Indian men from Punjab being smuggled to UK via Moscow and Belgium. Two of those arrested alleged by prosecutors to be the core of the network, controlling lots of little groups, sometimes playing them off against each other.

Washington Post piece on web conflicts between Sunni and Shia, interference by Western security agencies and possible attacks by individual hackers. Something going on out there. Not clear quite what, but the effect has been to take the majority of al Qaeda propaganda off-line.

So when are they going to introduce bicycle licenses…and registration plates? I suppose it will happen once CCTV has become ubiquitous. I can remember John Alderson years ago, as his opening joke, suggesting tongue in cheek that one day there would be a female Labour Home Secretary that would empower police officers to check whether … PASSPORTS WILL BE NEEDED TO BUY MOBILE PHONES

I suppose if theres a monetary exchange value for it, someone will nick it…Or is that being neo-liberal?

The Sun will have a better headline than this tomorrow. Another factor to be taken into account in studies of Neolithic trade routes.

Hmmm. So Osama bin Laden has unintentionally assisted white collar crime in the US by conning the FBI into transferring a third of its agents to terrorism and intelligence duites. Yeah, sure. As you get to the end of the article it becomes clear that senior figures in the Bush Administration thought the FBI investigations … FBI STRUGGLES TO HANDLE WAVE OF FINANCIAL FRAUD CASES

The website was used by criminals to buy and sell credit card details and bank logins. 60 people arrested so far. According to FiveLive, the website included tutorials on how to commit fraud.

Bet he wont be designated and have his assets seized! All allegations of course, but then so were yesterday’s against the Chavez aides. Demonstrates another dimension to that designation….Timing! “A plague on both your houses” is the only way to run a counter=insurgency campaign long-term…and a counter organised crime strategy. Try to use people one … WITNESS TIES COLOMBIAN GENERAL TO PARAMILITARIES

Allegedly linked to the UVF. Story still developing.

Lets see now…a country that has failed to guarantee the political independence of its anti fraud investigative agency, has failed to implement the OECD Convention against corruption….any other country but the UK would find itself blacklisted by a majority of international organisations. Why havent we done it?