London Times: Terror Suspects Face Xtra ?s (Khan outing consequences)

[DeepModem Mom]

Terror suspects face extra questions
By Daniel McGrory and Zahid Hussain in Islamabad

....Counter-terror sources in Britain and Pakistan told The Times that a security leak in the US caused a serious setback in efforts to round up the al-Qaeda cell that allegedly planned a wave of attacks. It was said that undercover operations were underway when a US official revealed how a computer expert in Pakistan, Mohammed Naaem Noor Khan, was found with details on his laptop of targets in Washington, New York and Newark, New Jersey.

The 25-year-old militant, a frequent visitor to Britain, also had details of the layout of roads, fuel farms and terminal buildings at Heathrow.

Security chiefs in Islamabad were secretly using Mr Khan in a “sting” operation to send e-mail messages to al-Qaeda agents to tempt them to break cover. Scotland Yard had a number of young militants under surveillance but Washington’s decision to publicise the security scare allowed a number of suspects to flee.

One security source told The Times: “This could have been so much more successful had we kept Mr Khan’s arrest, and the capture of others, a secret for a little time longer. We had good leads on how al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan were linked to militants in the UK and US.”

Mr Khan recently stayed with relatives in Reading, Berkshire, and is said to have been co-operating with police by revealing names of those who allegedly worked on reconnaissance missions with him, including a British-born taxi driver, Abu Issa al-Hindi.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1211143,00.html

[MasonJar]

1. Is further proof needed that politics,not policy is the White House

mantra? This must be exploited by us Dems; if Bushco is going to make these egregious errors, then it deserves whatever repercussions that follow.

[sattahipdeep]

2. Dramamine anyone?

Hindi had earlier been identified as Abu Musa al-Hindi and Abu Eisa al-Hindi.

The U.S. officials who said they knew him as Abu Issa al-Hindi or Issa al-Hindi
cautioned that all the names were believed to be aliases.

They would not disclose his nationality, and said details about his suspected
role were being very closely held.

http://www.iht.com/articles/532896.html August 6,04 :eyes:

U.S. and Pakistani officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, have
confirmed that Khan agreed after his arrest to send e-mails to al-Qaida
members, and Khan received replies from at least some of them. Days
after Khan's arrest, British authorities arrested 12 terror suspects in
raids, including one person described as a senior al-Qaida operative,
Abu Eisa al-Hindi, and Khan's cousin, Babar Ahmad.

August 10,04

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=1278&e=7&u=/ap/20040810/ap_on_go_co/terror_threats_leak

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16570-2001Mar16.html
But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked
to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land
a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins
during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he
explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street
bankers and lawyers."

Krongard described his role as that of a chief operating officer
and vowed to keep everyone focused. "If you ask me, 'What is your
one biggest priority?' it would be to do everything I can to
support our two basic missions here, operations and
intelligence," he said. "If you don't worry about who gets the credit, you can
accomplish an awful lot."

http://www.rense.com/general19/2bigminds.htm

[realFedUp]

3. so much for the Khan game....

:-)