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Now it all makes sense! Why hasn't this been publicized? Do you know this explanation to be true, or are you assuming?

Been reported.Notice the misdirection by some posters on FR (see the replies above). The BBC did blow the operation:

News Leak Blows Big Opportunity [Al Qaeda'a Man at the BBC] ^
Posted by TastyManatees
On 08/14/2003 1:24 PM EDT with 39 comments

Newsweek ^ | 8/14/03 | Michael Isikoff & Mark Hosenball News Leak Blows Big Opportunity Newsweek Web Exclusive While publicly congratulating themselves over the bust of an international arms dealer in an alleged plot to sell Russian-made surface-to-air missiles, top Justice Department officials are privately fuming over a premature news leak that may have blown a rare opportunity to penetrate Al Qaeda's arms-buying network, NEWSWEEK has learned . . .

Liz posted a great article here:

INSIDE THE PLOT TO SELL A MISSILE (serial numbers on dollar bills key to prosecution) ^

The Fifth Avenue jeweler is an Afghani. Yehuda Abraham was caught with a dollar bill with the serial number Lakhani had given an FBI informer.

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Yehuda Abraham was awared bail. I guess the Feds don't consider him as much of threat as the others. Bad news for Jewhaters, eh?