IT expert: I worked with 7/7 bombers and warned police

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,,1804936,00.html

lots of gems like this one, and he plays them like trump cards, when he needs to.

because consider the volume of material generated by xenophobic and busybody neighbors against all Muslims in the west. I'm sure it was put into a pile to be looked at later and forgotten.

It's tragic, but understandable.

It really should be a crime to make false accusations to police because one doesn't like a neighbor's color, dress, cuisine or religion. I'm sure the cops would agree.

have this much documentation behind them. This was a VERY specific tip with names, addresses and spcific allegations, along with video, not just some nut calling up saying he thinks his Sikh neighbor is Osama bin-Laden.

being fully investigated. After all, what would you rather do as an overworked and underpaid detective, check out some old lady who noticed a funny smell coming from the Sikhs next door, or plow through a pile of paperwork and stack of CDs?

Unfortunately, this is what understaffing does.

Are there any LIHOP/MIHOP concerns over the bombings? Did this further fuel the "reasoning" behind staying in Iraq for the British people overall or create a justification for the govt to stay the course there?

I am sure there is corruption there just as here. Blair and *, for whatever reason, have shared their brains on this war.

Just wondering what our cousins across the water think of this.

Seem to suggest that 95% of all the LIHOP/MIHOP concerns come from the US, not from people in the UK. The idea that less than 10 people out of 60 million in the UK became radicalized enough by events in the Middle East that they became bombers isn't really that shocking. The UK government certainly didn't get anything out of the bombings, unlike the * administration with 9/11. There wasn't any rise in the support for the war, most people realized that the war had almost certainly led to the bombings despite what Blair said at the time.

There's certainly a ton of resentment among Muslims in the UK, but then something like 90% of the UK population are against the Iraq war. Most people in the UK know that it's the war in Iraq that's causing real problems but the main problems appear to be coming from the far right-wing trying to stir up trouble.

I don't see the type of corruption in the UK government that would lead to a LIHOP/MIHOP situation. Certainly there are those in the government who appear to like brown paper envelopes stuffed with cash but that's far from allowing/causing bombings in the centre of London.

As to this story, I'm not sure what to think about it. I cannot make my mind up about whether the man making the claims is simply making the story up or whether the police just displayed unbelievable incompetence. Why has he waited nearly a year to come forward with the story? Why have none of the others in the story who also had concerns about the bombers come forward now or earlier? Why have none of the police he contacted ever even mentioned this before now?

publicity. Does he have a book coming out? Ooops. Sorry, that an American marketing ploy.

the leads provided by the IT expert, because they knew about it already -- perhaps they also had an informer or double agent on the inside, who screwed up.

strap bombs to themselves and then get on a subway and detonate them.

the levees in new orleans would fail

They were taking security measures with the Israeli visitors, for example. They knew something was up.

maybe the same people told them!
what idiocy.

Known supplanter of the Marxian-Arab conspiracy against Jews worldwide.

sounds like anti-semetic BS, so let's see what you got.

I'm beginning to get sick of this Israeli persecution complex.

um, yeah. every other time stuff like that has been alleged, it's had anti-semetic roots.
i am not pro-isreal but, i'm sick of that bs.
and so i ask for your source. again.

There was one anonymous, unverified report that the Israeli embassy was given a warning minutes prior to the bombings.



That single report was refuted by Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.



There is a single, unknown source for the story who has never come forward again with more information, nor has anyone else come forward to confirm the story.

It's a really good story to use to beat the anti-Israel drums though, and that's enough for some.

I think you have a persecution complex with Israel. I think the government officials of any friendly government would've been warned of terror attacks.

I like Israel about as much as the next European, which is to say, not a lot.

Stories about how Israel knew this or that crop up all the time, they often try to involve Israel in world conspiracies where Mossad somehow control the world. The stories are inherently anti-Israeli. Why is it always the Israeli government or embassy that gets a warning? It's never the Argentinians or South Africans

At best the stories are laughable bullsh*t, at worst their attachment to real world events makes people viewing the stories think that everything involved in the story is some crazy conspiracy theory. Not everything in the world is the result of a zionist plot.

I found it credible.

Why was the original story credible but the retraction un-credible?