7/7 nuts planned to gas our Ashes aces

[Steven Collins]

7/7 nuts planned to gas our Ashes aces

09/10/06

THE July 7th bombers planned to assassinate the England and Aussie cricket teams during last summer’s Ashes.

Al-Qaida chiefs are believed to have ordered the murderers to get jobs as stewards at the second test at Edgbaston and spray deadly sarin gas inside the changing rooms.

The plans were scuppered only because one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, was a keen cricketer and unhappy with the idea.

The shock plot revelations came last night from a family pal of bus bomber Hasib Hussain, who uses the name Ahmed Hafiz.

Hafiz, 32, claims suicide bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Tanweer had received orders to kill the cricketers (pictured celebrating their Ashes win) while they were training at a terror camp in northern Kashmir, in 2004.

His words are now bound to spark security fears ahead of this winter’s Ashes tour down under.

A senior anti-terrorist officer in the 7/7 investigation wants to quiz him about his claims and Hafiz, a friend of the Hussains for 25 years, is willing to help.

The officer said: "We know Khan and Tanweer went to Pakistan, but we still don’t know which training camp they went to. Our understanding is Khan was helped by sources in Leeds."

Hafiz says the plug was pulled on the cricket murders because Tanweer got cold feet. He even says Tanweer furiously rowed with Khan, 30, over the issue.

But just days after, Hafiz claims the al-Qaida camp commanders got back in touch with the pair and told the bombers to focus on "Plan B" – the plot to devastate London’s underground.

He also claims Khan and Tanweer were put in touch with a Birmingham-based bomb making expert, a chemistry graduate in his 40s by chiefs at the Kashmir camp.

Hafiz told how Khan emerged as ringleader because he was a friend of Omar Sharif, the Derby-based terrorist who tried to blow himself up in Tel Aviv in 2003.

His partner in crime killed three people in a bar, but Sharif’s bomb failed to go off and his body was found washed up on the beach.

Hafiz added: "That was the turning point for Sidique. He felt angry and changed from being a cheerleader to an active terrorist."

He also tells how Khan first went to the terror camp in Kashmir in the summer of 2003, after being introduced by an imam in Leeds.

Camp chiefs were supposed to be very impressed when he ceremonially sacrificed a bull and ordered him to return to the UK and prepare a group of martyrs, who went on to slaughter 52 innocent victims on 7/7.

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[alkmyst]

Does anyone really still fall for this BS?

Jean-Charles Menezes suspected of being a rapist (The Sun - retracted some months later).

Traces of cocaine found during autopsy on Jean-Charles Menezes (The Sun - not yet retracted).

....& now the alleged perpetrators of the 7/7 bombings actually meant to gas the ashes team? Give me a fricking break!

Al K Myst

[zappasearcher]

The plans were scuppered only because one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, was a keen cricketer and unhappy with the idea.

truly laughable - I don't think even Daily Star readers believe what is actually written in the Daily Star.

if our intelligence service have anything to do with this then they are really slipping - or - they are telling us - yes, this is bs but it's the official truth for the history books and our excuse for more anti-terror measures.

[hampton]

retractions don't really mean anything.

it's had the desired effect.
how do they reach people who don't read the edition carrying the retraction or people who heard it by word of mouth?