----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: [SPY NEWS] Claim al Qaida 'planted evidence'
http://icealing.icnetwork.co.uk/news/tm_headline=claim-al-qaida--planted-evidence-&method=full&objectid=18108692&siteid=106484-name_page.html Claim al Qaida 'planted evidence' Nov 16 2006 A senior al Qaida operative deliberately planted evidence to encourage the United States into war against Iraq, it has been claimed. The extraordinary allegation is made by a man who reportedly spent seven years inside the al Qaida terror network working as a spy for European intelligence agencies. Omar Nasiri - not his real name - makes the claim, which is bound to re-ignite the controversy over the war, in an interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme. He alleges that a senior al Qaida operative, Ibn Sheikh Al-Libi, deliberately planted information to get America to fight Iraq. Al-Libi was captured by US forces in late 2001, handed over to the Egyptians and allegedly tortured, according to Newsnight. During interrogation he claimed that al Qaida had been training Iraqis. In the run up to the war US officials claimed there was a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the terror network - and the alleged link was one of the justifications for the hugely controversial military action in March 2003. When asked on the programme if al-Libi or any others would have told the truth if they were tortured, Nasiri answers "Never". Questioned further on whether he thought al-Libi had deliberately planted information to get the US to fight Iraq, he replies: "Exactly". In his interview, Nasiri provides an insight into how al Qaida was far more organised, coherent and determined in the 1990s than was appreciated at the time and how its reach spread to London. Nasiri also claims that MI5 were watching the now jailed Islamic cleric Abu Hamza as far back as nine years ago.
