BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"

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Subject: Re: BBC Online 24/3/2000: "MI5 laptop snatched"
Roland Perry <roland@linx.net>

> There was also an Army(?) intelligence officer who had his laptop stolen
> a few years ago when looking at secondhand cars at a garage on the A40.

You may be thinking of the RAF officer who had just come from Downing Street
and had his laptop stolen from the boot of a car while unattended for a few
minutes.  This was during the Gulf War of 1991.