London 7/7 Terror Suspect Linked to British Intelligence?

[Mark E. Smith]

August 1, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca

A British citizen named Haroon Rashid Aswat, living in Lusaka, Zambia, is wanted for questioning in relation to the 7/7 London bomb attacks.

(Later)

The same source (Fox News) which presents Aswat as the "mastermind," also points to Aswat's relationship to British and US intelligence through a British based Islamic organization Al-Muhajiroun.

In an interview with Fox News (29 July 2005), intelligence expert John Loftus revealed that Haroon Rashid Aswat had connections to the British Secret Service MI-6: "The entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British Government, MI-6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him ..."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050801&articleId=782

John Loftus is described here as being a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the Justice Department. An interesting interview with Mr. Loftus follows the above quoted passages. According to Loftus this Haroon fellow is not exactly unknown to certain Western intelligence services.

[Athame]

1. Why does this not surprise me?

:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:
:tinfoilhat:

[WhiteTara]

2. I seem to remember a similar case in the US

right after 9/11. These guys are incredible.

[nolabels]

4. The whole rotten smelling carcass of it all to be exact

People who are abused often look to the abuser for signs of reassurance (when they don't know any better). These abused people wrap their emotions in the abuser thinking somehow they will come around to the good side or something. All I can say is "GET OVER IT". If you can imagine everything you might of ever been told was a lie it becomes much easier.

More evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
FBI inspector general’s report:

by Patrick Martin

June 21, 2005
World Socialist Website

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A report released June 9 by the FBI’s Office of the Inspector General raises new questions about the role of the US government in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The internal FBI study provides several important revelations about how US intelligence agencies ignored and even suppressed warnings in the period leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Press accounts published within hours of the report’s release gave a very distorted picture of the document, which runs to more than 400 pages. No follow-up reports, based on a thorough study of the text, have yet appeared in the mass media.

The initial media commentary invariably voiced the now-standard claim that the FBI and CIA were guilty of a “failure to connect the dots,” due to bureaucratic lethargy, individual incompetence, inter-agency rivalries, even poorly performing software systems. This presentation of events is utterly unserious.

The US intelligence apparatus is the most powerful instrument for spying in the world, not a group of Keystone Cops. If it ignored warnings and suppressed information, a legitimate presumption is that it did so willfully. The question must be posed: did one or more agencies or high-level officials provide protection for known Al Qaeda associates who ultimately participated in the hijack-bombings?

Exactly who knew what, and at what level of the government, is not yet clear. But the political benefits of 9/11 for the Bush administration are undeniable. It used the terrorist attacks as a lever to swing American public opinion behind a major shift in policy, both foreign and domestic. Without 9/11, it would have been politically impossible for the government to embark on military interventions in Central Asia and the Middle East and launch an unprecedented attack on civil liberties at home.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAR20050621&articleId=491

[wli]

3. how's Chussodnovsky's reputation?

If it's still intact, I think we can shut down the "tinfoil" claims wrt. MIHOP.

[reprehensor]

7. He's been screaming MIHOP since shortly after 9/11.

If you tour around his site, you'll see that he's been pretty consistent.

The only thing he's ever retracted is the claim popularized by the authors of 'Forbidden Truth' that bin Mahfouz is Osama's brother-in-law.

Of course, that claim was originally publicized by James Woolsey. Only problem; there is no documentation to back the claim. So bin Mahfouz took Brisard and his co-author to libel court in Britain where evidence must be presented to prove claims are true (rather than the plaintiff having to prove economic damages due to libel).

So he's consistent, persistent, and because he's MIHOP, he has been marginalized, even though many of his claims can be backed up through maintream sources, lots of them online.

[dArKeR]

5. The Strange London – 9/11 Coincidences

Reviewing these events, 3 key facts about the London attacks seem eerily similar to 9/11:

Strange Coincidence #1 – Similar to 9/11, the London bombings of July 7, 2005 took place at the exact locations “bombing drills” were taking place that morning.

September 11th

Agency planned drill for plane crash last Sept. 11
Associated Press -- August 22, 2002

WASHINGTON - In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft crashed into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident.

Michael Kane

On September 11, 2001, the Air Force was in its second day of annual wargame drills, titled VIGILANT GUARDIAN, designed to test national air response systems, which incidentally involved hijacking scenarios. In addition the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) which is staffed by military and CIA personnel, and is in charge of most American spy satellites, was running a drill for the scenario of an errant aircraft crashing into its headquarters. NRO headquarters also happens to be located just four miles from Washington’s Dulles airport – where Flight 77 (the flight said to have hit the Pentagon) originated...

London Bombings...

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3411

[WhiteTara]

8. why am I not surprised? Shocked and sickened but

not surprised. The whole world has become an insane asylum and no matter where you turn, the inmates have control and are killing everyone in sight.

[reprehensor]

6. Loftus video link.

GNN - downloadable Quicktime viddy at top of thread

GNN loads slowly, be patient.

[dArKeR]

9. Is that the FOX video link we're supposed to get?

I won't click on FOX unless absolutely necessary! Thanks!