'Thumb drive' with 7/7 plan found? - hmm

[Adrian]

'A terrorist captured near the Syrian border last month had a computer "thumb drive" that contained planning information about the July 7 suicide bombings in London, according to a U.S. military officer. '

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050906-102658-7545r.htm

[Ally]

Read this article other day, kind of links to MI5 inflitrating extremists, the guy sounds like a double agent. Also when 7/7 first occured there was talk of the 'military style explosives originating from Bosnia'.

Explosives traces 'found in suspect's luggage'

Sandra Laville
Wednesday September 7, 2005
The Guardian


A British Muslim convert who travelled across Europe in pursuit of violent jihad against America and its allies was stopped as he was about to board a Channel tunnel train to England with significant traces of high explosives in his luggage, a court heard yesterday.
London-born Andrew Rowe, 34, who was injured fighting in the Bosnian war, was engaged in the pursuit of a holy war of the kind promoted by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, the Old Bailey heard.

In a 20-page notebook found in his house in west London, Mr Rowe, a father of four, had written detailed instructions on how to fire an 82mm mortar, the jury was told. He also had a secret code which disguised "targets and explosives" as models of mobile phones.
Mark Ellison, prosecuting, said that the substitution code was designed to hide these "sensitive topics" as "an innocent message" about mobile phones.

Mr Rowe was arrested in October 2003 as he was about to cross to England from France after meeting a contact in Frankfurt. When told he was being questioned on suspicion of terrorist acts, he replied: "What terrorism?"

In his luggage police later found a rolled-up pair of walking socks with a pyjama cord attached which contained significant traces of three explosives, TNT, RDX and PETN. The socks, the prosecution alleges, had been used to clean a mortar tube or as a bung for the muzzle of the weapon.

At his home in Birmingham, police found videotapes promoting jihad against America. They included "wills" from two of the September 11 attackers justifying their actions and calling on young Muslims to carry out similar assaults.

Mr Justice Fulford told the jury yesterday the case had nothing whatsoever to do with the July 7 and 21 terrorist bombings in London. Potential jurors who had been directly affected by the attacks were excused from the jury.

Opening the case, Mr Ellison said Mr Rowe's possession of the notebook, the code and the socks showed he was engaged in the "planning, preparation or commission" of terrorist acts in pursuit of a holy war against the perceived enemies of Islam.

Mr Rowe, who denies four counts of possessing articles for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism, converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, changing his name to Yusuf Abdullah, and began travelling across Europe extensively, the court heard.

In 1995 he fought in Bosnia where he came under mortar fire and suffered shrapnel injuries to his legs which were treated during three weeks in a hospital in Zenica, north of Sarajevo.

When he returned to the UK he married and started a family. From 2000, after visiting his GP, he was receiving invalidity benefits paid into an Abbey National account.

Between August and October 2003 Mr Rowe travelled to Amsterdam, Frankfurt and France. At some point, the court heard, he was under police surveillance and on August 13 officers searched the bedroom he used in his wife's house in Westbourne Grove, west London.

They found the notebook with the mortar instructions, material on night-vision equipment, radio transmission codes for international regions, books on electronics, martial arts, histories of guerrilla war and mountaineering magazines.

The day after the raid Mr Rowe, who was in Amsterdam, went to the British consul for a new passport, saying his had been damaged in the wash.

Mr Ellison alleged that what appeared to be a visa had been removed from the old passport and water had also blurred or removed other pink country stamps.

In London a fortnight later Mr Rowe withdrew £1,000 from his Abbey National account. A few days later he took out another £6,100 and then a further £100.

In early October he travelled to Frankfurt and was visited by a contact several times at his hotel, the jury was told. Mr Rowe travelled from Frankfurt by coach and as he was about to board the Channel train in France he was arrested by Kent police.

The case continues.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1564084,00.html

*wills from 9/11 hijackers - were they found in the van with the Koran??!!

[Ally]

However the journalist Sandra Laville I have little respect for.
She wrote the article about the Khan tape last saturday in the Guardian.

Friends claim Khan's statement was faked

"In the two months since Khan left his wife and young baby at their flat in Dewsbury, and led his three recruits, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Germaine Lindsay, 19, to London to explode four bombs on the transport system, Saj and his friends have been living in denial."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1561900,00.html

She should ask police for CCTV of the four in London before smearing people.