Selected articles appearing in UK newspapers Saturday 12th 2012
May 14th, 2012 by l.seddon
Daily Telegraph
David Cameron and Francois Hollande heading for showdown over French withdrawal from Afghanistan
James Kirkup
British agent in underpants bomb plot had been working undercover ‘for up to a year’
Duncan Gardham and Tom Whitehead
The replacement for the Harrier is not so much a jump-jet, more a flop [Letters]
David Wragg, et al.
Guardian
Underwear bomb plot: British and US intelligence rattled over leaks
Ewen MacAskill and Ian Black
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/underwear-bomb-plot-mi6-cia-leaks
Independent
Leaks that revealed British agent’s role in foiled bomb plot investigated by FBI
Rupert Cornwell
Times
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Careless talk costs lives [al-Qaeda intelligence] [Leading Article]
on Page 2
‘Disgraceful’ bomb plot leaks will put agents’ lives in danger
Deborah Haynes, Michael Evans and Sean O’Neill
on Page 14
Breach of faith that broke two unwritten rules [Comments]
Richard Beeston
on Page 15
Nobody can pull off a double cross quite like the Brits
Ben Macintyre
on Page 15
Afghan ’soldier’ kills American
on Page 38
Serco extends nuclear warhead contract
on Page 43
Bold pioneers who got the Army off the ground [Military Matters]
Allan Mallinson
on Page 81
News in brief [Military Matters]
on Page 81
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