Khyam, Garcia and Hussain also deny a charge under the Terrorism Act 2000 of possession of an article for terrorism - 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser - between November 5, 2003, and March 31, 2004. The fertiliser was found at a west London storage depot in 2004. Brothers Khyam and Shuja Mahmood also deny having aluminium powder for terrorism between October 1, 2003, and March 31, 2004. Aluminium powder can also be used to make bombs.

The judge, Sir Michael Astill, warned the jury not to be influenced by anything outside the trial process, saying: "Terrorism has been at the forefront of matters and debate worldwide for a long time. "It became the subject of much discussion of late in the United Kingdom after the bombings in London on July 7, 2005. Much of the factual reporting has been fair and accurate. Some of it has not. "Many different theories and views have been offered and inevitably most members of the public will have an opinion about terrorism and its causes. It is therefore reasonable to expect that you bring to this court a point of view. It would not be reasonable to expect you to approach your task now as if you had never had an opinion."

But, he added, it was essential that the jurors tried to put aside any opinion they did have. He warned the jury not to carry out their own research on the internet and told them that the trial was likely to last "many months". - icnorthlondononline.icnetwork.co.uk

Bluewater shopping complex targetted by terror cell

Wednesday, 22nd March 2006, 13:04

Category: Crime and Punishment - LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) -

Seven British al Qa'eda supporters claimed a nightclub was a legitimate target because of "all the slags dancing around", a court heard today. And the gang wanted to blow up a massive shopping centre full of families on a busy Saturday to make an "impact" similar to the Madrid commuter train bombings, the Old Bailey was told.

Bluewater in Kent was identified as a potential target and the terrorist cell were keen to set off a massive fertiliser bomb quickly in the aftermath of the bombings of commuter trains in the Spanish capital by al Qa'eda that left nearly 200 people dead. The group also discussed targetting a central London nightclub and said the target was justified and the clubbers were not "innocent" because of "all the slags dancing around."

The potential targets were picked up during the secret bugging of the cell's conversations by the security services and anti-terror police who put two of the alleged defendants under surveillance from February 2004, the court heard. Omar Khyam, 24, had travelled to Pakistan and had attended terror training camps on handling explosives while Jawad Akbar, 22, had claimed to be working for the terror group's "number three" Abdul Hadi, the court heard.

The British nationals, of Pakistani descent, were then alleged to have gathered more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser for their campaign. But the plot was smashed after more than 700 anti-terror police swooped on a west London storage depot and discovered the fertiliser, which could be detonated to cause a deadly explosion in 2004.

The seven, the majority from Crawley in West Sussex, were arrested on March 30 2004, a week before two of the alleged plotters were to fly to Pakistan. Khyam, his younger brother Shujah-Ud-Din Mahmood, 18, Anthony Garcia, 27, Nabeel Hussain, 20, Akbar, Waheed Mahmood, 33, and Salahuddin Amin, 30, are accused of conspiring to cause an explosion likely to endanger life contrary to section 3 (1)(a) of the Explosive Substances Act 1883. At the same time Canadian Momin Khawaja was arrested and awaits trial for his part in the conspiracy in Ontario. And American citizen Mohamed Babar who has pleaded guilty to two offences described by US officials as the "British Bomb Plot" is due to give evidence against the group.

It is alleged the seven Britons plotted between January 1, 2001 and March 31 2004 to set off a series of bombs against as yet unidentified targets in the UK.

Khyam, Garcia and Hussain are also charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 of possessing an article for terrorism - namely 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser between November 5, 2003 and March 31, 2004. Brothers Khyam and Mahmood also deny having aluminium powder - an ingredient in explosives - between the same dates.

The court heard that a listening device placed in Khyam's car recorded a conversation between Khyam and Waheed Mahmood on March 19, 2004 - eight days after the deadly Madrid bombs that ripped apart four rush hour trains which left 192 people dead and 2,050 people wounded.

Prosecutor David Waters QC told the jury: "This defendant, Waheed Mahmood made it clear he wanted to act and to do so sooner rather than later.

"He asked Khyam: 'Is it worth getting all the brothers together tonight and asking who would be ready to go?' "And his general attitude was revealed very clearly when in relation to the Madrid bombing he said: 'Spain was a beautiful job weren't it, absolutely beautiful man, so much impact.'

"Waheed even raised the possibility of, as he described it: 'a little explosion at Bluewater - tomorrow if you want. I don't know how big it would be we haven't tested it but we could tomorrow - do one tomorrow.'

"Bluewater is, as you will know, a very large shopping centre in Kent and this conversation was taking place on the Friday so the following day would be the Saturday."

Five days before on March 14, Khyam and his younger brother were recorded in the car praising the Madrid bombing.

Mr Waters QC said: "When the view was expressed that the Madrid bombing should have been carried out in June because there would have been all those families on holiday, Shujah's reaction was to say 'fantissimo' and Khyam's reaction was it seems to compare it in that respect with the Bali bombing."

The court also heard that Mahmood worked for Transco, the company responsible for Britain's electricity anfd gas infrastructure and he had CDs detailing the country-wide system.

And a bug placed in Akbar's Uxbridge home revealed that Akbar and Khyam discussed potential targets on February 22.

Mr Waters QC said: "It was a conversation which ranged over a number of topics of interest to young men pursuing such a plan as they were concerned with, however a reoccurring theme was that of potential targets.

"Jawad Akbar referred to attacks upon the utilities, gas, water or electrical supplies. Alternatively, a big nightclub in central London might be a target.

"As he put it 'The big nightclub in central London, no-one can put their hands up and say they are innocent - those slags dancing around.'

"Indeed, as the conversation went on, Jawad Akbar went on: 'I think the club thing you should do but the gas would be much harder.'"

