Revealed: British bomber had links with al-Qa'ida

[lovuian]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article299680.ece

Revealed: British bomber had links with al-Qa'ida
Luton station, 7.21am Thursday 7 July 2005: Four bombers set out for London
By Francis Elliott, Raymond Whitaker, Paul Lashmar and Severin Carrell
Published: 17 July 2005
Dramatic new evidence linking al-Qa'ida to the London attacks has emerged as a terrorist in US custody identified one of the bombers.

The al-Qa'ida aide, who attended a "terror summit" in the tribal areas of Pakistan last year, told investigators in America that he recognised Mohammed Sidique Khan, the 30-year-old who triggered a bomb at Edgware Road station. Mohammed Junaid Babar, 29, is reported to have picked out Khan after being shown photographs of the four suicide bombers who killed at least 55 people in the 7 July outrage.

Babar, a Pakistani-American computer expert, was arrested on his return to the US from the al-Qa'ida summit in Waziristan. He has admitted a string of charges, including helping a foiled plot to bomb restaurants, pubs and railway stations in Britain, and has subsequently provided authorities with valuable information about the worldwide terrorist network.

Khan, a teaching assistant from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is known to have had links with an individual who came to police attention during an anti-terrorist operation in March last year. Germaine Lindsay, another of the London bombers, is reported to have had links with terror suspects in New Jersey and to be on a US "watch list".

The connections undermine claims that the bombers were "clean skins" - recruits with no previous links to terrorism - and will lead to renewed calls for an official inquiry into apparent intelligence failures. Police and security agencies are at loggerheads over claims that an al-Qa'ida suspect who could have masterminded the attack, and who entered Britain two weeks before the bombings, was not followed. Senior detectives insisted they would not be distracted from what they believe is a race against time to prevent a second attack.

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[Maple]

1. "a terrorist in US custody identified one of the bombers"

Well I'm convinced now. :sarcasm:

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Woah

you mean US sat on this for so long and only talk when it go kaboom.
Haha so desparate to link it to Al qaaqaa.

[allemand]

7. No.

"Mohammed Junaid Babar, 29, is reported to have picked out Khan after being shown photographs of the four suicide bombers".

Obviously, they could have shown him the photographs only after the attack had already happened.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Wonder how they "convinced" him to point out the alleged bomber?

[LibertyorDeath]

4. What was the Amperage on the Electrodes to get this bogus shit?

[progressivebydesign]

5. But Blair said that al Qaida was not a group.. but an idealology..

Makes no sense.

[alittlelark]

6. Hmmmm, uh yeah......

<The al-Qa'ida aide, who attended a "terror summit" in the tribal areas of Pakistan last year>

'TERROR SUMMIT'???? WTF?

Not buying any of what they are selling




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