I'd imagine the spooks have a file on respect but a hardly a priority.
I imagine direct action groups get more coverage because if your paranoid they make great cover for someone intent on more serious mayhem.
Wasn't there some story doing the rounds in the early 1980 about some community bus project outing a special branch officer who infiltrated its management board and turned out the guy was also involved in some tenants associations as well.you say that but they have been known to infiltrate harmless groups seemingly just because.
problem with George is though, its hard to believe a word he says unless its 'I love being George Galloway'
The Telegraph "finding" those papers in Iraq that seemed to implicate him in stealing from his charities always stank.I would be very surprised if there hadn't been a state operation aimed at getting dirt on, discrediting and/or sabotaging Galloway. Whether what he describes is it, though, I couldn't say.
Where have I heard that before.Sounds to me like this guy was having a thing with this woman working for Galloway and just took the opportunity to have a poke around. But who know what is really going on, if anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLnuS5nTNzs&feature=related…MI5 went crazy during the eighties about anarchists and Trotskyists, having lists of people…
Is there any truth in this assessment of the reason for Salma Yakoob's resignation from RESPECT!
Or is this even more Baloney?
'Salma Yaqoob resigned because of the way she was treated by members claiming to be speaking on George Galloway's behalf. The individuals involved has been exposed as an infiltrator. He is a racist and he claims he is being accused of being an MI5 agent. More proof that the recent destruction of Respect has its roots in state infiltration.'
there's a Mail story:Did anyone read that really weird story in Fortean Times about Galloway and the homosexual ghost in house in Streatham? Curious business.
CONDUCT OF AFIZ KHAN, A SENIOR METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICER IN THE COUNTER-TERRORISM BRANCH S015
Session: 2012-13
Date tabled: 15.10.2012
Primary sponsor: Galloway, George
Sponsors:
That this House expresses its concern at the involvement of a very senior officer in the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism branch SO15 in an apparent dirty tricks operation against the hon. Member for Bradford West; notes that the officer, Afiz Khan, entered the hon. Member's London home without his knowledge or consent, the hon. Member never having met or heard of him, and he slept in the hon. Member's home; further notes that Afiz Khan sent emails to an individual in the hon. Member's office who acted as his agent; further notes he co-ordinated this operation from his police email account and from at least two other fake email accounts, duping, amongst others, the Guardian newspaper as to his true identity; further notes that he operated under an alias against the hon. Member on Facebook and elsewhere, all the while concealing that he was a senior serving police officer at Scotland Yard; and asks the Home Secretary to make an urgent statement to Parliament on these matters.
Scotland Yard is investigating claims a senior anti-terrorism officer slept with a female aide of George Galloway at the politician's London home without his knowledge
She says the two wed in a Muslim ceremony in 2009 and have had an on-off, hush-hush relationship ever since. She is furious that their relationship is being presented as somehow illicit.
there's some difference between reading what's written and taking it at face value.Am I reading this right:
He knew she lived in the apartment:
" Ali-Khan's parliamentary laptop was stolen from Galloway's home in Streatham, south London, where she lived for a few months while the constituency office was being set up in Bradford."
She put this guy down on her vetting form as her husband:
"she listed Khan as her spouse on the security clearance questionnaire she filled in to gain a parliamentary pass when she began her job in April, after Galloway's sensational win for Respect in the Bradford West byelection. Her marriage certificate was included in the forms Galloway signed."
And Galloway is taking the fact that the guy either popped round and had a piss in the apartment, or was staying the night sometimes, as proof that the secret service are spying on him?
She says she was upfront about his job- how credible does that sound?
I would be very surprised if there hadn't been a state operation aimed at getting dirt on, discrediting and/or sabotaging Galloway.
good point, well made. None the less, there's some stretch between a friend in the Met and an overnight guest from the Muslim affairs bit of SO15. Not that I've any experience of either.Judging by GG's own statement, it sounds entirely credible. After all, she was the person who introduced him to GG as a policeman friend who could help look at security:
"Ms A then said that she had a ‘friend’ in the Met who could advise on security."
I'm really struggling with Galloway's logic here. It takes some really bizzare form of double bluff to try to plant someone in Galloway's path by saying to him "this is my friend who's the policeman I told you about", who in turn tells Galloway that he's been staying at the flat a few times, etc...especially when apparently Galloway's personal assistant was already an agent privy to his secrets, etc.
So, to recap. Do I find more plausible:
1) a really, really twisty conspiracy theory where those trying to infiltrate his party publicly declare their roles, that they've been in his flat, etc...when they already have a trusted person in a key role in his party, or
2) that Galloway is an attention whore who could really do with some new drama that will help take the focus away from his recent "sexual etiquette", resignation of Yaqoob, resignation of Hudson publicity.
Jasper and Galloway, eh. They do at least deserve one another.
(I think that was supposed to be a joke)ps please please can the printer and/or postman sue...! They've been accused of electoral fraud.