Justice Department blocked prosecutors in Seattle on London Bomber

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Effort here to charge London suspect was blocked
By Hal Bernton and David Heath
Seattle Times staff reporters



Haroon Aswat, a suspect in the London bombings, once lived at a Seattle mosque.
The Justice Department blocked efforts by its prosecutors in Seattle in 2002 to bring criminal charges against Haroon Aswat, according to federal law-enforcement officials who were involved in the case.

British authorities suspect Aswat of taking part in the July 7 London bombings, which killed 56 and prompted an intense worldwide manhunt for him.

But long before he surfaced as a suspect there, federal prosecutors in Seattle wanted to seek a grand-jury indictment for his involvement in a failed attempt to set up a terrorist-training camp in Bly, Ore., in late 1999. In early 2000, Aswat lived for a couple of months in central Seattle at the Dar-us-Salaam mosque.>>>>snip

As law-enforcement officials in Seattle prepared to take that case to a federal grand jury here, they had hoped to indict Aswat, Ujaama, Abu Hamza and another associate, according to former and current law-enforcement officials with knowledge of the case.

But that plan was rejected by higher-level officials at Justice Department headquarters, who wanted most of the case to be handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City, according to sources involved with the case.>>>>snip

"It was really frustrating," said a former Justice Department official involved in the case. "Guys like that, you just want to sweep them up off the street."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002399039_aswat24m.html

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1. Note the date: 2002.

Typical BushCo fuckupalooza.

[IChing]

2. I'm not so sure if its a fuckupalooza with Justice involved

This guy was starting a camp in Oregon, and ends up involved with the London bombing?
Prosecutors were ask to lay off of this guy, meanwhile they arrest who?
He sounds like a mole or double agent.

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3. I think this is important news so shameless kick.

before it gets buried.