI6 Have Come In From The Cold? -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Newspaper revelations about the secret service’s dealings with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s spy masters would have horrified the spooks of George Smiley’s day.
In the spying game, there is no greater indignity an intelligence service can suffer than to see its secrets splashed all over the front of the morning’s newspapers. So it is not difficult to imagine the extreme discomfiture senior officers at Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (or MI6, as it is more familiarly known) are today experiencing over embarrassing revelations relating to its past involvement with Colonel Gaddafi.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
NATO strategy for Gadhafi holdouts: first leaflets, then bombs -- Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers
Did Qaddafi flee to Niger? Libyan convoy in Niger is reminder of Sahel's close ties. -- Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor
As Labour's toadying to Gaddafi's torturers is revealed... My God, the shame of Britain cosying up to these monsters -- Stephen Glover, The Daily Mail
Iran and Russia Share a Syria Headache: Noe and Raad -- Nicholas Noe and Walid Raad, Bloomberg
As Iran watches the Arab Spring, who is watching Iran? -- Sallai Meridor, Washington Post
Turkey Crisis: Unconditional U.S. Backing Has Helped Israel to Isolate Itself -- Tony Karon, Time
Israel Isolates Itself -- Roger Cohen, New York Times
Insight: In Home of Arab Spring, a Desire for More -- New York Times/Reuters
Turkey, Syria and the prospects of war -- Abdulghani Ali Yahya, Asharq Alawsat
Afghan war: What some local officials are willing to do for peace -- Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor
Lessons of the Wikileakileaks: Both Funny and Sad -- Joshua Foust, The Atlantic
Enabling Catastrophe: the NYT Serves Up Denial -- Glen Tschirgi, Captain's Journal
What impact did 9/11 have on
As Iran watches the Arab Spring, who is watching Iran? -- Sallai Meridor, Washington Post
Turkey Crisis: Unconditional U.S. Backing Has Helped Israel to Isolate Itself -- Tony Karon, Time
Israel Isolates Itself -- Roger Cohen, New York Times
Insight: In Home of Arab Spring, a Desire for More -- New York Times/Reuters
Turkey, Syria and the prospects of war -- Abdulghani Ali Yahya, Asharq Alawsat
Afghan war: What some local officials are willing to do for peace -- Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor
Lessons of the Wikileakileaks: Both Funny and Sad -- Joshua Foust, The Atlantic
Enabling Catastrophe: the NYT Serves Up Denial -- Glen Tschirgi, Captain's Journal
What impact did 9/11 have on the world? Our panel assesses the decade of international upheaval that followed the al-Qaida attacks on the US -- The Guardian
Why the 9/11 Commission was designed to fail — and didn’t -- Fred F. Fielding, Washington Post
Sept. 11, the day that never ends -- Richard Cohen, Washington Post
9/11 and the Successful War -- George Friedman, Real Clear World/Stratfor
Simply Evil: A decade after 9/11, it remains the best description and most essential fact about al-Qaida. -- Christopher Hitchens, Slate
Turkey Crisis: Unconditional U.S. Backing Has Helped Israel to Isolate Itself -- Tony Karon, Time
Israel Isolates Itself -- Roger Cohen, New York Times
Insight: In Home of Arab Spring, a Desire for More -- New York Times/Reuters
Turkey, Syria and the prospects of war -- Abdulghani Ali Yahya, Asharq Alawsat
Afghan war: What some local officials are willing to do for peace -- Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor
Lessons of the Wikileakileaks: Both Funny and Sad -- Joshua Foust, The Atlantic
Enabling Catastrophe: the NYT Serves Up Denial -- Glen Tschirgi, Captain's Journal
What impact did 9/11 have on the world? Our panel assesses the decade of international upheaval that followed the al-Qaida attacks on the US -- The Guardian
Why the 9/11 Commission was designed to fail — and didn’t -- Fred F. Fielding, Washington Post
Sept. 11, the day that never ends -- Richard Cohen, Washington Post
9/11 and the Successful War -- George Friedman, Real Clear World/Stratfor
Simply Evil: A decade after 9/11, it remains the best description and most essential fact about al-Qaida. -- Christopher Hitchens, Slate