Days later he told his wife that he did not want to appear too religious to avoid police attention and that he might have to return to Pakistan.

Mr Waters said Akbar told his wife: "'Whatever they are going to make me do is going to someone who is going to act like completely stupid, they are going to train me up and probably send me back here, act like completely stupid and do a big mission.'

"He went on to say: 'When we kill the Kuf (non-believers) this is because we know Allah hates the Kuf.'"

Then on March 1, he sounded anxious because two CDs from a set of 14 CDs from Transco detailing the gas and electricity network were missing.

Mr Waters added: "He said in relation to this: 'Its something else much more seriouser (Cor), I don't even know where I put them..its CDs...two CDs... They got Transco written on them... Transco, you know what if we get raided today we're finished.'

"He went on to say: 'No I wasn't I was going to say its serious and that's it... I'm never going to tell you what it is.'"

Mr Waters QC said the conversation came to an abrupt end with the words: "'The less you know the better, get your stuff and get into the kitchen.'"

The court heard that Khyam and Shujah planned to flee to Pakistan on April 6 but were arrested on March 30.

Khyam, from Crawley but who also lived in Slough; Shujah-Ud-Din Mahmood, from Crawley; Garcia, from Ilford; Hussain from Horley, Surrey and also a student at Brunel University in Uxbridge; Akbar from Crawley and Uxbridge; Mahmood from Crawley; and Amin from Luton, Beds, all deny the charges.

The trial, expected to last six months, continues

'Al-Qaeda cell plotted UK bombings'

ANGUS HOWARTH 22nd March 2006

SEVEN British al-Qaeda supporters plotted to blow up pubs, nightclubs and trains in Britain because the UK had been left "unscathed" in the US-led war on terror, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. The Muslim men are alleged to have attended terror training camps in Pakistan before gathering more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser for their campaign. The alleged plot was smashed after more than 700 anti-terror police swooped on a west London storage depot and discovered 600kg of the substance used to make bombs. The seven men were arrested after Mohamed Babar, an American citizen, pleaded guilty to two offences described by US officials as the "British Bomb Plot", it was alleged.

Omar Khyam, 24, from Crawley, West Sussex, was said to be "at the centre of operations". The other defendants are his brother Shujah Mahmood, 19, Waheed Mahmood, 34, and Jawad Akbar, 22, all from Crawley, Anthony Garcia, 23, of Ilford, east London, Nabeel Hussain, 20, of Horley, Surrey, who was a student at Brunel University, and Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, Bedfordshire.

They deny conspiring to cause explosions between 1 January, 2003 and 31 March, 2004.

Khyam, Garcia and Hussain also deny a charge under the Terrorism Act 2000 of possession of an article for terrorism - the 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser. Brothers Omar Khyam and Shuja Mahmood also deny having aluminium powder for terrorism. Mohammed Momin Khawaja, a Canadian national, is awaiting trial there over the plot.

Prosecutor David Waters told the jury: "The allegation is that they played their respective roles in a plan to acquire the ingredients necessary to manufacture a bomb or bombs which would be deployed at the very least to destroy strategic plant within the United Kingdom, or more realistically, to kill and injure citizens of the United Kingdom."

By the time police made arrests, Mr Waters said, the group had most of the necessary components in place "and all that remained before their plans achieved their ultimate goal was for the target or targets to be finally agreed".

The jurors heard that it was of significance to the case that Waheed Mahmood had worked for National Grid Transco - a contractor that operates the UK's electricity and gas supplies. Mr Waters told how in July 2003 members of the group travelled to a training camp in Kalam, Pakistan, posing as tourists visiting lakes and glaciers, even taking photographs of themselves. At the camp, they are alleged to have carried out a successful explosion using between 0.5kg and 1kg of ammonium nitrate, and aluminium powder, and making a U-shaped hole under the ground. The court heard how two of the defendants had claimed they were working for Abdul Hadi, said by Khyam to be the third most senior al-Qaeda terrorist. Mr Waters said Babar met Waheed Mahmood who was already an al-Qaeda supporter in Pakistan, towards the end of 2001. But at the time, both opted out of attending a terrorist training camp because they "agreed that it would be crazy to do that and put their heads above the parapet so soon after 9/11" the court heard.

However, in November 2002 the American travelled to London where he met Khyam and what he described as the "Crawley lot" and Amin while raising funds for the Afghani Taleban. Babar returned to Pakistan in early 2003 where he met Garcia and Amin and thoughts turned to targeting the West. Nothing materialised and by Easter 2003 Babar, Khyam and Mahmood were back in the UK, where Babar met Khyam's younger brother. But in July 2003 Babar was back in Pakistan and joined terrorist training camps along with Khyam, his brother, Amin, Akbar, Garcia and Canadian-based accomplice Khawaja.

Mr Waters added that Babar obtained aluminium powder and ammonium nitrate - a vital component for an improvised explosion.

The court heard that by autumn 2003 they had plotted to smuggle detonators into the UK by ferry from Belgium because security would be less strict.

The trial continues.

Plans to hold terror suspects for longer may be revived

MINISTERS could resurrect plans to extend the period for which police can hold terrorist suspects without charge, Charles Clarke signalled yesterday.

Four months after MPs rejected plans for 90-day detention, the Home Secretary said that a new extension could be proposed as soon as next year. Although the Terrorism Bill that will extend the pre-charge period to 28 days from 14 is still passing through parliament, the government is already planning a new "omnibus" terror bill that will amalgamate and supersede all existing laws.

"I don't think we should pre-judge and say what we have got on the length of detention is there forever," Mr Clarke told MPs at Westminster when asked about the new legislation. "I'm not advertising a view that we wish to re-visit 28 days. But I am not accepting that it will be 28 days come what may." Mr Clarke repeated his view that MPs decision to reject the 90-day measure has led to "a state of affairs where we are less well protected [from terrorist attacks] than we should be."

