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August 24, 2005
Was Suspected Mastermind of 7/7 Bombings Employed by MI6?
In yesterday's New Criminologist.co.uk, an extraordinary claim is made that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspected mastermind behind the London bombings, was a double agent, claiming to inform on Islamist terrorism to MI6, while still pursuing his extra-curricular activities as a terrorist.
The claims are made by John Loftus, a US terrorism expert and former prosecutor for the US Justice Department. This is not the first time Loftus has aired these opinions - on 29 July, he appeared on Fox News Channel's Day Side show, and gave a similar account.
Haroon Rashid Aswat was recently apprehended in Zambia for immigration irregularities. He had arrived only a day before the London Transport bomb atrocities were carried out. He was questioned by US and UK officials, and then deported back to Britain, arriving at Northolt airport on 7 August, from where he was taken to high-security Paddington Green police station. He grew up in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, home also of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the key figure in the bombing cell that committed the 7/7 attacks upon London Transport passengers.
An account of Aswat's arrest is given in the 8 Aug edition of The Times. He was already under threat of deportation to the United States for his role in setting up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. Aswat, born in 1975, has not seen his parents for 10 years, but he was involved with Abu Hamza al-Masri, the now-detained hook-handed preacher from the infamous Finsbury Park Mosque. Aswat is believed to have been intimately involved with the setting up of the Al-Muhajiroun radical organisation, which split a year ago to become the Saviour Sect and its co-partner Al-Ghuraaba.
John Loftus is quoted in the New Criminologist article as stating:
"...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."Loftus added: "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 ......he is a double agent."In a blistering attack on MI6 John Loftus went on to spell out that British Intelligence and the US Dept of Justice had protected Haroon Rashid 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... we've just learned that the headquarters of the US Justice Department ordered the Seattle prosecutors not to touch Aswat... apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence."
The New York Times published an article on 29 July 2005, which detailed how Aswat managed to elude detention while US and UK government officials were colluding on information-sharing, but the full article now costs $3.95 to retrieve, should you wish to purchase it.
CNN.com are more generous, and clicking the link will produce an article entitled: "UK blocked bomb plotter arrest". The report, published on 28 July, appears to corroborate the gist of Loftus' argument, though not his direct claims about MI6.
About a month before the July 7 bombings in London, British authorities balked at giving U.S. officials permission to apprehend a man now believed to have ties to the bombers, according to sources familiar with the investigation....U.S. authorities had asked South Africa if they could take Aswat into custody. South Africa relayed the request to Britain, but authorities there balked because he was a British citizen, the sources said. While the debate was ongoing, Aswat slipped away.The article was a fuller account of one CNN had given a day earlier. On 20 July, CNN published a further article about Aswat's links to the Oregon plot.
A full transcript of John Loftus' conversation on Fox News Channel can be found at Alex Jones' infowars.net, and a blogsite discussion about Aswat can be found here on spy.org.uk.
I am perplexed and intrigued by this case, but at least I know one thing of which Haroon Rashid Aswat is unmistakeably guilty - he is ugly as sin.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 24, 2005 8:21 PM
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