Britain: Al Qaeda Fifth Column in BBC

The following is take from EuropeNews


In a front-page article last week, London’s Daily Telegraph claimed that several Guantanamo extremists were found to have a direct-line phone number to the bbc and that the U.S. government itself suspected the bbc of being a "possible propaganda media network” for al Qaeda.

According to the files, American forces uncovered many "extremist links” to this same bbc number, which suggested that terrorists were in contact with sympathetic bbc employees who had information on "acm [anti-coalition militia] operations.”

An April 21, 2007, detainee assessment states:

The London, United Kingdom, phone number … was discovered in numerous seized phone books and phones associated with extremist-linked individuals. The number is associated with the British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc).

The released documents, written by senior U.S. military chiefs at Guantanamo, also state that terrorists from all over the Middle East and Africa had flocked to London, that Britain had ignored repeated warnings to stop granting them asylum and that London had thus become a "haven” for extremists. They reveal that the United States was not at all surprised at the 2005 tube bombings which killed 52.

These revelations are enabling people in Britain to understand exactly why the French secret services have nicknamed Britain’s capital "The Pakistan of the West” and "Londonistan.”

The revelations also brought out that Britain furnished more members of al Qaeda who ended up as part of Guantanamo’s prisoner population than any other nation. No fewer than 35 of those prisoners had been radicalized by Islamic preachers in Britain.

http://europenews.dk/en/node/42932