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British agents trace 7/7 terror links to smalltown America |
2006-06-20 |
BRITISH agents are operating in the United States to trace links with Islamic extremists from England who recruit Muslims to fight for terrorist groups abroad. The British-led investigation has played a part in identifying a number of US-based terrorists and helped the authorities in Washington to break up an al-Qaeda cell operating in Falls Church, Virginia. The agents are particularly keen to discover if the visitors included Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the July 7 suicide bombers, who is alleged to have travelled to America’s East Coast to meet fellow militants and stage a series of attacks on synagogues. Khan was considered such a threat that he was banned from returning to America two years before the attack on London, according to a book written by a US intelligence specialist. The disclosure, made by the award-winning author Ron Suskind in an extract from The One Percent Doctrine in The Times yesterday, led to calls for a full public inquiry into intelligence lapses before the attacks on July 7 which killed 52 people in London. Intelligence sources in America insist that the man they were alerted to was Khan. However, Tony Blair’s spokesman said the claims would not lead to any further investigation by the Intelligence and Security Committee, which last month cleared MI5 of serious errors, or any other form of inquiry. “The [Security and Intelligence] Committee’s conclusion is that there was not an intelligence failure,” he said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#11 Be clear Bman... I've a Jones for Arabians. Not, repeat, not arabs. |
Posted by: 6 2006-06-20 17:28 |
#10 Yea, they met frequently in... quaint and unassuming Falls Church, but they lived out near Middleburg in gummit housing and raised Arabians in their backyards. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2006-06-20 13:04 |
#9 France? I believe he's refering to Gaul. |
Posted by: Steve 2006-06-20 12:59 |
#8 France? |
Posted by: Howard UK 2006-06-20 09:47 |
#7 Yarr! we be simple folk us Brits ... Once a year I go down to London with my hard earned beaver furs and trade them in for such technologies as the abacus and the wheel .. Ameri-who ? Isnt that near France |
Posted by: MacNails 2006-06-20 09:10 |
#6 Indeed, Rob. I b'lieve those ignorant Americans call them "suburbs". |
Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-20 07:52 |
#5 reputation as the jihad capital of America & Islamic Centre in Falls Church Anybody see a connection? |
Posted by: ed 2006-06-20 07:40 |
#4 Their trials exposed a network stretching from this placid commuter belt serving the US capital ten miles away... Hint to Brits: any place ten miles from a city you've heard of is not "small town". |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-06-20 07:21 |
#3 KKKHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN......! Montalban even wore fake pecks. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-20 03:35 |
#2 It's the colonies, y'know. The only sizeable cities are NYC, L.A., and San Francisco. ;P |
Posted by: Pappy 2006-06-20 01:29 |
#1 Falls Church is "smalltown" America? *snicker* Another clueless reporter who needs to get out a bit more often. |
Posted by: 2b 2006-06-20 00:27 |