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| UK Taliban link between Seattle, London Islamic militants |
| 2002-07-15 |
| A British Taliban fighter held at Guantanamo has provided US investigators with a link between a group of Seattle militant Muslims and members of a radical mosque in London, the Seattle Times reported Sunday. The prisoner, Feroz Abbassi, told CIA interrogators earlier this year that he traveled to Afghanistan from London in 2000 with an American Muslim convert now suspected of being a key figure in supporting the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Abbassi said he had met the man at the North London Central Mosque, a major recruiting ground for Islamic terrorists. That mosque is led by Abu Hamza al-Masri, a militant cleric who supports Osama bin Laden. Abbassi also reportedly said that while he was fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, he met another man, a Swedish citizen who had been to the United States in November 1999 to scout a potential site for an al-Qaeda training camp. Abbassi, 22, was captured near Khandahar, Afghanistan, by US troops in December. A native of Uganda and a British citizen, his continued detention at Camp X-Ray has prompted numerous protests in Britain. Seems our ignoring those protests is paying off... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |