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Posted: Feb 8 2006, 12:51 PM

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On July 29th, John Loftus, a terrorism expert and former federal prosecutor, appeared on Fox News and revealed that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspect wanted by British Police for 'masterminding' the July 7th London bombings and July 21st attempted bombings is in fact an asset of MI6, the British Secret Service. According to Loftus, Aswat has been under the protection of MI6 for many years.

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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....

[commercial break]

JERRICK: On the phone with us, Mansoor Ijaz; Mansoor you know very well here at Fox News Channel and Dayside. Mansoor, real quickly here, you spent so much time in London, you're probably not that as impressed as I am about how fast Scotland Yard has worked on this case. So impressive, so successful. Why?

MANSOOR IJAZ: Well there are two things that a lot of domestic intelligence agencies don't around the world. One is an extraordinarily detailed database of information, and that database is buttressed by the fact that they have these photos, the graphic images of the faces of the people that they were looking for. So it saved them a lot of time when they got the forensic evidence, like fingerprints or other things that indicated where they could actually go find these people. Because remember, there was a lot of data left on the stuff these guys left behind from the failed bombing attack, and that's what helped to really unravel the cell. Now--

JERRICK: I guess--go ahead, Mansoor.

IJAZ: Now I think there's one very important thing that I think everybody needs to know. And that is that the cellular structure that this new breed of Al-Qaeda people have is such that there is not a clear indication that they all knew each other as much as it is that they had some sort of central control still sitting outside of the framework. Whether that's in a foreign country or a place that is removed from Britain and other place in Europe, that's what we're still looking for. But it's very clear now that these cellular structures were operating independent of each other, but with knowledge that something else was in fact planned in the pipeline.

JERRICK: Real quick, Mansoor. In that regard, maybe a ringleader could be this Haroon Aswat. What do you know about him?

IJAZ: Well, he's a pretty bad guy, and I think your previous guest gave the best assessment of who he is. He's the right hand man of the Al-Muhajiroun leader in London, and has been organizing and planning for some time. And I don't want to minimize the effect of the arrest in Rome, because what that indicates is that the cellular structure is elsewhere and we all know that Italy is a big target on their list.

JERRICK: OK, speaking of him, back to the comments by our John Loftus a little while ago. A question from the audience for you, John. Go ahead.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hi Mr Loftus. I recently read a book by Morris Dees called The Gathering Storm , and it talks about extremist militia groups in the United States and how they might be manipulated by some people's rhetoric, very similar to Aswat in London. What do you think the US is doing to prevent terrorist attacks on our own soil that happen--

JERRICK: You're worried about it here?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes, sir.

LOFTUS: The US government's doing a great job. We arrested the New York branch of Al-Muhajiroun two years ago. We found the subway bombers with the plans to blow up two different subway stations in New York City. The rest of the group is under surveillance. 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.

Double Agent for MI6?

Loftus story confirmed

MI6 recruited Al-Muhajiroun terrorists

What Loftus says also seems to be backed up by these contradictory reports that Aswat was arrested in Pakistan - even describing what he was wearing.

The Guardian

Except he wasn't arrested at all. And nor was anyone else.
Aswat was later arrested in Zambia and brought to London - although he allegedly led them a little dance first.

He's now allegedly cooling his heels in Belmarsh (Source), fighting extradition (Source).

More on Aswat here, here and here.

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US eager to start extradition process

Edward Fitzgerald, QC, Abu Hamza�s lawyer, said that his client would contest efforts to extradite him. Mr Fitzgerald said that he would not receive a fair trial in the US and feared that he would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.

Haroon Rashid Aswat, one of Abu Hamza�s most trusted lieutenants, is also fighting extradition on the same indictment. Mr Aswat, from Dewsbury, North Yorkshire, was arrested in Zambia a month after the July 7 bombings and deported to London. His name had been circulated around the world in connection with the bombings because it was believed that he knew Mohammad Sidique Khan, the ringleader of the July 7 gang, who was also from Dewsbury. But Mr Aswat has not been charged in connection with the July attacks.

