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London 'an al-Qaida intelligence centre'
Nick Hopkins, crime correspondent
Wednesday June 26, 2002
The Guardian
Scotland Yard admitted yesterday it had "growing, darkening" concerns over the
unwitting part the UK played in the development of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
terrorist network.
Assistant commissioner David Veness, head of special operations at the
Metropolitan police, said that there was now evidence to show that Britain had been
a base for terrorist communications, recruitment, propaganda and logistical support,
and that the activity dated to the mid-1990s.
He said the Met wanted to trace a number of people who had gone missing after
leaving Britain for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months and years before
September 11.
But he insisted there was still no evidence to show the plot to attack the US last
year was hatched or supported from Britain.
Mr Veness said, though, that the post-September 11 investigation - the biggest in
the Met's history - had uncovered several worrying themes about al-Qaida.
"Emerging themes" included the financing of the terrorist group, the procurement of
equipment, the supply of people from the UK to al-Qaida bases in Pakistan and
Afghanistan, and communications between extremists.
"London, above all other UK cities, had been a focus of communication activity for
al-Qaida," he said.
Last year, anti-terrorist police and security services warned that up to 200 British-
based supporters of Osama bin Laden could pose a significant threat to the UK if
they answered a call to arms. Mr Veness indicated that this figure had increased but
he refused to say by how much.
He insisted that the concern about al-Qaida's development here had not made the
UK more of a hub than France, Germany, Spain or Italy.
Scotland Yard is still more concerned about individual terrorist sleepers operating in
the UK than the activities of fundamentalists like Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002
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