David Davis, the Tory shadow home secretary, warned Mr Clarke that the Opposition would continue to block any "divisive" move to resurrect the 90-day detention plan. "When parliament previously defeated the issue of 90-day detention, the government should have realised that the British people would not tolerate such Draconian measures," Mr Davis said. - scotsman.com

Diarmuid O'Neill was killed by an officer known only as "Kilo" when armed police raided a hotel in london in 1996.

ONEILL DEATH HEARING IN LONDON - FOUR CHARGED

Four men were charged at an Old Bailey court in London on October 21, with conspiring to cause explosions between January 1 and September 24 last year and possession of explosives. The four, James Murphy (26), with an address at Chelsea London, Patrick Kelly (31), originally from Birmingham but since living in London, Michael Phillips (22), Crawley, Sussex but originally from Belfast and Brian McHugh (31), who was described in court as the unit commander.

He was in London by August and was seen with Kelly on a security camera at Hammersmith Broadway station in west London on August 11. Diarmaid ONeill (27), the Provisional mercilessly gunned down in a British police operation at his hotel room in August was described by the prosecution as having been "at the heart of the conspiracy" and a vital member of a Provisional active service unit preparing for a lorry bomb blitz in England.

In what bears all the hallmarks of a show-trial, a fictitious British police sniper identified only as Kilo gave the London police version of events through the mouth of prosecutor David Waters.

Apparently Diarmaid ONeill was shot because when Kilo moved in to arrest him in his London hotel room all he "could see was a figure kneeling towards him. He thought he was going to be shot so he fired".

Then we are led to believe that this professionally-trained marksman standing before his victim at point-blank range "thought he had missed and fired more shots." "With the benefit of hindsight," Waters opined, Kilo "need not have fired as no firearms were in the room."

The killing of ONeill occurred six weeks after the discovering of a bomb factory and storage unit in Hornsey north London, containing explosives and bomb-making equipment together with three Kalashnikov rifles, two handguns and ammunition. The four have denied the charges against them.

Waters alleged that ONeill had been responsible for renting a safe store at Hornsey where the explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate and sugar -- disguised in bags of compost -- was delivered. He said Murphy was a personal friend of ONeeill. Phillips was described as having previous experience "in electronics training" which may have been of assistance to the project you are investigating."

Kelly was born in Birmingham. He and McHugh needed a base in London to be in touch with the others, Waters said.

- Irish Republican info service

N.Y. man admits he aided al Qaeda, set up jihad camp

Mohammed Babar agrees to cooperate with investigation

By Jonathan Wald - CNN Wednesday, August 11, 2004 NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York man has admitted to smuggling money and military supplies to a senior member of al Qaeda in Pakistan, setting up a jihad training camp and assisting in a bombing plot in the United Kingdom.

Mohammed Junaid Babar, a naturalized American originally from Pakistan, pleaded guilty June 2 to five counts of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, as well as providing the support, according to a court transcript recently released.

Babar is being held without bail and faces up to 70 years in prison, but Federal Judge Victor Marrero indicated Babar will serve less jail time under a plea deal.

Babar has agreed to cooperate fully with any investigation or prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office and he may apply to the witness security program, which would relocate his family under a new identity.

Babar told Marrero he provided night-vision goggles, sleeping bags, waterproof socks, waterproof ponchos and money to a high-ranking al Qaeda official in South Waziristan, a Pakistani region near the Afghan border.

Babar said he delivered the supplies personally in January and February 2004 and someone else transported the items in the summer of 2003.

"I understood that the money and supplies that I had given to al Qaeda was supposed to be used in Afghanistan ... against U.S. or ... international forces or against the Northern Alliance," Babar said.

The Northern Alliance helped remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan by joining forces with U.S. and British soldiers.

"I set up a jihad training camp," Babar told the court, "where those who wanted to go into Afghanistan where they could learn how to use weapons, and also, you know, any explosive devices that they wanted to test out over there."

Babar, 29, confessed he supplied people who attended the training camp with aluminum powder and attempted to buy ammonium nitrate for them "with the knowledge that it was going to be used for a plot somewhere in the U.K."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Baroni said in court that Babar's training camp lasted for three to four weeks in July 2003 and he was involved in planning a bomb plot in Britain from around December 2002 until about March 2004. Baroni said prosecutors had witnesses, documents and other physical evidence to prove the case against Babar.

Babar, who grew up in the New York borough of Queens, was arrested after he returned from Pakistan in April. One senior law enforcement source said Babar had been "on the radar screen" before he was taken into custody. Babar is believed to have been associated with a group in London known as al Muhajiroun, which includes Pakistani terrorists, according to law enforcement sources. Al Muhajiroun was under British surveillance and members of the group purchased nearly a ton of ammonium nitrate, a raw material used to make bombs, the source said.

British police foiled an apparent bomb plot March 30 when they arrested eight men and seized about 1,320 pounds (600 kg) of ammonium nitrate from a self-storage warehouse in west London. Six of the men -- five of Pakistani descent -- were charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing ammonium nitrate for possible use in terrorism.

Ammonium nitrate was a key ingredient in the bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1995, killing 168 people, as well as a bomb that destroyed a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, in 2002, killing more than 200. - CNN

Supergrass met Hamza and Omar Bakri

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - A supergrass giving evidence against seven alleged British al Qa'eda supporters today told the Old Bailey that he had met preachers of hate Abu Hamza and Omar Bakri after coming under their spell. American citizen Mohamed Babar, 31, told the court that he became radicalised after the first Gulf War in the early 1990s and drifted towards radical Muslim groups such as Al-Muhajiroun, then headed by Omar Bakri.

