DAR AL HARB - U.K.: BRITAIN'S AL-QUEDA NETWORK

Revealed: deadly links of UK's Islamic terror network
by Shiv Malik and David Leppard

A former Islamic militant has disclosed for the first time the extent of the Al-Qaeda terror network in Britain.

Hassan Butt, who was stabbed in the street recently after publicly denouncing fundamentalist violence, revealed that more than 100 jihadis held an Al-Qaeda summit in London four years ago to coordinate their British activities into a single force.

Among those present was Mohammed Junaid Babar, a US citizen who later became a supergrass after being arrested by the FBI. His evidence was crucial to the conviction last week of the Islamist “Crevice gang”, who had plotted to set off bombs in London and Kent.

After the summit, said Butt, he drove to Batley in West Yorkshire with Babar who directed him to the home of Mohammad Sidique Khan, who later led the bombers who hit London on July 7, 2005. Butt said he got the impression that Babar knew Khan well.

This disclosure of the supergrass’s close link to Khan will increase pressure on MI5 to explain why the bomber was not arrested and the 7/7 outrage prevented.

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