CIA 'warned UK' over bomber before 7/7

[sabra]

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/display.var.799216.0.cia_warned_uk_over_bomber_before_77.php

CIA 'warned UK' over bomber before 7/7

The mastermind of the July 7 bombings was considered so dangerous that he was banned from flying to America two years before the London attacks, a new book has claimed.

British intelligence "was certainly told" in 2003 that Mohammed Sidique Khan was a terrorist, award-winning security writer Ron Suskind has said.

The allegations in Suskind's book, The One Percent Doctrine, contradict MI5's insistance before parliament that the Edgware Road suicide bomber was never listed as a terror threat.

Khan made at least three trips to America as part of a plot to "blow up synagogues on the East Coast", the book claims.

[marmar]

1. British LIHOP?

As Greg Palast said, Washington and London needed their "terror fix."

[hpot]

2. Yup

They also had an underground bomb drill at the same time. Gee, what a coincidence.

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9160

[Virginia Dare]

3. Wasn't Rudy the Saint in London at that time?....n/t

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4661409.stm

[Eugene]

4. That wasn't their only slipup regarding Kahn.

From The Observer, May 2006...

7/7 ringleader 'had direct link with terror cell'

Antony Barnett, Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend
Sunday May 7, 2006
The Observer

<snip>

The revelation will prove damaging. Previously it was believed Khan was linked
to the cell only through a third party. That he had direct links to the group
under surveillance raises questions over why he was not placed under closer
supervision.

After the London bombings, it emerged that Khan travelled to Pakistan, where he met
with radical Muslim groups. But the committee heard that, though the intelligence
agencies had been monitoring Khan in the UK, they did not believe him to be a
terrorist threat, instead thinking he was intent on committing fraud.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1769381,00.html

[ikri]

5. Sorry, I call bullsh*t

Firstly, how many people are on the US anti-terror no-fly list? Considering how many stories there are of seemingly random people being prevented from flying to the US the list must run into thousands. Considering that the US believe that Yusef Islam is a terrorist, it would seem likely that pretty much anyone who has any links to the Middle East might end up on the no-fly list.

Secondly, this guy is trying to sell a book! This isn't news, this isn't fascinating new evidence, this is a guy who wants you to buy his book. He's not going to sell the damned thing if he writes a book that backs up the official version of events: there's no money there.

[KansDem]

6. Why the Hell are we spending billions on intelligence operations...

...when we don't use the intelligence gleaned from such operations?

...or we expose said intelligence operations to our enemies for political expediency?

I'm so sick and tired of the "mob" (one could include Tony Blair here as an associate of George W. Bush) citing "faulty intelligence" (or "not enough intelligence") for it's inability or unwillingness to stop or combat terrorism.

And this line...
When the FBI said it did not have the manpower to follow him, his name was put on a "no-fly list".

Perhaps if the US spent less time spying on Quakers, vegans, and other Americans and more time on real terrorists, this kind of thing could be stopped.