There are many links to the worlds latest reports on terror news at this site.
http://www.terrorism.com/
This is the editorial page link, a good read, how the food is poisoned, and with what....
TB is running wild.
The German papers warned tourists to not stay in the large hotels in Egypt, when it was last bombed.
And a lovely version of walking with God.
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/aug/02/02082005ed.htm
**There appears to be new info in this report, goes back to the U.S. and why we didn't get them when we had a chance, the terrorists, appear to do as they please and are untouchable......granny
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050801&articleId=782
August 2, 2005
London 7/7 Terror Suspect Linked to British Intelligence?
by Michel Chossudovsky
August 1, 2005
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A British citizen named Haroon Rashid Aswat, living in Lusaka, Zambia is wanted for
questioning in relation to the 7/7 London bomb attacks.
Haroon Rashid Aswat comes from the same town in West Yorkshire, Dewsbury, where three
of the alleged bombers lived. "He is suspected of visiting the bombers in the weeks before
the attacks." (New Republic, 8 August 2005).
"Scotland Yard declined to shed any light on claims Mr Aswat was the possible
mastermind of the July 7 attacks."
Haroon Rachid Aswat is said to have played a central role in the London attacks:
"Cell phone records show around 20 calls between him and the 7/7 gang,
leading right up to those attacks, which were exactly three weeks ago." (Fox
News, 28 July 2005)
Links to British Intelligence?
The same source (Fox News) which presents Aswat as the "mastermind", also points
to Aswat's relationship to British and US intelligence, through a British based Islamic
organization Al-Muhajiroun.
In an interview with Fox News (29 July 2005), intelligence expert John Loftus revealed that
Haroon Rashid Aswat had connections to the British Secret Service MI-6 (emphasis
added): "the entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British
government, MI-6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him... "
The Loftus interview suggests that the suspect was being used either as an informer or a
"double agent":
MIKE JERRICK [FOX NEWS]: 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 MI 6 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.
JERRICK: So they indicted his buddy, right? But why didn't they indict him?
LOFTUS: Well it comes out, we've just learned that the headquarters of the
US Justice Department ordered the Seattle prosecutors not to touch
Aswat.
JERRICK: Hello? Now hold on, why?
LOFTUS: Well, apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence. Now
Aswat's boss, the one-armed Captain Hook, he gets indicted two years later.
So the guy above him and below him get indicted, but not Aswat. Now there's
a split of opinion within US intelligence. Some people say that the British
intelligence fibbed to us. They told us that Aswat was dead, and that's why
the New York group dropped the case. That's not what most of the Justice
Department thinks. They think that it was just again covering up for this
very publicly affiliated guy with Al-Muhajiroun. He was a British
intelligence plant. So all of a sudden he disappears. He's in South Africa. We
think he's dead; we don't know he's down there. Last month the South African
Secret Service come across the guy. He's alive.
JERRICK: Yeah, now the CIA says, oh he's alive. Our CIA says OK let's
arrest him. But the Brits say no again?
LOTFUS: The Brits say no. Now at this point, two weeks ago, the Brits
know that the CIA wants to get a hold of Haroon. So what happens? He
takes off again, goes right to London. He isn't arrested when he lands,
he isn't arrested when he leaves.
JERRICK: Even though he's on a watch list.
LOFTUS: He's on the watch list.The only reason he could get away with
that was if he was working for British intelligence. He was a wanted man.
JERRICK: And then takes off the day before the bombings, I understand it--
LOFTUS: And goes to Pakistan.
JERRICK: And Pakistan, they jail him.
LOFTUS: The Pakistanis arrest him. They jail him. He's released within 24
hours. Back to Southern Africa, goes to Zimbabwe and is arrested in Zambia.
Now the US--
JERRICK: Trying to get across the--
LOFTUS: --we're trying to get our hands on this guy.
JERRICK: John, hang around. I have so many questions now.
LOFTUS: Oh, this is a bad one....
(Fox News, 29 July 2005, emphasis added)
The interview conveys the impression that there were "disagreements" between American,
British and Israeli intelligence officials on how to handle the matter. It also suggests that
"the Brits" might have misled their US intelligence counterpart.
More substantively, what this interview reveals is something which news coverage on the
London 7/7 attacks has carefully ignored, namely the longstanding relationship of Western
intelligence agencies to a number of Islamic organizations. In this specific case we are
dealing with a British based organization Al-Muhajiroun.
Amply confirmed by official documents, Al Qaeda was a creation of the US intelligence
apparatus. Both the CIA and its British counterpart MI-6 are known to have links to Al
Qaeda operatives.
The Kosovo Connection
In the Balkans in the 1990s, both US, British and German intelligence (BND) were
involved in training the Kosocvo Liberation Army (KLA), which was also being supported by
Al Qaeda.
Mujahideen mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were recruited to fight in
the ranks of the KLA in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war effort.
According to a report published in 1999, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had
approached MI-6 to arrange a training program for the KLA:
"MI-6 then sub-contracted the operation to two British security companies,
who in turn approached a number of former members of the (22 SAS) regiment.
Lists were then drawn up of weapons and equipment needed by the KLA."
While these covert operations were continuing, serving members of 22 SAS
Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron, were first deployed in Kosovo
before the beginning of the bombing campaign in March [1999].(The
Scotsman, Edinburgh, 29 August 1999).
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern Albania were training the KLA, military
instructors from Turkey and Afghanistan, financed by the "Islamic jihad", were collaborating
in training the KLA in guerrilla and diversion tactics .("Kosovo in
Crisis", http://www.truthinmedia.org/, 2 April 1999)."Bin Laden had visited Albania himself.
