MP Michael Meacher: MI6 may thwart London bombing investigation

[Minstrel Boy]

Britain now faces its own blowback

Intelligence interests may thwart the July bombings investigation

Michael Meacher
Saturday September 10, 2005
The Guardian

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Less well known is evidence of the British government's relationship with a wider Islamist terrorist network. During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo. Since July Scotland Yard has been interested in an alleged member of al-Muhajiroun, Haroon Rashid Aswat, who some sources have suggested could have been behind the London bombings.

According to Loftus, Aswat was detained in Pakistan after leaving Britain, but was released after 24 hours. He was subsequently returned to Britain from Zambia, but has been detained solely for extradition to the US, not for questioning about the London bombings. Loftus claimed that Aswat is a British-backed double agent, pursued by the police but protected by MI6.

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The Observer Research Foundation has argued that there are even "grounds to suspect that the London blasts were orchestrated by Omar Sheikh from his jail in Pakistan".... Why then is Omar Sheikh not being dealt with when he is already under sentence of death? Astonishingly his appeal to a higher court against the sentence was adjourned in July for the 32nd time and has since been adjourned indefinitely. This is all the more remarkable when this is the same Omar Sheikh who, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI's financial crimes unit.

Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: "To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance" - a statement of breathtaking disingenuousness.

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1566919,00.html

[moodforaday]

1. Thanks and kick and

pull hair from head...

[pretzel4gore]

2. if you really wanna get to bottom of this

get both blair and bush in a room, with hot light and old fashioned copper who knows how to use a nightstick :)
them two punks would rat out each other in a minute, and save western society billions!

[ComerPerro]

5. Separate rooms, then

That way you can convince them to testify by saying that the other one is going to cut a deal and rat them out.

[moodforaday]

3. Oh and btw, Minstrel Boy

I'd really like to see your take on this, if you will:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4714868&mesg_id=4715342

[Minstrel Boy]

4. done! n/t

[moodforaday]

8. Thank you

I must say I'm haunted by the picture you have on your blog of Poppy with the yellow pyramid in hs lap. You've disturbed a lot of minds, man :)

[seemslikeadream]

6. Hey MB

You have more important things to do, don't you?

[Minstrel Boy]

7. well,

I'm holding one of them on my lap while I'm typing, slowly, with one hand. :)