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http://washtimes.com/upi/20060203-013624-7223r.htm
Leaky Dutch lose military secrets -- again
Feb. 3, 2006 at 1:56PM
NATO allies will be relieved at the Dutch decision to deploy extra
troops to Afghanistan Thursday but dismayed at The Hague's
carelessness with sensitive data.
Just hours after the Dutch parliament voted by a large
majority to send 1,400 troops to support a NATO-led peacekeeping
operation in the volatile southern province of Afghanistan, media in
The Hague revealed that top-secret information had been left in a
rented car for the second time in as many months.
In December, a member of the Dutch secret service left
computer discs containing highly sensitive information in a lease
car. The discs were subsequently sent to a well-known investigative
reporter who broadcast some of the data on television.
Dutch newspapers Friday reported a second embarrassing slip
for security services in the Netherlands, which has prevaricated
about whether to send extra troops to Afghanistan for over two months.
According to the NIS news agency, an army captain who spent
five months in Afghanistan last year left a USB stick containing
highly sensitive information about Dutch military movements in a
rental car. The captain has since been suspended after it was
discovered two boys who found the stick copied the data onto their computers.
Labor lawmaker Frans Timmermans railed that "the defense
organization is as leaky as a sieve," while conservative members of
parliament said allies might be reluctant to share classified
information with military and intelligence services that have proved so leaky.
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