Doubts over FBI arrest of Hendon's 'Arthur Daley'

[QuietStorm]

Intelligence experts question sting that led to arrest of British man for selling missile to 'terrorists'

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"Affable", "an Arthur Daley", "never interested in politics", "sell anything he could put his hands on", "Mr Average", "quiet".

Hemant Lakhani, the 68-year-old British man arrested last week for allegedly smuggling an anti-aircraft missile into the United States, was portrayed to the American public via the nation's TV screens as a US-baiting, politically motivated international arms dealer.

But the picture of him pieced together by The Independent on Sunday reveals a bumbling rogue caught up in an elaborate sting.

People who knew him during his time in Hendon, in north London, where he had lived since the early Eighties, describe him as an ordinary, middle-class man with connections to Britain's Hindu community. Others called him an "idiot".

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=434459

[jamesinca]

1. It was nothing but a photo-op for Bush on the pig farm

he was up there thumping his chest about how good the national security is during a news conference right after this happened.