INTERESTING : New MI5 boss is top "expert" on Al-Qaeda!?

According to David Leppard in The Sunday Times the replacement for Eliza Manningham-Bull-*-er is someone called Jonathan Evans. Apparently Evans

"has tracked Al-Qaeda’s activities in Britain since the organisation first emerged as a threat to this country",

and

"Evans is a career spy with a background in fighting terror. He served as head of G branch, MI5’s international terrorism section, making him the agency’s then supremo in dealing with the emerging Al-Qaeda threat. Before that he served as a senior officer in Northern Ireland, helping to spearhead the fight against the IRA."

Evans wouldn't have known everything that EMB would hve known, but the inverse should be true. Maybe Evans knows something about the Covenant of Security?

Leppard's report at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2508471,00.html.