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Date: July 3, 2007 5:59:45 AM PDT
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Subject: O What a Tangled Web the Neocons Are Weaving ...
1. US the enemy occupier in eyes of hostile minority Sunni
"insurgents" in Iraq
2. US-sponsored Shi'ite government in Iraq in overkill against
Sunni insurgents, leading to civil war
3. US consults with Sunni Saudi Arabia, switches sides, opposes US-
sponsored Shi'ite Iraqi government
4. Iraqi government's "rogue" enforcers, Shi'ite police and
militia, relabeled "Al Qaeda" in Iraq
5. IRAN said to be behind "Al Qaeda" in Iraq
6. "Would-be" Terrorists in the UK --> Al Qaeda --> "Al Qaeda in
Iraq" --> IRAN
7. UK [Blair out but suddenly again "Coalition partner"!] back on
track for US war with IRAN
Al Qaeda In Iraq Behind U.K. Bomb Plot?
LONDON, July 3, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/03/terror/main3010835.shtml
(CBS/AP) British intelligence services increasingly believe that
the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow bare the fingerprints
of al Qaeda in Iraq, CBS News has learned.
Intelligence sources tell CBS News that the people behind the
attempts were directly recruited by the present leader of [Al
Qaeda's] Iraq franchise, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.
Police investigating the plot had arrested eight people Tuesday,
including at least six suspects trained as doctors, including a man
of Indian nationality arrested in Australia. Sources close to the
investigation told CBS News on Tuesday that another two or three
arrests were likely to be seen in Britain, but that two of the
people already in custody were likely to be released without charge.
Sources tell CBS News that al-Muhajir recruited the men in 2004 and
2005, while they were living in the Middle East, upon orders from
al Qaeda-in-Iraq <<in 2004??>> leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Al-Muhajir was told to recruit young men who could easily move into
Western countries, assimilate and lay low until the time came to
attack. Britain has a fast-track visa program for medical students
which makes it easier for them to enter the country.
The belief that this small cell of militants was recruited
purposely by a major terror organization for their specific
qualifications differentiates the group from the cell of
"homegrown" attackers who were behind the bloody July 7, 2005
attack that left 52 people dead on London's transport network.
Terrorism expert Paul Kurtz told CBS' Early Show co-anchor Harry
Smith Tuesday, "there is concern they used a trusted profession,
recently arrived to the U.K., that's a new mode of operation."
A British security official said Monday that Pakistan and several
other nations were asked to check possible links with the suspects.
The British-born terrorists behind the 2005 London bombings and
others in thwarted plots here were linked to terror training camps
and foreign radicals in Pakistan.
The eighth arrest was made Monday in Brisbane, Australia. The 27-
year-old man is also a doctor who had been working in Liverpool,
England until a few months ago, according to CBS News sources.
Britain's Sky News identified the man as Mohammed Haneef, and
reported that was arrested at Brisbane's airport as he attempted to
board a flight with a one-way ticket. Sky said officials had
refused to confirm reports that Haneef was bound for India, via
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Police were executing a number of search warrants across Queensland
state, Australia including one at the hospital where the suspect
worked recently, Australian authorities said. More arrests were
expected.
Speaking in Canberra Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister John Howard
confirmed the doctor arrested is an Indian national, and he also
revealed that a second doctor was being interviewed in relation to
information given to counterterror authorities by the first suspect.
Officials say both doctors worked at the Gold Coast Hospital in
southeast Queensland and were both recruited from Liverpool.
The Indian doctor was arrested at the state capital Brisbane
airport as he was about to leave the country Monday night. The
second doctor was being interviewed by police Tuesday but has not
been arrested.
Meanwhile, a bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion
Tuesday morning on a suspicious car parked outside a mosque in
Glasgow, reported CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer.
"There's absolutely no specific information to indicate that this
vehicle is a threat, however we have been working very closely over
the past few days with the bomb squad," Superintendent Stewart
Daniels, of Strathclyde Police, told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Police said there was no indication that the mosque had any
connection to the bombing attempt in Glasgow, or to two cars packed
with gasoline and gas canisters discovered in London on Friday.
Investigators have searched 19 locations in Britain as part of the
"fast-moving investigation" and arrested eight people, including a
total of six trained as medical doctors, CBS News can confirm.
Authorities identified Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor who worked at
the Glasgow hospital, as the other man arrested at the airport.
According to the British General Medical Council's register, a man
named Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla was registered in 2004 and
trained in Baghdad. Staff at the Glasgow hospital said Abdulla was
a diabetes specialist.
Britain's The Independent and The Muslim News newspapers reported
that a man arrested in Liverpool late Saturday was a 26-year-old
doctor from Bangalore, India, who worked at Halton Hospital in
Cheshire, northern England. Police would not immediately comment on
the reports.
The Muslim News also said the Indian doctor had used the car, cell
phone and Internet account of a fellow physician who had moved from
England to Australia around a year ago. It said police had asked
friends of the Indian for details about the man who went to Australia.
Yet another medical trail leads to Jordan, where Mohammad Asha —
arrested Saturday in northern England — received his initial
medical training.
Mohammed Asha seems a very unlikely terrorist, reports CBS News
correspondent Sheila MacVicar. And although he has not yet been
charged, there are suggestions that he is central to the plot to
blow up two massive car bombs in the heart of London last Friday,
and that he may be closely linked to the two men who attacked
Glasgow airport on Saturday.
The attempted attacks in London and Glasgow came as Britain was
already on heightened alert, with the second anniversary of the
July 5 bombings on the horizon.
In the latest attacks, two car bombs failed to explode in central
London on Friday and two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas
cylinders into the entrance of Glasgow International Airport and
then set it on fire Saturday.
There have been several security scares since the failed car
bombings, the latest coming Tuesday morning as London police
briefly blocked traffic coming into London on the Hammersmith
Bridge over the Thames while an unspecified threat was investigated
in Hammersmith. Morning rush hour traffic was soon allowed back
through the area.
The British government security official said investigators were
working on one theory that the same people may have driven the
explosives-laden cars into London and the blazing SUV in Glasgow.
The unidentified driver of the Jeep was being treated for serious
burns at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Glasgow, where he was under
arrest. Bomb experts carried out a second controlled explosion on a
car at the hospital Monday, after a similar blast Sunday. Police
said the car was linked to the investigation, but no explosives had
been found.
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