He told the Old Bailey: "I went to the London office of this organisation (Al Muhajiroun). The reason I went there was to meet Sheikh Omar Bakri. "At that time after 9/11 I did not have any money. "I phoned Al Muhajiroun and said I really wanted to go to Pakistan and I said I just had money for tickets but nothing else. "I was given £300 with the promise of more to come." He said that he would regularly attend meetings held by the group at universities and mosques in America that calls for a worldwide Muslim state and also visited the website set up by hook handed Abu Hamza.

Babar, a former pharmacist student who dropped out of St John's University in New York after just one year, said he was first in contact with Omar Bakri's organisation through its New York representative before 9/11.

He said: "I was able to communicate with them over the internet and we spoke numerous times over the phone and read their literature." He added Abu Hamza was an influence and said: "I did not really have any communication with him at this time when I was living in America. He did have a website called Supporters of Sharia that I would frequently go to."

Prosecutor David Waters QC asked: "You say you did not have any contact with him then, are you saying that you had contact with him later?"

Babar replied: "Yes I had contact with Sheik Abu Hamza. It would be after 9/11."

He told the court that he was drawn to Omar Bakri and Abu Hamza because they called for Muslims to unite against their enemies.

Asked what prompted him to go to "physically fight Jihad" Babar said: "I knew after 9/11 America was going to invade Afghanistan.

"I felt this was my last chance to go. I knew if I did not go now there would not be another chance."

He told the court that within 10 days of the attacks on New York and Washington, he had arrived in London where he met two "brothers" from Al Muhajiroun and he met Omar Bakri who gave him £300 so he could travel onto to Pakistan, with the promise of more money to follow.

There he met at least 15-20 Britons who were undergoing terror training for the Jihad, including Omar Khyam, Anthony Garcia, Waheed Mahmood, and Salahuddin Amin although they all used aliases. But it was only after the September 11 attacks on New York, that he decided to travel to Pakistan with the help of Al-Muhajiroun and to go and fight Jihad in Afghanistan.

He also told the court that his mother worked at The World Trade Centre on the first floor but she escaped unharmed in the 2001 attacks.

Babar, who was born in Pakistan but arrived in New York when he was just two, has pleaded guilty to two offences described by US officials as the "British Bomb Plot." He is giving evidence against seven British radical Muslims accused of plotting to explode a half tonne fertiliser bomb against targets such as the Bluewater shopping centre, nightclubs, pubs and the railways, electricity and gas mains.

Omar Khyam, 24, his younger brother Shujah-Ud-Din Mahmood, 18, Anthony Garcia, 27, Nabeel Hussain, 20, Jawad Akbar, 22, Waheed Mahmood, 33, and Salahuddin Amin, 30, are accused of conspiring to cause an explosion likely to endanger life contrary to section 3 (1)(a) of the Explosive Substances Act 1883.

It is alleged the seven Britons plotted between January 1, 2001 and March 31 2004 to set off a series of bombs against as yet unidentified targets in the UK. Khyam, Garcia and Hussain are also charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 of possessing an article for terrorism - namely 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser between November 5, 2003 and March 31, 2004. Brothers Khyam and Mahmood also deny having aluminium powder - an ingredient in explosives - between the same dates. Khyam, from Crawley but who also lived in Slough; Shujah-Ud-Din Mahmood, from Crawley; Garcia, from Ilford; Hussain from Horley, Surrey and also a student at Brunel University in Uxbridge; Akbar from Crawley and Uxbridge; Mahmood from Crawley; and Amin from Luton, Beds, all deny the charges.

The trial, expected to last six months, continue - lse.co.uk

Terrorists Planned Attack on UK Nightclubs Linked to American

by Jim Kouri Mar 23, 2006

British citizens were shocked to hear that a terrorist cell linked to Al-Qaeda plotted to bomb pubs, nightclubs and trains in an intense, coordinated terrorist attack in the United Kingdom. These reports emanated from the trial of terror suspects in London's courthouse, the Old Bailey.

One alleged member of the terrorist cell, Mohammed Babar, a Pakistani-born American citizen who has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in the British bomb plot, is expected to testify against the British defendants.

The terror suspects had trained at terror camps in Pakistan where they formulated the plot after practicing with ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder to create improvised explosive devices.

The terrorist plot to murder and injure hundreds, if not thousands, of Britons may have involved 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and they planned to smuggle detonators into the UK through Belgium hidden in small radios, the court heard.

Two of the defendants claimed to be under the command of Al-Qaeda's number-three leader, according to the prosecution. Most of the necessary components were in place and all that remained before their plans achieved their ultimate goal was for the target or targets to be finally agreed upon.

One member of the terrorist cell, Waheed Mahmood, had been working for National Grid Transco a company that operates the high voltage electricity system in England and Wales and the high pressure gas system in Britain. The aim of the plot was to destroy a strategic plant within Britain or to kill and injure citizens of the UK as possible, the Daily Mail reported.

A great deal of preparation had been done in Pakistan but the targets were to be in the UK, according to the prosecution. In July 2003, the group Muslim British citizens travelled to a training camp in Pakistan with tourist visas claiming they were visiting lakes and glaciers. At the terrorist training camp they trained to use explosives.

The lead prosecutor claims they also used false names in Pakistan, for instance one of the defendants used the name Hamza. In order to communicate with one another, codes were used in e-mails such as referring to detonators as "cigarettes". Omar Khyam, 24, was said to be at the center of operations.

The other defendants are his brother Shujah Mahmood, 19, Waheed Mahmood, 34, and Jawad Akbar, 22, Anthony Garcia, 23, Nabeel Hussain, 20, who was a student at Brunel University, and Salahuddin Amin, 31. They all deny conspiring to cause explosions between January 1, 2003, and March 31, 2004.

