BBC: 7 July bomber 'filmed last year' (by intelligence services)

[muriel_volestrangler]

London bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan featured in a surveillance operation by intelligence services last year, a BBC investigation suggests.

Khan was secretly filmed and recorded speaking to a UK-based terror suspect, according to a well-placed source.

A Radio 4 File on 4 and BBC Two Newsnight investigation also suggests he was in contact with al-Qaeda activists for the last five years.
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The programme makers stress there is no independent corroboration that Khan was secretly filmed by intelligence services talking to the terror suspect, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4375598.stm

It seems to be unconfirmed, but it does look like incompetence by the security services.

[pocket]

1. incompetence, or LIHOP

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[leveymg]

2. Or, incompetent handling of a double-agent. Or something worse.

Sounds an awful lot like the January 2000 al-Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur meeting that was monitored (videotaped) by the CIA and a half dozen allied services.

Funny, we never saw or heard any of those recordings.

[Chemical Bill]

3. We should put more surveillance cameras up.

:sarcasm: