BRITON NAMED AS BOMB PLANNER; MET WITH BIN LADEN

The Drudge Report ^ | July 20, 2005

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Terror investigators hunting the London bombing mastermind are to question a suspected Al Qaeda planner held in Pakistan.

British-born Haroon Rashid Aswad(Aswat) was seized at a religious school with a suicide bomb belt, explosives and GBP 13,000 in cash.

Security sources in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, claim he had up to 20 telephone conversations with London bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer. One of these is believed to have been just hours before the blasts.

The UK's DAILY MAIL reports on Thursday: Security sources say he trained at an Afghan camp which was visited by Osama Bin Laden and that he is linked to two of Bin Laden's planners and an Al Qaeda suspect held in America.

U.S. investigators have been told that Aswad attended the Khalden camp in Afghanistan, favoured by foreign terror trainees. British shoe bomber Richard Reid is among those who attended the camp and it has been reported that London bomber Khan also went there.

Developing...

[Grampa Dave]

We used to be limited to about 18 letters (I believe) for a keyword. That really limited us in our ability recall/search for these bastards.

Now we can put in HaroonRashidAswat and a few more letters to identify the Jihadist from abroad and here.

[Redbob]

What kind of sick "people" train their children to commit suicide?

(No, lemmings aren't people, though they do seem vastly preferable to Arabs...)

[Redbob]

"Please tell me you're a lady.
LOL! I hope I am."

I had guessed you were a guy, when you said two arab males had tried to "pick you up."

LOL!

[Redbob]

"We must never forget that Pakistan has nuclear weapons."

I'll spell this one out:

F-i-r-s-t S-t-r-i-k-e!

[marshmallow]

Not too many Muslims in the west country of the UK, compared to other parts.

Now go to Bradford, Birmingham, Leeds, Oldham or the East End of London and you'll see very little else.

[GoldwaterChick]

"It took 7 years to find Rudolph in Ashevile, NC"

Ladyinred, obviously you have never been to the mountainous, tribal areas where Bin Laden has been known to hide--neither have I. But I have seen many photos. Those who criticize our inability to find him should visit there to see for themselves that looking for a needle in a haystack would be child's play in comparison. And finding Bin Laden will not stop the terrorists, just as capturing Sadaam has not stopped the terrorts in Iraq. It's just as issue for the MSM to hammer.

[sarasota]

Exactly. More than one country knows where the terrorists and their training camps are. And they are afraid of them.

[quantfive]

"Someone tell me why we aren't getting Osama! I am really wondering what the deal is. Don't tell me we can't find that piece of trash."

I saw a show on Discovery or A&E I can't remember which about Bin Ladens biography. Something that stuck with me was that the people in Pakistan and Afghanistan have lots of tribal communities. Well before 9/11, Bin Laden helped finance for years these tribal warlords in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We in America do not understand why no one over there would turn him in for the 25 million dollar reward. The societies and religious beliefs are radical in general and radically different from our own beliefs.

[Analog Artist]

Thanks.

[Oorang]

The article at the link below says he was caught at the Madrassa Qasimul Uloom in Sargodha district. Of course they are also saying he is the wrong Haroon Rashid.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-7-2005_pg1_1

[combat_boots]

"Actually, I heard that those Navy Seals were getting close to him when that chopper went down in Afghanistan."

May God have mercy and bless those men and their families. We owe them much for their sacrifice.

[Montfort]

"THANK YOU. Either OBL is dead, or he's being protected by some other Islamic potentate.

RICH PEOPLE don't stay where there is military action.

They hide on yachts."

A SEAL team could make hiding on a yacht a really bad operation. Now that would make a great true-story movie I would like to see.

You would think that someone would have ratted him out by now if he was living it up somewhere. Perhaps he is hiding in some hole, like Saddam. That would make more sense.

[Ciexyz]

I still think he (OBL) is in Iran

I've read that he's in Syria. Well, spin the dial and see where the arrow lands.

[Ciexyz]

It must have been those white neo-fascists again!

LOL! Witness the latest Hollyweird "villain", Doctor Doom in the "Fantastic Four" film, from the fictional nation of "Latveria". Oh those evil East Europeans!

[river rat]

"How about Mullah Omar? How hard is it to find a one-eyed mullah?"

Don't know....But, I've had my eye out for him..

Semper Fi

[river rat]

"According to the London Mayor, it is okay because all they have to use is their bodies to blow-up."

And the good mayor has only his brain farts to distinquish him from an ass clown..

Sempr Fi

[GladesGuru]

Those Wahibi madrassas exist in many mosques here in America. All they lack is the open terrorist device training and the AK-47 training grounds.

But the use of "summer camps" will do, and the Muslims have summer camps as well.

The problem lies in the core incompatibilities between Islam and Western civilization. Islam, until it renounces its demand for supremacy enforced by neck cuttings, war, and reduction of non-believers to dhimmitude IS ANTITHETICAL TO AMERICA.

No National Council of Churches blather, no George Bush platitudes about "this is not a war against Islam", blah, blah, blabber, blabber - nothing will make any difference. Unreconstructed, unreformed Islam is going to continue to be as bloody, as savage, and as totally unacceptable to the West as it was during the Crusades.

Islam must conform to the modern world, lest it drag us back into the unspeakably dirty, cruel, impoverished excuse for civilization which most Islamic societies now are.

[GladesGuru]

As I mentioned more than a few times on other threads, America must force the Saudi's to shut the madrassa system and execute all students that pose any risk of acting out the Whabbi Muslim jihad syndrome.

As the Saudi's created these pigeons, they should be forced to destroy them. If America loses a few cities to terrorism, so be it.

It is better to take smaller losses now than huge losses followed by forced conversion to Sharia law or enforced Dhimmitude.

Lest anyone think I am idly floating ideas because I don't have to suffer the consequences, I happen to live near one of America's largest populations of Jews (highest value Islamic target, remember?) which is South Florida.

'Tis better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees as a dhimmi.

[GladesGuru]

"I didn't meet too many blokes named "Rashid" in the pubs when I was over there ...

Do you mean in England? When I was there last October, I ran into plenty of Muslims. The first guy who tried to pick me up was a "Mohammed." So was the second."


How strange - I never knew a sheep or a goat could type, much less post on Free Republic. After all, no Muslim would ever even think of sex with a human unbeliever!

[swarthyguy]

Do not trust Musharraf.

Dog is now channeling me.