surprising information about the mastermind behind the London bombings.

[helderheid]

http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/iblog/C168863457/E162650694/

'He Was Working for British Intelligence'


J$P Instant Transcript! John Loftus and Mansoor Ijaz with surprising information about the mastermind behind the London bombings.

From Dayside with Linda Vester, July 29 2005:

MIKE JERRICK : John Loftus is a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the Justice Department. John, good to see you again. So real quickly here, have you heard anything about this Osman Hussain who was just picked up in Rome? You know that name at all?

JOHN LOFTUS: Yeah, all these guys should be going back to an organization called Al-Muhajiroun, which means The Emigrants. It was the recruiting arm of Al-Qaeda in London; they specialized in recruiting kids whose families had emigrated to Britain but who had British passports. And they would use them for terrorist work.

JERRICK: So a couple of them now have Somali connections?

LOFTUS: Yeah, it was not unusual. Somalia, Eritrea, the first group of course were primarily Pakistani. But what they had in common was they were all emigrant groups in Britain, recruited by this Al-Muhajiroun group. They were headed by the, Captain Hook, the imam in London the Finsbury Mosque, without the arm. He was the head of that organization. Now his assistant was a guy named Aswat, Haroon Rashid Aswat.

JERRICK: Aswat, who they picked up.

LOFTUS: Right, Aswat is believed to be the mastermind of all the bombings in London.

JERRICK: On 7/7 and 7/21, this is the guy we think.

LOFTUS: This is the guy, and what's really embarrassing is that the entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British government, MI6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him. And this has been a real source of contention between the CIA, the Justice Department, and Britain.

JERRICK: MI6 has been hiding him. Are you saying that he has been working for them?

LOFTUS: Oh I'm not saying it. This is what the Muslim sheik said in an interview in a British newspaper back in 2001.

JERRICK: So he's a double agent, or was?

LOFTUS: He's a double agent.

JERRICK: So he's working for the Brits to try to give them information about Al-Qaeda, but in reality he's still an Al-Qaeda operative.

LOFTUS: Yeah. The CIA and the Israelis all accused MI6 of letting all these terrorists live in London not because they're getting Al-Qaeda information, but for appeasement. It was one of those you leave us alone, we leave you alone kind of things.

JERRICK: Well we left him alone too long then.

LOFTUS: Absolutely. Now we knew about this guy Aswat. Back in 1999 he came to America. The Justice Department wanted to indict him in Seattle because him and his buddy were trying to set up a terrorist training school in Oregon.


More of the interview here:
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/iblog/C168863457/E162650694/

[bryant69]

1. That information may not end up being complete

Particularly the part about appeasement- which is always a nice touch.

It just sounds a little like "Somalia offered Bill Clinton Osama Bin Ladin's head on a platter, but he didn't take it."

Of course it might turn out to be accurate.

Bryant
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[helderheid]

2. I got the link from a Dutch website - it also talked about the

explosions coming up from underneath as if the bombs were attached to the underside of the trains and the bus.

http://www.daanspeak.com/LondonAttack04.html

[bryant69]

3. So are you taking this as evidence of MIHOP or LIHOP

In the case of the london bombings?

[helderheid]

4. MIHOP or LIHOP but I suspect MIHOP