The Times

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Hamza 'brainwashed our boy' claim family

Al-Qaida suspect Haroon Rashid Aswat, 30, who grew up in Dewsbury, has also been linked by security sources to Abu Hamza. Aswat, arrested in Zambia and brought to the UK, is accused of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in the US and two days ago lost the first round of his battle against extradition to the US.

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OK, I think this is where it gets interesting as this article hints at a number of interesting international links to the man that was alleged to have masterminded the whole operation:

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The Sunday Times July 31, 2005

Tangled web that still leaves worrying loose ends

The arrest of Haroon Rashid Aswat sets numerous questions, say Richard Woods, David Leppard and Mick Smith

Three weeks after the first London bombings, British and American security sources are giving markedly different versions of how much was known about the bombers before the attacks and who masterminded them.

According to US intelligence sources, a man now being held in Zambia is Haroon Rashid Aswat, a Briton of Indian origin who has links to a convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist. They believe he assisted or masterminded the London attacks.

But British investigators, examining whether telephone calls were made between the London bombers and Aswat before the attacks of 7/7, caution that the calls may have been made to a phone linked to Aswat, rather than the man himself.

Some of the mobile phones used by the 7/7 bombers have been recovered from the scenes of the explosions. Even though they are badly damaged, forensic telecommunications experts have had some success in recovering vital data relating to outgoing calls, text messages and voice mail.

Those details are allowing investigators to draw up a network of �concentric circles� around the four dead men, an exercise that has already led them to identify some of those who may have helped the bombers.

This weekend it appears that several calls from Aswat�s mobile telephone were made to the bombers in the days before the attacks. It is likely that the American National Security Agency � which has a powerful eavesdropping network � was monitoring the calls. If contacts between the bombers and Aswat are proved, it could be a painful blow for British security officials.

In the weeks before the attacks Aswat, according to American officials, was under surveillance in South Africa and US authorities wanted to arrest him for questioning.

The South Africans are believed to have relayed the request to British authorities who were reluctant to agree to him being seized because of his status as a British citizen. The US, it is claimed, wanted to take control of Aswat using a process known as �extraordinary rendition�, which would bypass the normal extradition process and may have resulted in him being flown to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba or a country that allows torture.

However, questions are also being asked about whether the British did not wish to have Aswat arrested because he was seen as a useful source of information. To some, British intelligence is too willing to let terrorist suspects run in the hope of gathering useful leads and other information.

In the weeks before the London attacks a man said to be Aswat may have entered the UK, though British security officials think this may be a case of mistaken identity.

What seems clearer is that he either slipped his surveillance or was allowed to move on from South Africa. He was seized in Zambia on July 21, according to the Foreign Office, the day the second wave of would-be suicide bombers struck. On Friday, British officials had yet to be granted access to him.

As a potential mastermind of the London attacks, Aswat has connections and a past that are almost too neat a fit. Now 31, he was brought up in Dewsbury, near Leeds, where Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the London bombers, lived. He left the area 10 years ago and is believed to have travelled to training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is said to have told investigators in Zambia that he was once a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden.

When Aswat returned to Britain he attended the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which was a hotbed of radicalism in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Reda Hassaine, an Algerian journalist who worked as an informant for the British and French security services, witnessed Aswat recruiting young men at the mosque to the cause of Al-Qaeda.

�Inside the mosque he would sit with the new recruits telling them about life after death and the obligation of every Muslim to do the jihad against the unbelievers,� said Hassaine last week. �All the talk was about killing in order to go to paradise and get the 72 virgins.�

Aswat also showed potential recruits videotapes of the mujaheddin in action in Bosnia and Chechnya.

�He used to tell them look at your brothers, the mujaheddin. All of them are now in paradise living next to the prophet,� said Hassaine.

�He was always wearing Afghan or combat clothes. In the evening he offered some tea to the people who would sit with him to listen to the heroic action of the mujaheddin before joining the cleric for the finishing touch of brainwashing.

�The British didn�t seem to understand how dangerous these people were.�

Among the extremists who attended the mosque were Richard Reid, the �shoe bomber�, and Asif Hanif, a British suicide bomber who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv bar in 2003 killing three others and injuring 60.