Khyam, Garcia and Hussain also deny a charge under the Terrorism Act 2000 of possession an article for terrorism -- the 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Brothers Omar Khyam and Shuja Mahmood also deny having aluminium powder for terrorism. A Canadian man Mohammed Momin Khawaja is awaiting trial there over the plot, according to the Daily Mail. - postchronicle.com/

columnists include Patrick J. Buchanan,

and one Oliver L. North... who says in a recent op-ed: "Political correctness is a shackle around our ankles by which Islamists are leading us to our demise."

Terror informant names plotters

Babar says he went to Pakistan, like the London Seven, to fight

Ian Macleod The Ottawa Citizen - Friday, March 24, 2006 LONDON -

An Islamic extremist-turned-police informant began naming names minutes after taking the witness box at the London Seven terror trial yesterday. The testimony of Mohammed Judaid Babar, a 33-year-old New York City university dropout and convicted terrorist, capped an already dramatic day.

Morning rush-hour traffic in central London was halted to make way for a screaming police convoy that deposited Mr. Babar at the Old Bailey after retrieving him from the secret location where he is being hidden. Overhead, police and media helicopters trailed the speeding caravan to the courthouse, where it was met by a squad of intimidating London police officers wielding large black military assault rifles. Others guarded the entrances to Courtroom No. 8, where Mr. Babar, his brow locked in an anxious furrow, took the stand at 3:45 p.m.

He is here to save what he can of his own skin. After pleading guilty in 2004 of providing support to al-Qaeda, he is awaiting sentencing in a New York federal court. He is hoping to lighten his prison sentence, the London trial heard this week, in return for testifying here about his role in setting up an Afghan terrorist training camp and to helping plot an alleged bombing campaign in and around the British capital.

Seven young British men, charged with plotting to blow up pubs, clubs, trains and a giant shopping mall in Britain, stared intently at Mr. Babar from the courtroom's heavily guarded prisoners' box.

Momin Khawaja of Ottawa is named -- but not charged -- as a co-conspirator and will face trial in Ottawa next year. He is in an Ottawa jail cell and, like the others, denies all charges.

Bill Boutzouvis, the Ottawa Crown attorney handling the Khawaja case, sat at the back of the court yesterday, not far from a clutch of grim-faced Scotland Yard Special Branch counterterrorism officers and U.S. federal marshals.

The pulse in the room quickened as Crown prosecutor David Waters, cloaked in a black gown and traditional barrister's wig, rose before Judge Sir Michael Astill and began questioning his star witness in the biggest terrorism trial in Britain since the IRA cases of the 1970s.

For 30 minutes, the bearded and broad-shouldered Mr. Babar recounted his childhood from the age of two in New York, how he dreamed of becoming a doctor. Instead, he ended up in his native Pakistan as an Islamic jihadist for the group al-Muhajiroon, supplying cash and military equipment to al-Qaeda and other Islamist fighters in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks against the U.S. In a bizarre twist, his mother was working in one of the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan when the jetliners struck that morning. She survived.

He became an Islamist warrior. "When 9/11 came, that's when I decided it would be the best thing for me to do," he told the court, speaking quickly in a nervous voice.

"I knew that Americans would be invading Afghanistan and that this was the best time to go."

What had begun a decade earlier as an innocent interest in Islamic political issues was now a seething rage over Western involvement in Muslim nations and culture.

He already knew Sheik Omar Bakri, the British-based leader of al-Muhajiroun, then banned in Britain and now disbanded. Soon after, he said, he made contact with Sheik Abu Hamza, the extremist cleric at the the North London Central Mosque, infamously known as the Finsbury Park mosque, a one-time suspected hotbed for terrorist recruiting.

Mr. Hamza was charged by British authorities last year with, among other things, inciting the killing of Jews and other non-Muslims. He was sentenced last month to seven years in prison for inciting racial hatred and soliciting murder.

Less than two weeks after the attacks on Lower Manhattan and Washington, Mr. Babar was on his way to Pakistan, via London. When he arrived in Pakistan, he said he met 15 to 20 other men, many from London and the bedroom community of Crawley. They also were there "to fight."

Do you recall the names of those men? Mr. Waters asked.

"Ausmann," better known as defendant Omar Khyam, 24.

"Abdul Waheed," -- defendant Waheed Mahmood, 33.

"Abdul Rehman," -- defendant Anthony Garcia, 27.

"Khalid," -- defendant Salahuddin Amin, 30.

"Tanweer, from London." One of the four suicide bombers who killed themselves and 52 London subway and bus commuters last July 7 was Shehzad Tanweer, 22.

At 4:17 p.m. the judge adjourned court and sent the 12-member jury home for the night. They return this morning. Mr. Babar's testimony is expected to last for a month. - cryptome.org

to recap: Less than two weeks after the attacks on Lower Manhattan and Washington, Mr. Babar was on his way to Pakistan, via London. When he arrived in Pakistan, he said he met 15 to 20 other men, many from London and the bedroom community of Crawley. They also were there "to fight." "Tanweer, from London." - named by supposed supergrass Mohammed Judaid Babar Tanweer was supposedly in Pakistan in 2001 - this suggests to me that this supergrass has been told to say this: under duress if Mohammed Judaid Babar & Tanweer were in Pakistan in 2001 ...Babar would have met him and presumbly Tanweer would have just said "i'm from Leeds in England..." Mohammed Babar, has apparently pleaded guilty in New York to a role in the British bomb plot...which one? The London bombs or the Fertiliser plot? if he had helped plan an operation with the 4 London Bombers you would think Babar would know where the operatives were from wouldn't you? after the London bombings it was reported that Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer three months in Pakistan in 2004. They were tracked by a system called Pisces in which everyone who comes into Pakistan legally, via any port of entry, is photographed. It was introduced after 911...when exactly??

