U.S. blows UK case early. Not 2006... 2004! ANYONE REMEMBER NOOR KHAN?

[Mugsy]

After just reading the DU front page story (and #5 in the Top 10) that the US may have forced the UK to move in on the latest airline bomber plot early because the US was about to expose their efforts in order to score some cheap political points because of an election, one name immediately sprang to mind: Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, the MI-5 mole that had infiltrated al Qaeda in 2004 and may have led us to The Big "O" himself, but because the Bush Administration desperately needed to disrupt the momentum of the Democratic National Convention that had just ended two days before, giving Senator Kerry a bump that extended his lead in the polls, they needed something to remind everyone (to quote a line from "V") "WHY THEY NEED US!".

Exposing the name of "Valery Plame" was bad enough, but exposing the name of a Pakistani double-agent that had infiltrated al-Qaeda's inner sanctum...

And of course, they've now done it once again, and just as before, no one seems to remember.

[jsamuel]

1. that's what I said and I got attacked as a conspiracy theorist

[librechik]

2. I mentioned this last week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1872695&mesg_id=1873352

yep--nobody noticed my tinfoil hat

[Mugsy]

4. I don't remember Khan being mentioned in the MSM newz....

back in '04 either.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. The fact they already released one of these "kids"

shows how sketchy and premature the arrests were- the investigation was not complete.
The fact they did this once before supports the claim that they did it again- made an annoucement for political purposes.