While Aswat was closely connected with the Finsbury Park mosque, he was sent to America to meet a known Al-Qaeda activist. US investigators accuse him of being one of the �co-conspirators� of Earnest James Ujaama, who co-operated with US authorities after being charged in 2002 for planning to recruit and train jihadists in the US.

Aswat is said by US investigators to have travelled from London to Oregon in November 1999 to meet Ujaama and scout out a potential jihad training �ranch�. In the end the conspirators did not proceed with it.

There are other concerns. If Aswat knew the London bomber Khan, it would also link him to a group uncovered last year who allegedly were planning a large bomb attack. Under Operation Crevice, police arrested eight men after finding a large quantity of explosive material in a garage in west London.

During that investigation, Khan�s name surfaced on the periphery, but he was deemed no threat and not pursued. Some US investigators now claim another name also surfaced during Operation Crevice: that of Germaine Maurice Lindsay. He became another of the 7/7 bombers � and US authorities claim he was also on a watch list of suspected terrorists when he caused carnage at King�s Cross.

However, British security sources deny Lindsay�s name cropped up in Operation Crevice. And investigators say there is no hard evidence of what role, if any, Aswat played in the London attacks. Scotland Yard sources say he is not considered a priority in their criminal investigation into the July 7 and July 21 attacks. But senior Whitehall officials do not rule out the possibility there my be links to one or more of the bombers.

�I don�t think the evidence is conclusive either way,� one official was reported as saying in the US.

Senior Whitehall officials also deny �any knowledge� that he might be an agent for either MI5 or MI6.

The differences between the US and British agencies are symptomatic of a simmering distrust. Leaving aside the differences over Aswat, some aspects of the attacks increasingly point to an organising mind beyond the immediate bombers.

For five days after the first attacks, enough bomb-making material to kill scores of people sat in a car at Luton station before police discovered it. There was at least one completed explosive device and about 15 other items.

That finding remains a worrying loose end in the investigation. Why would the four bombers, intent on killing themselves, leave behind so much material in a car for which they had bought a seven-day parking ticket? A number of hypotheses are possible. The bombers may have bought the parking ticket in order not to arouse suspicion, and they may have chosen not to carry all the explosives they had prepared.

Another possibility is that the bombers were duped and had intended to return to their car. Were they told to plant their bombs in the belief they were timed to explode later than they did? Alternatively, was there a fifth bomber who dropped out at the last moment and abandoned his explosives and the car? Or was explosive material left behind deliberately for other terrorists to collect? Late last week, Scotland Yard was still refusing to say exactly what type of explosive was used in the 7/7 and 21/7 attacks on the grounds that doing so might prejudice its investigations.

But experts believe both sets of bombers used home-made explosives concocted from readily available household products.

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, warned that the 21/7 attackers were not �the B team�, despite the failure to detonate their bombs fully. �They made one mistake. We are very, very lucky.�

Source: The Sunday Times

The South African link is particularly interesting for anyone with even a cursory notion of what has gone on there in the past. For an even more curious SA link with 7/7, try the logo for the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging which popped back into the present courtesy of Nick Broomfields excellent documentary, His Big White Self, shown Feb 27th.

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The Times July 21, 2005

Top al-Qaeda Briton called Tube bombers before attack

By Zahid Hussain in Islamabad, Daniel McGrory and Sean O�Neill

THE British al-Qaeda leader linked to the London terrorist attacks was being questioned by police in Pakistan last night after the discovery of mobile phone records detailing his calls with the suicide bombers.
Haroon Rashid Aswat has emerged as the figure that Scotland Yard have been hunting since he flew out of Britain just hours before the attacks which killed 56 people.

Aswat, 30, who is believed to come from the same West Yorkshire town as one of the bombers, arrived in Britain a fortnight before the attacks to orchestrate final planning for the atrocity. He spoke to the suicide team on his mobile phone a few hours before the four men blew themselves up and killed fifty-two other people.

Intelligence sources told The Times that during his stay Aswat visited the home towns of all four bombers as well as selecting targets in London.