Passengers' identity system installed By Our Reporter LAHORE, November 11, 2002 : Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider on Monday inaugurated the Personal Identification Secure and Comparison Evaluation System (PISCES) at the Lahore airport, terming it inevitable for the national security. The system has already been installed and become operational at the country's two other international airports in Karachi and Islamabad. The function of the PISCES, completed at a cost of Rs300 million, is to computerize the record of passengers travelling into and out of the country to check the movement of suspected terrorists and illegal immigrants. The system will be transferred to the new airport terminal which is expected to be inaugurated in January next. Speaking on the occasion, the minister said the launch of the PISCES would help improve the security system. Such systems would also be installed at the Peshawar and Quetta airports next week and at the remaining airports and exit points by March next. All intelligence agencies and police would benefit from it in solving criminal cases, he added. Mr Haider said over two million illegal immigrants lived in Karachi which reflected weakness of the country's immigration system. The name of the national airline, he said, had also been tarnished at the international level because of the immigration officials' inability to check illegal immigrants travelling by it due to loopholes in the exist system. The minister said a Machine Recordable Project (MRP) was in the pipeline and would be installed at all airports in a couple of months. Terming the project of international standards, he said, it would cost Rs2.8 billion. To improve the security and check the illegal immigration at the country's western borders, a sum of Rs5 billion had been allocated, he said. He said about $13 million were also allocated to improve policing in the country. He asked police to change their culture and enhance efficiency. Mr Haider assured that these projects would be completed within two years. The new government would also continue implementation of these projects, he added. Later talking to reporters, he denied press reports that the PISCES was being connected with the FBI. He said Pakistan only provided information to the FBI about suspected terrorists. Replying to a question that the PISCES was funded by the FBI, he said Pakistan was a partner of the international coalition against terrorism and there was no harm in taking funds for such projects. He said Dr Amir Aziz was in the custody of the intelligence agencies and was not being handed over to the FBI. He said he had arranged a telephonic conversation between him and his family and the matter would be resolved in a week. He said Dr Amir's name had surfaced after the arrest of the suspected Al Qaeda men from Pakistan. The presence of FBI officials in Pakistan was always in single digit and it was authorized to arrest any one from Pakistan. He suggested that politician should sit together and form government with consensus. He ruled out chances of re-elections, saying huge money was needed for it and the country could not afford it. Earlier, FIA director general Mohib Hasan said the PISCES would make the country a more orderly state. The PISCES was initiated in 1998 and new recruitments in the FIA would ensure the success of this programme. He said the PISCES would help detect those who travelled on illegal documents, and suspected terrorists and others who were required in criminal cases would be arrested easily. He said the new system was inter-linked with all FIA offices in the country. Project director Amad Jaffery said the PISCES was linked to the country's entry and exit points. The system had two stages. At the primary stage, the passengers would be required to provide their travel history to immigration officers at the time of their arrival and departure at the city's international airport. And if any of the passengers was found suspected, he would have to get through the second stage in which finger prints, digital photography and other scanning would be done. - www.dawn.com

PISCES is a LIVE mainline to the CIA/FBI

In bits and Pisces US has Pakistan in its grip Josy Joseph Tuesday, October 12, 2004 08:43:03 am TIMESOFINDIA.COM RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates NEW DELHI: There is nothing in history like a hurt and humiliated Super Power. In case you don't have any idea, just look across the border to Pakistan. As its global blitzkrieg against terrorism continue to throw up unexpected results, United States of America has tightened its vice-like grip on its frontline ally, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Timesofindia.com is in possession of documents, detailing the unshakeable grip of a million American tentacles that have an all pervading grip on Pakistan's present and future. The documents reveal how the US has mapped Pakistan's year-wise targets, details of various schemes that would give the global superpower an unhindered influence over General Musharraf's Pakistan. Put together, they read like the British crown's annual plans for one of its colonies from a bygone era. PISCES Performance Indicator Baseline 2001 No indigenous ability to effectively screen individuals entering or departing Pakistan Target 2002 Pakistan installs PISCES automated border control system at five major airports (Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta and Peshawar). Federal Agency designated by the president as spearhead for terrorism investigation Target 2003 Installs of PISCES at all entry and exit points in Pak Target 2004 PISCES fully operational and integrated with National Crisis Management Cell’s intelligence and investigative database Target 2005 Pakistan assumes responsibility for continued operation of PISCES Source: US Mission Performance Plan FY 2004 Investigations reveal that US has a free run over almost every aspect of Pakistan's national life, including sensitive national records and data. The US has Pakistan all wired up in a highly sophisticated network of software systems, with direct access to information including that of every one entering or leaving Pakistan. The Personal Identification Secure Comparison Evaluation System (PISCES), an automated border control system, is being implemented in 20 ports of immigration in Pakistan. According to latest information, all points of entry and exit in Pakistan would have PISCES system by Dec 31, 2004. Believed to have been developed by Virginia-based consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton for CIA before 9/11, PISCES uses biometric details to match facial images, fingerprints and biographical descriptions with the CIA data bank in the US. PISCES at Pakistani ports is believed to be linked to a central server in the US through high-speed network where American officials monitor and analyse details of passengers, matching them with suspects' data. In November 2001, a few months after 9/11 attacks, at the behest of the US government, Karachi International Airport became the first Pakistani port to implement PISCES. PISCES is being installed in over a dozen high risk countries of the world at America's instance. However, in Pakistan's case, Timesofindia.com has detailed American plans showing that PISCES is being linked up to Pakistan's internal national information making the situation much more complex. According to the Mission Performance Plan set by the US embassy in Islamabad, America is presently involved deeply in prodding and forcing Pakistani authorities to develop national intelligence and criminal databases which did not exist till 2001. Surprisingly this database is linked to the PISCES border control system which is in the hands of US officials. In the mission document targets, by 2004 end the PISCES system would be "fully operational and integrated with National Crisis Management Cell's intelligence and investigative database". In 2003, the US embassy was aiming to develop "fully functional intelligence and investigative database" link between provincial Crime Investigation Departments and National Crisis Management cell". And in 2003 itself, the American plan reveals: "intelligence and investigative database linked with other similar programs, including PISCES border control system." Startlingly, only in 2005 will Pakistan assume "responsibility for continued operation of PISCES system." Till then, the US counter-terrorism officials would have control over the sophisticated system that not only records details of every person leaving or entering Pakistan, but would also transmit these details to the central servers of FBI and CIA back in the US. Details of PISCES installation are detailed in the Mission Performance Plan for 2004, prepared about a year after 9/11 in 2002, and in possession of Timesofindia.com . Besides PISCES, thousands of closed circuit television networks are being installed across Pakistan. Over the last two years US policies regarding Pakistan have been unfolding as scripted in the Mission Performance Plan for 2004. Several of the targets detailed in the plan have been met, some chunk of the arms and military wares listed for supply have already been delivered, and funding programmes are already on course. The only area where the US is going slow is in re-imposing democracy, and that is understandable given their over-dependence on General Musharraf. It is not just in the virtual networks that America has Pakistan in its grip, it stretches beyond. Some of it is positive in the long run for Pakistan, like the modern road networks that are going deep into the under-developed Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

