A senior British al-Qaeda operative sought by authorities since the July 7 bombing attacks on London has been arrested in Zambia. The Los Angeles Times reported today that Haroon Rashid Aswat, a 30-year-old of Indian descent who grew up in West Yorkshire, was arrested last week and is being held in Lusaka, where both British and US anti-terrorism investigators have travelled. ... Aswat, whose associations with al-Qaeda date back ten years, is believed to have entered Briton about two weeks before July 7 on a ferry into Felixstowe, and to have flown out from Heathrow hours before the four suicide bombers killed 52 rush-hour commuters on three Tube trains and a bus. Investigators have sought him since discovering that he made up to 20 calls from his mobile phone to two of the bombers. Intelligence sources told The Times that during his stay in Britain Aswat visited the home towns of all four bombers as well as selecting targets in London.
According to CNN:
British authorities denied a U.S. request to apprehend a man believed to have ties to the July 7 London bombings weeks before the deadly attacks [emphasis added], sources familiar with the investigation said Thursday. U.S. authorities wanted to capture Aswat, who was then in South Africa, and question him about a 1999 plot to establish a "jihad training camp" in Bly, Oregon. According to the sources, U.S. officials had Aswat under surveillance in South Africa weeks before the July 7 attacks that killed 52 commuters and the four bombers. U.S. authorities had asked Britain if they could take Aswat into custody, but Britain refused because he was a British citizen, the sources said. British authorities suspect Aswat lent support to the bombers.
It seems to me that Blair's government put POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND APPEASING THE LEFT AND THE ENEMY AHEAD OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY WHEN THEY REFUSED THIS REQUEST! WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS!?
Probably because the Left have made Bush, GITMO, harsh interrogations and renderings -- (in which the captured suspect is transported to a third-party nation where he might be interrogated without fear of ACLU intervention, or of alerting too many terrorists) -- have become too controvesial.
In fact, even wacky-Left anti-Semitic former CIA Binladen-desk chief Michael Scheuer has written that rendering is one of the MOST effective tools that we have to defend ourselves - and he wrote that in a NYUTIMES OP-ED!
Yet Blair's government refused to render him, and as a result... you complete the sentence. The BOTYTOM-LINE: if Aswat AHD been picked up MONTHS ago, then the bombings might NEVER have happended.
THE LESSON: the West shouold not listen to the Left, and shoul;d NOT fight this war with our arms tied behind our backs. Rendering, profiling, and VERY hgarsh interrogation MUST be allowed if we expect attacks to be minimized.
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