Even if true, hardly necessary to tell the enemy. Bruce http://www.smh. <http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/australian-secret-agents-fight-alqaeda/200 6/09/09/1157222384437.html> com.au/news/world/australian-secret-agents-fight-alqaeda/2006/09/09/11572223 84437.html# Our secret agents fight al-Qaeda September 10, 2006 A TEAM of secret agents bringing together the US, Australia and four other countries to fight al-Qaeda has been based in Paris since 2003, France-Info radio has reported. The existence of the team, codenamed Alliance Base, was reported last year by The Washington Post newspaper but officials have never confirmed the report. France-Info said it had access to documents that referred to the creation of the secret cell in 2003. The base was made up of secret agents from the US, with the CIA and the FBI represented; Britain, with MI5 and MI6 agents; Canada, Australia, Germany and France, the station said. The cell was partly funded by the CIA. France-Info said the documents provided the location of Alliance Base at L'Ecole Militaire in Paris's chic 7th district. The arrest of a German man, Christian Ganczarski, who was described by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as a ranking al-Qaeda member with contacts with Osama bin Laden, was attributed to Alliance Base by The Washington Post. The newspaper, which cited anonymous US and European intelligence sources, said the base was set up to track the transnational movement of terror suspects. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of a counter-terrorism blueprint has disappointed many nations because it does not include a definition or say anything about states that commit terrorist acts. The document, adopted by consensus, is the result of a year of often bitter work to meet world leaders' demands that the UN help its 192 members fight the scourge. Much of the strategy, distributed yesterday, repeats previous commitments, for example, promises to implement earlier General Assembly and Security Council resolutions. Yet there are some nuggets that are considered useful, including suggestions that the UN and member nations develop a database on "biological incidents" to counter the threat of bio-terror, take measures to combat terrorism on the internet and clamp down on the counterfeiting of travel documents.
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