He was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo.… Bin
Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994. ( Sunday Times, 29
Nov 1998)
Haroon Rachid Aswat belonged to Al Muhajiroun, which was involved in the recruitment of
Mujahideen in Britain. The latter were also sent to Kosovo to fight in the KLA in support of
the NATO-US led war: .
LOFTUS: .....But the US was used by Al-Muhajiroun for training of people
to send to Kosovo. What ties all these cells together was, back in the
late 1990s, the leaders all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo.
Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys
to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That's when
Al-Muhajiroun got started.
IJAZ: Which is by the way why we know so much about them right now.
LOFTUS: Yes, I'm afraid so. The CIA was funding the operation to defend the
Muslims, British intelligence was doing the hiring and recruiting. Now we have a
lot of detail on this because Captain Hook, the head of Al-Muhajiroun, he
sidekick was Bakri Mohammed, another cleric. And back on October 16, 2001,
he gave a detailed interview with al-Sharq al-Aswat, an Arabic
newspaper in London, describing the relationship between British
intelligence and the operations in Kosovo and Al-Muhajiroun. So that's
how we get all these guys connected. It started in Kosovo, Haroon was
31 years old, he came on about 1995.
The Pakistan Connection
In the last couple of weeks, the London 7/7 police investigation has focussed on
a "Pakistani connection": the alleged British bombers are said to have visited
Pakistan. While in Pakistan, they allegedly had contacts with several Islamic organizations,
including a madrassa (coranic school) controlled by Islamic fundamentalists. They
allegedly also had contacts with the two main Kashmir rebel groups Jaish-e-Mohammed
and Lashkar-e-Toiba. Two of the British bombers, Khan and Tanweer, were allegedly
"associated with Jaish -e-Mohammed or one of its splinter groups" (India Today, 1 August
2005):
"In Pakistan, [British] police are painstakingly analyzing the mobile phone
records of the two 7/7 suspects who visited the country. While officials stress
that it is a tedious process, it has already yielded the name of at least one
significant suspect: Masoud Azhar, leader of the Jaish -e-Mohammed (Army of
Mohammed). (Christian Science Monitor, 1 August, 2005).
Both Jaish and Lashkar are said to have links to Al Qaeda.
The Role Of Pakistan's Military Intelligence
In their endeavours to uncover these various links to Pakistan based terrorist
organizations, British police investigators
sought the collaboration of Pakistan's Military
Intelligence (ISI).
While collaborating in the British investigation, Pakistan's
Military Intelligence is known to have actively supported
and financed the Kasmir rebel groups, which allegedly
had contacts with the London bombers.
The ISI was instrumental in the creation of the militant
Jammu and Kashmir Hizbul Mujahideen (JKHM) in the
late 1980s. (See K. Subrahmanyam, "Pakistan is Pursuing Asian
Goals", India Abroad, 3 November 1995). It has also supported
the other two main Pakistan-based Kashmir rebel
groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba, (Army of the Pure) and
Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Mohammed), which
claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Indian
parliament in October 2001.
See Council on Foreign Relations, "Terrorism: Questions and Answers,
Harakat ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad",
http://www.terrorismanswers.com/groups/harakat2.html ,
Washington 2002.)
Moreover, according to intelligence sources and the FBI,
the ISI also provided support to the alleged 9/11
hijackers.
(See http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html )
Concluding remarks
The Fox News report raises some very serious
considerations.
Haroon Rachid Aswat was reportedly in London for two
weeks before the July 7 attacks, "fleeing just before the
explosions".
If Haroon Rashid Aswat had been working for MI-6, as
suggested by intelligence analyst John Loftus, his
movements and whereabouts, including his contacts with
the alleged Yorkshire bombers, might have been known
to British intelligence.
The nature of Haroon Rachid Aswat's links to Western
intelligence agencies inevitably has a bearing on the
conduct of the police investigation.
The broader role of Al-Muhajiroun since its creation in
the 1990s, as well as its alleged links to MI-6 requires
careful review.
Pakistan's ISI should not, for obvious reasons, be
involved in the police investigation. In fact, Pakistan's ISI
should be the object of the investigation in view of its
documented links to the terror network, including Al
Qaeda.
More generally, the intelligence agencies including M-I6
should not be involved in the police investigation.
An independent public inquiry should be launched as
demanded by the Conservative opposition.
Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at
the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre
for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is a
contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and is
the author of America's "War on Terrorism" ,
Second Edition, 2005, forthcoming.
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NewKerala, India: Mujahideen threaten Jihad against Pakistan over Wana operations
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Mujahideen threaten Jihad against Pakistan over Wana operations
Islamabad: A jihadi commander has warned the Pakistan government that the ‘mujahideen’ will wage a war against security forces in Wana if the federal government does not stop
the killing and arresting of militants.
He said that sector commanders from South and North Wana had last week met a secret location to co-ordinate attacks on security forces across the region if there was any
escalation in the crackdown on jihadis.
He said that the mujahideen also resented the way the military backed away from their promises and resorted to killing and harassing the jihadis under US pressure.
“The military is not keeping its words. It’s been almost a year now and the military has yet to fulfil the promises it had made with us. They said there would be no arrests. Yet they
are arresting our mujahideen. They are killing women and children. They said they would remove military and paramilitary posts from inside South Waziristan, which they did not,”
the Dawn quoted 41-year-old Haji Muhammad Omar, commander of the mujahideen from Ahmadzai Wazirs in South Waziristan, as saying.
Omar, who along with three other militant commanders had signed a peace deal with the government in November, said that the agreements had lost their utility.
“We ceased fire and did not attack the military or the paramilitary, but they are continuing with their excesses against our mujahideen. This cannot go on. They should tell us
whether they want to abide by their words or not,” he said.
The architect of peace initiatives in South Waziristan, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt-Gen Safdar Hussain, however said that the peace deals signed with militants last autumn
were still intact.
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