England-based intel center fully operational

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England-based intel center fully operational
By Bryan Mitchell, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, December 11, 2007

RAF MOLESWORTH, England — Earlier this year the seizure of Korean aid workers set in motion an effort to free the hostages that stretched from embassies in Seoul, South Korea, and Kabul, Afghanistan, to the mountainous badlands of Afghanistan and back to this Royal Air Force base.

At RAF Molesworth, officials at the newly minted NATO Intelligence Fusion Center provided critical imagery to German military officials participating in the search effort.

Twenty-three Korean volunteer workers were kidnapped by the Taliban on July 19. Insurgents killed two male hostages but later freed the rest.

The abductions were an early test of the Intelligence Fusion Center, where officials from 21 of 26 NATO nations have converged to create a new brand of intelligence, according to IFC commander U.S. Army Col. James E. Cashwell.

“We were able to get imagery to German pilots and crew that proved vital in their mission,” Cashwell said. “That just wasn’t possible before the IFC.”


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