Mr Michael Fallon is under pressure to resign after the Ministry of Defence published a list of serving commissioned military personnel online.
The story has been reported on Russia Today, in The Sun and International Business Times, to name but three.
The list contains 20,000 names, with rank and number, of every regular serving officer, reservist officer and university military trainee.
Coming as Anjem Choudary was jailed for encouraging Muslims to join IS, the posting has been described as ‘a huge security blunder’.
Reservist Major Chris Green left the forces last year but his name is still on the list. He said the publication was a gift for Islamic State. He said: “This is a serious security threat when Isis and other groups are looking to target individuals. It is actually a pretty terrifying error. They are putting national security at risk in many ways.”
HIGH-STATUS TARGETS
In 2013, Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered by two home-grown extremists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, in Greenwich, London. The young men, both brought up in Christian families, tragically converted to Islam and were radicalised by Anjem Choudary.
In July this year (2016), a Royal Air Force serviceman was the target of an attempted abduction near RAF Marham in Norfolk. The serviceman successfully fought off the attackers but police are still hunting two suspects.
We have been unable to date to find the list ourselves, but IS geeks will have little trouble locating it. As it contains officers rather than the 175,000 other ranks, it will provide high-status targets.
The news channels listed above have not given a link to the list, displaying more concern for British service personnel than the MOD.
FOOLISH
The Bible says: Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
The Ministry of Defence, under the leadership of its Secretary of Defence, Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, is by that standard foolish.
Mr Fallon has done much to prolong the suffering in Syria, helping to arm jihadist rebels. He survived Theresa May’s opening reshuffle, but surely the time has come to replace him with a more able man whose God-fearing nature leads to care and consideration for the military personnel under his command.
Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
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imo, not an accident