Aswat has been known to Western intelligence services for more than three years after the FBI accused him of trying to set up al-Qaeda training camps in the US. When he was arrested in a madrassa (religious school), Aswat is understood to have been posing as a businessmen and using a false name. He was picked up in a raid at a madrassa at Sargodha, 90 miles from Islamabad, by Pakistani intelligence officials and flown to a jail in the capital.

Security sources there told The Times that he was armed with a number of guns, wearing an explosive belt and carrying around �17,000 in cash. He had a British passport and was about to flee across the border to Afghanistan.

Aswat, who is thought to have stayed in the madrassa with two of the British suicide bombers, is being questioned over claims that one � Mohammad Sidique Khan � telephoned him on the morning of the July 7 attack.

Intelligence sources claim that there were up to twenty calls between Aswat and two of the bombers in the days leading up to the bombing of three Tube trains and a double-decker bus. A senior Pakistani security source said: �We believe this man had a crucial part to play in what happened in London.�

Tony Blair has telephoned President Musharraf about the crackdown on militants which has led to more than 200 arrests in Pakistan since the weekend.

Officials in Islamabad say that eight men are directly linked to the London investigation, and were in telephone contact with Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Khan, 30, a former primary school assistant.

Aswat is believed to have had a ten-year association with militant groups and met Osama bin Laden while attending an al-Qaeda training camp at Khalden in Afghanistan.

FBI documents obtained by The Times reveal details of how a London-based cleric sent Aswat to America in 1999 to set up camps in Oregon for US-born recruits.

The papers indicate that Aswat spent three months in America and engaged in firearms and poisons training but decided against using a remote ranch in Bly as an al-Qaeda camp. The CIA is keeping in close touch with Aswat�s interrogation and British detectives are seeking permission to speak to him.

The FBI is to question a number of figures held in the US, including James Ujaama, an American convert to Islam who met Aswat, and a second al-Qaeda emissary in Seattle.

Ujaama has pleaded guilty to assisting the Taleban and is now a �co-operating witness� who has given details of Aswat�s activities in the US.

Aswat flew into New York on November 26, 1999, on an Air India flight with Oussama Abdullah Kassir, who has Swedish nationality.
Kassir, 38, described himself as �a hitman for Osama bin Laden� and claimed to have fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir.

Ujaama drove the pair to the ranch but they complained that it did not have the facilities � especially barracks for otential recruits � that they had been led to believe existed.

During November and December 1999, Aswat and Kassir met potential candidates for jihad training.

The FBI document details how they secured the Bly property with guard patrols and passwords and they and others received training in firearms and �improvised poisons�.

Aswat and Kassir were still in the United States in February 2000. They were living in Seattle where they �expounded the writings and teachings� of their London-based mentor in lectures to young Muslims at a city mosque.

Kassir also provided what the FBI described as �urban tactical training�.

In 2002, an associate of Kassir was arrested in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, attempting to board a flight to London carrying a revolver.

Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, was jailed for ten months in November 2003 for possessing illegal weapons at his home in Stockholm.

Charges that he was planning a terrorist attack were dropped.

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The Times January 06, 2006

Al-Qaeda suspect fears torture after extradition order
By Daniel McGrory

A BRITISH al-Qaeda suspect told a judge who ordered his extradition to the United States on terror charges yesterday that he fears he will be sent to Guantanamo Bay and tortured.

Lawyers for Haroon Rashid Aswat, who was brought up in Yorkshire, said that they would appeal against the ruling, which could delay any decision on his removal for many months.

The FBI claims that the former street-market trader tried to set up a terrorist training camp in the backwoods of Oregon for US and British recruits before the attacks on September 11, 2001.

When he was arrested in Zambia last July he reportedly told his captors that he was once a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. He claimed to have met the al-Qaeda leader during his time at a camp in the mountains of Afghanistan where he became an expert in combat training.

US officials told earlier hearings in London that on his trip to Oregon in 1999 Mr Aswat brought CD-Roms with him containing instructions for using explosives and poisons.

The plan was to set up the camp in the town of Bly, which has a population of only 500, but Mr Aswat reportedly found the 160-acre Dog Cry Ranch too dilapidated for his needs.

