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>>>Anyone notice that "Missouri" pronounced dialectically, comes out
"Moussaoui" ? A<>E<>R <<<
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MI5 blunders over bomber
War on Terrorism: Observer special
The making of a human timebomb
Nick Paton Walsh, Kamal Ahmed and Paul Harris
Sunday December 30, 2001
The Observer
British security services knew of links between shoe bomber Richard
Reid and one 11 September hijack suspect late last year, but failed
to track Reid before he tried to blow up an airliner, according to US
intelligence reports.
The Observer can reveal that MI5 agents intercepted phone calls
between Reid and the suspect, Zacarias Moussaoui, which directly
linked Bromley-born Reid to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda net work, but
did not realise their implication until it was too late. This was
condemned last night as a serious breakdown in intelligence.
Oliver Letwin, the Tory shadowing Home Secretary David Blunkett,
said: 'One would expect action to have been taken earlier. The Home
Secretary will need to give a convincing explanation of the reasons
for the delay.'
The calls, made between the pair in Britain and monitored by MI5,
ended abruptly when Moussaoui left Britain for Pakistan on 9 December
last year to attend an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan.
Investigators suspect Reid, who met Moussaoui in London in the mid-
Nineties and had been to Pakistan before, followed him to
Afghanistan. Moussaoui returned to London last February. Reid
reappeared in Britain last summer.
Scotland Yard was not informed of the security risk that Reid posed. MI5 had had
Moussaoui under surveillance in the UK in the months before he left for Pakistan. He
was then arrested by US authorities in August.
However, Reid was not followed or picked up for questioning in Britain. Investigators
are now scouring records of flights between London and Pakistan to see whether Reid
and Moussaoui travelled separately or together, and
if any other suspect flew with them. Reid has fervently denied being part of a
terrorist network or going to Afghanistan, although American sources insist he is
linked to al-Qaeda.
The Yard says Reid has not been a 'regular resident' in the UK since 1998, and he has
admitted spending much of his time at an'Islamic school' in Pakistan. He stopped
regular visits to the Brixton mosque in mid- 1998, and
is thought to have travelled back and forth between London and Pakistan between then
and the bombing attempt.
His last visit to Pakistan was in August when he contacted the British consulate about
a possible passport renewal, Foreign Office sources said.
Al-Qaeda soldiers, interrogated in Kandahar by the CIA, say Reid was a recruit in one
of group's camps in southern Afghanistan, and US intelligence sources confirm this.
Moussaoui and Reid 'went to the same training camp
in Afghanistan where Reid has explosives training' said a US intelligence official.
The revelation that Reid acted with the backing of a sophisticated terrorist network
linked to al-Qaeda comes as intelligence documents have also revealed that bin Laden
has been given detailed advice on making a 'hybrid'
nuclear device.
The advice came from Dr Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood, formerly the nuclear director of the
Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission, say Western intelligence services.
They say he was bin Laden's 'nuclear secretary' who directly helped the terrorist
leader in his pursuit of a nuclear capability. The documents say Mahmood has now
admitted giving him designs for devices.
Sources said that bin Laden was developing a hybrid nuclear 'gun and implosion
device'. Although the documents say he has access to radioactive material, they
conclude that it is unlikely he has enoughto explode a nuclear
bomb.
The US papers add that Mahmood met bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar in 2001
and provided information about the infrastructure needed for a nuclear weapons
programme and the effects of these devices.
Senior Government officials now admit that bin Laden is further ahead with a
development programme than was initially thought.
The advanced plans for a nuclear device and the failure to stop Reid compound growing
fears of the power and sophistication of al-Qaeda and the seeming inability of the
intelligence services to combat it.
Reid appeared in a Boston court on Friday on charges relating to his attempt to blow
up a transatlantic flight with a bomb in his shoes.
Additional reporting: Burhan Wazir
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001
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