India said no to PISCES - security system would be "available live to the US."

India turns down US PISCES from FAIZUL HAQUE NEW DELHI - Fearing compromise on its sovereignty, India has rejected an American offer for installation of its surveillance system PISCES, already operating in Pakistan since 2003. Despite being considered "very effective," it was unacceptable to India as it involved "opening up" Indian security to American agencies like Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, said an Indian newspaper Daily News and Analysis with reference to highly placed sources in country's intelligence and security apparatus. An official told the Indian daily, "we wouldn't install it" because by doing so Indian security system would be "available live to the US." According to the report, the US had approached over 60 countries for installation of the Personal Identification Secure, Comparison and Evaluation System (PISCES) which was proved useful in tracking London bomber's Pakistan trip. Around the world, in over a dozen countries the PISCES system is installed. In many countries like Malta it has created much controversy by giving the US remote control of the system. The newspaper Daily News and Analysis has also claimed that it possesses a secret document of the US Embassy in Islamabad called mission performance plan for financial year 2004. The document has said that the PICSES system was installed in all major entry and exit points particularly Pakistan's five major airports in 2003. Actually, it was to be installed in Pakistan in 2002. According to the document, the newspaper said, the system was to be handed over to the Pakistanis only in 2005. However, the newspaper wonders that how much the US controls the system, especially after it is handed over to security officials. An Indian official told the newspaper that the PISCES "is the most critical" but hidden hand of anti-terror operations of the US in Pakistani soil unleashed after 9/11. He also said, it is "purely the US system" with "live controls" available with US agencies such as CIA and FBI. The PISCES is developed by Virginia based cosultancy Booz Allen Hamilton for the CIA. The consultancy works extensively with the US government. The US State Department describes this system as "a software application, tailored to each country's specific needs." It is critical component of terrorist interdiction programme, launched by the US administration's co-ordinator for counter-terrorism. The Indian daily has said that it was the PISCES that helped confirming the London bomber's visit to Pakistan. "The PISCES system had collected details of the three including their photographs and biometrics," said the newspaper adding that they matched with the details sent by London investigators. - nation.com.pk

so is the following report is a cover up
of what US intelligence REALLY knew

Pak concedes UK bomber visited country July 15, 2005 10:27 IST One of the men who carried out last week's serial bombings in London had visited Pakistan twice and spent a total of four months there, officials said. However, they have so far not been able to pinpoint the movements of the bomber Shehzad Tanweer in the country or say who he met. According to his uncle in Islamabad, Tanweer had been to Pakistan and attended a madrassa or Islamic school. Quoting knowledgeable sources, BBC said Pakistani intelligence and investigation agencies are working flat out to accommodate British demands for leads on any of the three London bombers of Pakistani descent. The sources said Tanweer first visited Pakistan possibly at the end of 2003, then for a longer period later. His entries were tracked by a system called Pisces in which everyone who comes into Pakistan legally, via any port of entry, is photographed. Agencies in Pakistan are still trying to trace Tanweer's movements inside the country. The other two bombers of Pakistani descent had not been picked up on the Pisces system. So if they did enter Pakistan after 2002, when the system was introduced, they did so illegally.The sources said little was known about the bombers in Pakistan, but more may be known about the people they may have been in contact with. That, and efforts to ascertain whether there was a Pakistan-based mastermind, will be the focus of investigations in the coming days and weeks, the report said. - in.rediff.com

