Looks Like the US needs to follow suit.

Britain wants more Muslim, Hindu spies

LONDON: They are not quite the prototype of Ian Fleming's Martini-drinking, Aston Martin-tooling, macho English playboy secret agent James Bond, but Britain's desperately-seeking, mainly-white foreign and domestic intelligence services have launched an unusual publicity drive to recruit Muslim and Hindu agents by allowing a few of the existing handful to speak out about their lives.
 
In a rare bid to open up its work to the world's curious gaze, MI5 allowed one agent calling herself 'Jayshree' and another with the assumed name 'Shahzad' to talk about their work.
 
The recorded interviews, conducted at MI5's headquarters in the British capital, are the first in the organisation's nearly-100-year history. In the process, 'Jayshree' and 'Shahzad' are seen to have become walking "sandwich boards" for the British secret services as they try and interest younger members of the two-million strong Asian community in a life a la 007.
 
The interviews wax eloquent about second-generation immigrants' burning desire to give back to the host country by going underground and ferreting out potentially-explosive information on sleeper terrorist cells and other threats.
 
Just hours after the interviews were broadcast on the BBC's Asia Network radio station, whose heavy diet of Bollywood songs and sub-continental news is targeted at Asians, sections of the community admitted it was an eye-catching initiative by the security services.
 
MI5's current haul of black and ethnic minority staff stands at 6.5 per cent and the new publicity drive is seen as more than just another shard of political correctness. The intelligence services have long admitted their need for agents who belong to immigrant communities in order to identify potential threats to the UK.
 
But MI5's decision to showcase at least one agent bearing a Hindu moniker is seen to be part of its attempt to reassure British Muslims they are not the only targets of the enhanced drive to infiltrate immigrant communities.
Both 'Jayshree' and 'Shahzad' affirmed that their MI5 work was not about targeting specific religious or racial communities but about tracking individuals who might mean harm to their host country.
 
Agent 'Jayshree', who analyses intelligence from domestic and overseas sources, described her double life as an exercise in discretion. She said, "When out with friends or relations I tend to be quite vague about my work - I don't want the unnecessary attention". But as a good Asian girl, she admitted her parents were in on the secret but had never been "as excited or interested" as she thought they would be.
 
MI5, whose chief Jonathan Evans recently declared that at least 2,000 potential terrorists were on the run in the UK, plans to increase its 3,000-strong workforce to 4,000 by 2011. It wants a significant proportion of them to be Hindu, Muslim and Sikh, thus raising the possibility of Agents Amar, Akbar and Anmol Singh increasingly becoming a reality. 
 

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