He allegedly collaborated on the plan with a US computer expert, James Ujaama, who confessed his role in exchange for a reduction in his jail sentence to two years.

Yesterday Mr Aswat was dressed all in black for his brief appearance in the dock at Bow Street. He was flanked by four prison officers as District Judge Timothy Workman read out his judgment. Mr Aswat�s barrister, Paul Bowen, said his client had asked him to say a few words emphasising that he has no links with terrorism. �He wants to say he is an innocent man, that he has nothing to hide and nothing to fear from a trial itself,� Mr Bowen said.

He added: �What he fears is the process he faces in the United States.�

Outside the court his solicitor, Gareth Peirce, described the ruling as outrageous and the charges against him as nonsense.

She said: �The only witness against him in the United States was threatened that if he didn�t plead guilty and co-operate he would be put under military detention.

�It shows the extent to which the United States is manipulating evidence and pressuring witnesses. All that is said about Haroon Aswat is that in 1999 he travelled to a farm in the US which was considering setting up a Muslim community and, after a few days, left. That�s it � that�s the evidence.�

The judge said it was up to the US court to decide whether the evidence was admissible.

Mr Workman added that he had received a diplomatic note from the US Embassy in London last month assuring the British Government that Mr Aswat would not be prosecuted as an enemy combatant.

The note added that Mr Aswat will face a federal court and not a military commission which the US is threatening to use to try some of those held in Guantanamo Bay.

Mr Workman said: �Whilst the note does not provide any personal protection to this defendant I am satisfied that it does bind the Government of the United States of America which in these terms includes the President.�

Mr Aswat�s lawyers claimed the assurance was worthless.

Ms Peirce described Mr Aswat as �a law-abiding man who has committed no crimes anywhere in the world and has a good family in Yorkshire�.

His parents, who originally come from India but who haved lived in Batley for many years, say they lost touch with their son more than ten years ago after he became more extremist in his views and began to criticise their way of life.

An appeal to the High Court by Mr Aswat�s lawyers will delay Charles Clarke�s decision on whether to extradite him.

US authorities have criticised the time it takes for Britain to deal with such requests. Ministers have pledged to speed up the process but, since the September 11 attacks, the UK has extradited only one suspect on terror charges. Rachid Ramda was sent for trial in France after a ten-year legal battle."

Source: The Times

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See this story which claims Aswat's extradition hearing was at the same time as Babar Ahmad's.

Yet the counsel for both men is named in the BBC report as Edward Fitzgerald QC, who doesn't appear to be representing Aswat:

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Recently, Edward Fitzgerald represented Babar Ahmed against a request for extradition by the United States for alleged terrorist activities (US v Babar Ahmed, unreported). This case raised significant questions about US extradition policies, the defence was predominantly based on the possibility of Mr Ahmed facing the Military Commission and being sentenced to the death penalty or incarceration in Guantanamo Bay if extradited to the US.

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"The U.S. and UK trade in terrorism like it is some kind of off-the-shelf commodity."
http://www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=-1677497717
http://newsmine.org/archive/war-on-terror/...e-commodity.txt (copy)

Haroon Aswat�FBI agent threatens former USDA federal agent, now staff reporter for The New Criminologist.
Published on 25 September 2005 | Author BERRY-DEE, Christopher.

Haroon Aswat � the man British Police believe was behind the London bombings � was working for MI6, it has been confirmed by leading U.S. and French intelligence asset/agents.

Now an FBI agent in Seattle � name removed for security reasons, but can be published at the drop of a hat � has demanded that former USDA federal agent, Dr Janette Parker, stop talking to the British media about how the FBI obstructed their own top terrorism investigator, John O�Neill in his enquiries.

Dr Parker, who worked alongside O�Neill, although not in an official capacity� is fearful of her life.

�Janet is a highly-professional and honest person. She is very brave,� says Christopher Berry-Dee, publisher of TNC. �But, now the cat is out of the bag, and we have ensured that she will be protected by circulating her information to leading British newspapers and the media.�
London Bombing ringleader, Haroon Rashid Aswat � double agent for MI6?

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