The French have gone to war

[Cain]

Probably the former.  I mean, the Cold War only had simplicity enforced on it by the (false dichotomy) of the bipolar relationship between the USA and USSR.  Check out the career of one Iveno Azev if you want to see how this isn't necessarily confined to modern times.

[Pergamos]

Can't find Iveno Azev on google or wikipedia, any chance you could provide a link to info?

[Cain]

Huh, how odd.

He was a Russian spy. He was also the leader of the "Battle Organisation" of the Social Revolutionaries.  He was intimately involved in the planning and execution of several high level assassination attempts, including that of the head of the political section of the secret police, the Minister for the Interior, and Duke Sergei Alexandrovitch, the Tsar's uncle and chief of the Moscow Military District.  The Tsar himself was a target for assassination by the time of his arrest.  The magnitude and scale of his crimes were so great that, when it was revealed he was an agent provocateur for the police, the claim was initially met with disbelief.

For his troubles, he got a cool 14,000 rubles a year.  Whose side was he really on?  Who knows?

Ah, here we go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevno_Azef

Stupid Russians and their stupid alternate spellings.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Huh, how odd.

He was a Russian spy. He was also the leader of the "Battle Organisation" of the Social Revolutionaries.  He was intimately involved in the planning and execution of several high level assassination attempts, including that of the head of the political section of the secret police, the Minister for the Interior, and Duke Sergei Alexandrovitch, the Tsar's uncle and chief of the Moscow Military District.  The Tsar himself was a target for assassination by the time of his arrest.  The magnitude and scale of his crimes were so great that, when it was revealed he was an agent provocateur for the police, the claim was initially met with disbelief.

For his troubles, he got a cool 14,000 rubles a year.  Whose side was he really on?  Who knows?

Ah, here we go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevno_Azef

Stupid Russians and their stupid alternate spellings.

Any country who thinks it's okay to stick back to front capital E's in the middle of words deserves everything they have coming to them as far as I'm concerned 

[Cain]

Also consider the career of one Ronald Hadley Stark.

[Cain]

Another Algerian intelligence asset (former/current status unknown) hath been snuffed.

BBC News:

Islamist commander Abdelhamid Abou Zeid has been killed in fighting in Mali, the French presidency has confirmed.

Abou Zeid was a senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

Earlier, the French newspaper Le Monde said DNA samples had made it possible to formally identify Abou Zeid.

Let us recall what Jeremy Keenan said:

In the case of AQIM in the Sahara-Sahel, now known as al-Qaeda in the Sahel (AQIS) or the 'Sahara Emirate' ('Imarat Essahra'), it is difficult to distinguish between the latter two. Of the AQIS's alleged leaders, Abdelhamid abou Zaïd, Yahia Djouadi (and their many aliases) and Mokhtar ben Mokhtar (MBM) all have linkages to the DRS. Abdelhamid abou Zaïd is closely associated with the DRS, being El Para's 'number two' in the 2003 operation; Djouadi was also a member of El Para's team, while MBM has a more 'freelance' relationship with the DRS.

In short, the AQIS is the latest manifestation of the DRS' successful creation and infiltration of Islamic 'terrorist' groups, in much the same way that the GIA leadership was infiltrated by DRS agents Djamel Zitouni and Antar Zouabri in the 1990s. In the case of the GIA's successor, the GSPC founder Hassan Hattab now lives under the protection of the DRS.

Abdelhamid abou Zaïd is of course an alternate spelling of Abdelhamid Abou Zeid.

[Cain]

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