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| 2005-07-25 |
| A key suspect in the July 7 transit bombings in London has long been wanted by U.S. authorities for prosecution in this country, particularly after federal officials developed evidence three years ago that he was trying to help establish a terrorist training camp on the West Coast to wage war against Americans. But federal investigators said they did not locate Haroon Rashid Aswat, a British Muslim of Indian descent, even after they agreed to give his alleged collaborator in Seattle a light prison sentence in the hope that the man would lead them to him. Justice Department officials in Washington said Sunday that the Seattle man, Earnest James Ujaama, had been extremely helpful in putting together an indictment against another London Muslim, Egyptian cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, but that he had not led them directly to Aswat. Had they found Aswat, officials conceded, it might have prevented the deadly London attacks on three subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four suicide bombers. Investigators in Britain believe that Aswat had perhaps as many as 20 cellphone conversations with some of the London suicide bombers. But U.S. authorities questioned a report in Sunday's Seattle Times quoting unnamed current and former federal officials as saying that Washington had blocked Aswat's indictment in Seattle. "That's obviously not true," one senior Justice Department official with intimate knowledge of the Seattle case said Sunday. "There were plenty of terrorism cases handled around the country — in Buffalo, in Chicago, in North Carolina. The districts where the suspects or targets resided is generally where they were prosecuted." But, he said, indictments of suspects living abroad were usually assigned to the U.S. attorney's office in New York, which specializes in extraditing them to this country for trial. Jim Neff, investigations editor for the Seattle Times, said the paper stood behind its report. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 There are no disbelievers in foxholes. Actually, somewhere between six and 11 percent of American foxhole denizens are atheists. And yet they manage to do their bit for the team without flinching anyway. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-07-25 19:58 |
| #1 It appears that the networks are continuously "testing" all possibilities for any inroad, future venture for possible "terrorism factor" and skillfully manipulating the tension of the fishing line patiently, skillfully, noting each response and responder then with maximum exposure cutting the line and with it all the fish caught on it. The spin doctors who have invested the time and money on this "fishing excursion" sponsored by the "network" buff the progress notes with a high shine so the result is a always a success and the participants trophy winners. Tarpin fishing for terrorists. Corporately sponsored, government sanctioned, and paid for by the taxed citizen. Fighting terroism should be a black bag operation without corporate review. America has alway been good at hiding the truth with misdirection, planted stories in the media, and corruption on every level well guess what folks. You have competition on a global scale with unlimited funds and a suicidal following with a documented "ground-zero effect." God help the innocent mothers and children continually seeing this play unfold in their streets and in the lives. There are no disbelievers in foxholes. |
| Posted by: Omaing Flavique6385 2005-07-25 19:04 |