Jihadi released

[k-robjoe]

"Jihadi who helped train 7/7 bomber freed by US after just five years.

Exclusive: Release prompts claim Islamist was US informant while assisting London terrorist.

An American jihadist who set up the terrorist training camp where the leader of the 2005 London suicide bombers learned how to manufacture explosives, has been quietly released after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence, a Guardian investigation has learned.

The unreported sentencing of Mohammed Junaid Babar to "time served" because of what a New York judge described as "exceptional co-operation" that began even before his arrest has raised questions over whether Babar was a US informer at the time he was helping to train the ringleader of the 7 July tube and bus bombings.

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Further inquiries uncovered allegations from a top US terrorism lawyer who has reviewed sealed evidence in the case which suggests Babar could have been working for the US authorities before his arrest in April 2004.

Having reviewed the court transcript himself, bereaved father Graham Foulkes said: 'There's a hint from one or two of the sentences that do strongly suggest co-operation was going well beyond his official arrest. And it looks as if the Americans may well have known in detail what Babar was up to in Pakistan and that is a very, very serious matter.' "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/13/jihadi-train-7-7-bomber-freed

[k-robjoe]

1. New article today

The article in the OP was written yesterday. But now I find that the same journalist has written a new article today :

"The al-Qaida supergrass and the 7/7 questions that remain unanswered. The early release of a jihadi turned US supergrass who helped a London bomber has rung alarm bells. Shiv Malik reports on doubts held by the victims' families."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/14/al-qaida-supergrass-77-questions