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ended up on an IRA death list. He also boasted that he had designed the
Polaris missile guidance system, that he was a member of the Welsh national
rugby union team and, last but not least, that he was a guitarist on the
British folk music circuit.
The only trouble was that Wilce’s yarns were just that – total fiction.
It has all proved very embarrassing for the New Zealand government, who
employed the British expat as a senior intelligence officer. Yesterday, a
special commission in New Zealand vowed that the country’s military should
never be taken in by a fake again.
(a) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351473/New-Zealandgovernment-embarrassed-employing-British-born-fantasist-seniorintelligence-officer.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
(b) http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/new-zealand-spyagency-skipped-basic-procedures-when-hiring-british-fantasist/storye6frf7jx-1225996381090
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Somali pirates extend their criminal reach
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(Examiner) Pirates off the coast of Somalia are using bigger vessels to
extend their criminal reach in a move that could prompt U.S. Navy forces in
the region to intensify techniques for pursuing the lawbreakers, according
to an American Forces Press Service report from Cheryl Pellerin.
According to Ms. Pellerin's report -- obtained by the National Association
of Chiefs of Police's Terrorism Committee -- Navy Vice Admiral Mark I. Fox,
commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the U.S. 5th Fleet, told
a group of defense reporters here that pirates have begun commandeer large
merchant ships and use them as "mother ships" to put smaller boats into
operation far from the coast and beyond the reach of the international
forces arrayed against them.
"This is the first time we've seen persistent and increased use of mother
ships -- up to eight 'pirate action groups' as we refer to them, disbursed
throughout the region," Fox said, calling this development a "game
changer."
http://www.examiner.com/public-safety-in-national/somali-pirates-extendtheir-criminal-reach-intelligence-report
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