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2005-08-01 Britain

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Posted by Steve 2005-08-01 15:16|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Or to set up a false trail leading...nowhere.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-01 15:40|| 2005-08-01 15:40|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope they are looking for DNA on the bag. That could eliminate chasing their tail.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-01 15:45|| 2005-08-01 15:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Additional: A BAG stuffed with fake passports and false IDs found abandoned near Heathrow airport may be linked to West Yorkshire. The black holdall, which contained false visas, forged Home Office documents, bank cards and work permits, was found by a
taxi driver on a grass verge close to the busy airport. It is feared the contents of the bag, which had a Qatar Airways luggage tag, were intended to assist other terrorists plotting similar attacks to those carried out in London on July 7 and 21, to help them get in and out the country.
Inside were 19 passports for Pakistani, Indian, British, Nepalese and South African nationals.
But it is understood also found among the items were letters linked to Leeds and Dewsbury. In particular the bag is said to have contained a letter written to a Muslim in Dewsbury, complete with an Islamic charm.
The contents were handed over to anti-terror police by News of the World reporters after it was given to them by the taxi driver. A spokesman from Scotland Yard last night confirmed they were investigating the contents. He was unable to confirm the existence of a letter to anyone in Dewsbury, or any other links to West Yorkshire.
Dewsbury was home to suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, who carried out the Edgware Road bombing on July 7, killing himself and six other people. The teaching assistant, who lived at Holm Lees with his wife and daughter, is said to have been the dominant influence over the other Yorkshire bombers â Shehzad Tanweer, 22, of Colwyn Terrace, Beeston, Leeds, who carried out the Aldgate Tube attack and Hasib Hussain, 18, who lived in Colenso Mount, Holbeck, Leeds and carried out the bus bombing in Tavistock Square. Khan lived in Beeston before moving to Dewsbury. Some of the documents and letters in the bag, which was discovered nearly a mile from Heathrow last Thursday, are also understood to be linked to north London â which has been at the centre of anti-terrorist investigations since the July 21 attacks.
Several of the passports contained fake visas in different shades of ink from genuine documents.
Photographs of the same two men appear on different valid passports in different names.
Other fake papers included a car log book and a driving licence.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard last night said: "The documents are now being assessed by detectives from the Met's Anti-Terrorist Branch."
He added that police would encourage anyone who has information that might assist the investigation into the attacks on the London transport system on July 7 or 21, to contact the Anti-Terrorist hotline on 0800 789321, or online via www.police.uk. A Home Office spokesman last night said he could not confirm any details with regard to the holdall find or its contents.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-01 15:57|| 2005-08-01 15:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Could have been left there for someone to pick up since it just came in via a middle eastern airline (tag). But the cab driver saw it first. Delivery Mule probably had a round trip ticket.

Posted by RG 2005-08-01 16:10|| 2005-08-01 16:10|| Front Page Top

#5 since it just came in via a middle eastern airline (tag)

Just because it has a tag on it doesn't mean it just came in or that the passports or documents were in it when it came in. Bag could have been sitting around with a tag on it from the last time it was used. Article doesn't make clear what kind of luggage tag it was, could have just been one of those complimentary tags to write your name on. It'll take the cops awhile to go over it, the photos of the two guys on the id's should be a big help plus any fingerprints.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-01 16:23|| 2005-08-01 16:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny. He doesn't look Scottish...

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Posted by BigEd 2005-08-01 16:53|| 2005-08-01 16:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Ed, I also liked the passport of Al Kaboom (AKA Quicks Draw). Did the they find the one for Baba Louie in that bag?
I agree with Steve. The mook left this behind in error or in haste.

Posted by GK 2005-08-01 17:30|| 2005-08-01 17:30|| Front Page Top

#8 This is just nuts, the name they chose for the visa, "Al-Kaboomi".
This is a joke right? Found by a taxi driver? Folks aren't that dumb, or are they.

Posted by Jan 2005-08-01 20:42|| 2005-08-01 20:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Jan:
Those are from the Rantburg regulars' stock photo collection. They have nothing to do with a particular case.

Al-Kaboom is as real as El Kabong.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-01 21:06|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-01 21:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Blush, thanks J

Posted by Jan 2005-08-01 21:17|| 2005-08-01 21:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Every time I start to whine about cartoon net's nutty collection of zooom in, zoooooom out, move side to side, mouth move only animation, I think of Quick Draw McGraw and hold my tongue.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-01 21:35|| 2005-08-01 21:35|| Front Page Top

#12 The al-Kaboomis are our generic terrorist family. When somebody turns out not to be who we thought he was, he's just some guy named Herb...

Posted by Fred 2005-08-01 23:08|| 2005-08-01 23:08|| Front Page Top

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