'Intelligence on militants travelling to Pak. was not good' London, March 30 (PTI): A cross-party committee of MPs probing last year's London transit bombings has said intelligence gathering on British militants travelling to Pakistan was not as good as it should have been, and questioned why the lead bomber was not fully investigated. The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) blamed British intelligence's lack of resources, rather than any error of judgement, for the failure to prevent the July 7 bombings that killed at least 56 people. Committee members are concerned that intelligence- gathering on British militants travelling to Pakistan was not as good as it should have been, BBC reported. Mohammad Sidique Khan, the lead bomber who killed six people when he blew himself up at Edgware Road Tube station and other members of his cell are thought to have linked up there with extremist radicals, possibly al-Qaeda recruiters. But the committee believes it was only after the London bombings that British investigators got full co- operation from their counterparts in Pakistani intelligence. ISC also has questioned why Khan, who was known to the intelligence services before July, was not fully investigated. The MPs have accepted the official explanation that Khan was suspected of petty fraud not terrorism, so he was not considered a high priority. Whitehall officials have admitted they had eavesdropped on telephone conversations made by Khan but that he was not the focus of their investigation, which was centred on an imminent terrorist plot involving others. They say no intelligence came to light to suggest Khan was plotting an attack. - hindu.com

according to frontline magazine in 2005

Although nothing has come to light about the links of the London suicide bombers with any of the Pakistani militant outfits, it should come as no surprise if any such connections are established. After all, Pakistan and subsequently Afghanistan have been the recruiting ground, until at least 9/11, for holy wars waged in so many parts of the globe since the late 1980s. Investigations till date have proved that three of the four British men identified as the London bombers were in Pakistan this year. Shahzad Tanweer, 22, and Mohamed Sidique Khan, 30, two of the bombers of Pakistani descent, flew to Karachi on November 19, 2004, on a Turkish Airlines flight and remained there until February, according to Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency. Tanweer, an avid sportsman, had apparently told his family he was going to Pakistan to study religion. Investigators are trying to determine whether he and Sidique Khan met in Pakistan with Hasib Hussain, 18, another of the bombers, who was already there. Hussain arrived in Karachi from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on July 15, 2004. It is not known exactly when he left Pakistan, but he appeared to have returned home to Britain about the same time as the other two. Pakistani authorities released photographs of the three that were taken when they arrived at the Karachi airport. The photographs were taken by a U.S.-developed security system installed after 9/11, which photographs all passengers as they present their passports when arriving at or departing from Pakistani airports. Pakistani intelligence agents are reportedly investigating whether Tanweer visited the Manzoor-ul Islam madrassa in Lahore, with links to the banned militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad. The madrassa's leaders have denied that Tanweer attended the school. Adding to the woes of the military, Pakistan's prestigious English monthly Herald ran a cover story days before the London carnage on the revival of terrorist camps in the country. It quoted an unidentified top manager of the training camp in Mansehra, saying that all the major organisations, including the Hizbul Mujahideen, Al-Badr Mujahideen and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, had begun regrouping in April and renovating training facilities that were deserted in 2004. The magazine said that at least 13 major camps in the Mansehra region were revived during the first week of May. These are located in the areas of Pano Dheri, Jallo, Sufaida, Oghi, Khewari, Jabba, Batrasi, Naradoga, Akherilla, Hisari, Boi, Tanglaee and Achherian. The magazine report has baffled political and diplomatic observers in Pakistan. The consensus among observers is that if the report is correct, there is no way the camps could restart operations without the knowledge, if not consent, of the military establishment. A magazine like Herald would not have run the risk of carrying such a sensitive report without checking and cross-checking facts. Did somebody in the establishment give the information to the magazine in the hope of sending a message to India on the urgent need for the resolution of the Kashmir issue? After all, no one had anticipated London and its fallout.

Tanweer from Bradford / Leeds

Shehzad Tanweer (December 15, 1982 - July 7, 2005) was born in St Luke's maternity hospital, Bradford In 1984, the family moved to the Beeston area of Leeds, then to Colwyn Road, Leeds when Tanweer was seven. Known as Kaka (little one) by his family, [3] he attended Wortley High School, where he was described as politically moderate by his friends, who knew him as an outstanding sportsman, excelling at cricket, triple jump, long-distance running, football, and ju-jitsu. He then attended Leeds Metropolitan University, where he studied sports science before leaving for Pakistan in 2004 to attend a course in Islamic studies. At the time of his death, Tanweer is believed to have worked occasionally in his father's fish and chip shop. His family had previously owned a curry takeaway and a butcher's shop, and his father was respected locally as a prominent businessman. Tanweer attended several mosques including Bengali, and Stratford Street mosque in Beeston

according to this Time report Tanweer first visited Pakistan in 2003, Khan in 2004

Khan and Tanweer arrived together in Karachi on Nov. 19, 2004. About a week later, the two boarded an overnight train to Lahore. They then went on to Faisalabad, and thence to Pervaiz's house. According to Pervaiz, Khan used the house as a base, frequently leaving it ostensibly on visits to his own family in Rawalpindi. Tanweer stuck close to home, reading books, chatting to his cousins and other locals. He also prayed five times a day, fasted once a week and often led the Friday prayers at the local mosque. Yet Pervaiz says that neither his religious devotion, his praise for bin Laden nor his support for the attacks on the U.S. of Sept. 11, 2001, hinted at his intentions. Tanweer "embraced life," says his uncle. "He never talked about getting involved himself." Tanweer told his uncle that he had come to Pakistan to learn more about his roots. Some investigators believe that his visits - he made at least two, the first in 2003 - radicalized him. Musharraf dismissed that idea in an address last week, saying "Three [of the bombers] are from Pakistani parentage, [but] they had been born, bred and educated in England." Indisputably, Britain's large Muslim community has proved fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaeda. Since 2001 hundreds of young British Muslims have gone to Pakistan, where they have received training by extremist groups. Activists in Britain keep a watch in mosques and community centers for young men to join the cause. "It's very discreet," a militant in the outlawed group Jaish-e-Muhammad tells Time. "The recruiters are ordinary white-collar people. When the volunteers start working they don't know they're working for al-Qaeda. They just think they're working on behalf of Muslims."

Tanweers Uncle Pervaiz, who told Time Magazine: "He was a shy and simple guy who would never be involved in a heinous crime like a suicide bombing."