U.S. informant warned of London bombings

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11234995/

U.S. informant warned of London bombings
FBI passed tip to UK, but information was too vague to foil attack

NEW YORK - A terror informant arrested in 2004 identified one of the London transit system suicide bombers as a possible threat, according to U.S. officials who said the tip was too vague to foil last year’s deadly attack.

The FBI passed on the warning about Mohammed Sidique Khan to British authorities before the July 7 bombings, two U.S. law enforcement officials based in New York said Tuesday.

The informant, Mohammed Junaid Babar, identified Khan as a potential terrorist, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is based in Britain. However, they said, Babar offered no specific information about a plot targeting the transit system.

Khan and fellow bomber Shehzad Tanweer were briefly put under surveillance by Britain’s MI5 security agency in 2004, but the operation was halted when security services decided the men did not pose any immediate threat. They were among four men who later blew up three subways and a double-decker bus, killing 52 commuters and themselves.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. LIHOP? n/t

[orwell]

2. Targeted...

"A terror informant arrested in 2004 identified one of the London transit system suicide bombers as a possible threat, according to U.S. officials who said the tip was too vague to foil last year’s deadly attack."

This is the same thing they said about the multitude of warnings before 9/11. "Too vague."

Of course what isn't too vague is warrantless wiretapping/data mining of all incoming and outgoing calls for the US. That of course, is "targeted."

I'm glad we cleared that up.

[cantstandbush]

3. You mean we didn't pick it up with a WIRETAP? N/T

[mom cat]

4. Nope! Just Quakers and Grannies who pose a much bigger threat

to the chimp.

[MakeItSo]

5. Was it Giuliani, the Forrest Gump of Terra?

The Mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks, Rudolph Giuliani, has spoken of the "eerie" experience of being in London near one of Thursday's blasts.

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1077572

Or is he in Washington today?