Dick Cheney 'put airline bomb plot case in jeopardy with arrest order of Rashid Rauf'

Source: Times (London)

By Jenny Booth
Sept. 8, 2009

Dick Cheney, the former US Vice President, nearly destroyed Britain's efforts to bring the airline bomb plotters to justice, police and intelligence experts said today.

By ordering the early arrest of Rashid Rauf, the bombers' link man in Pakistan, Washington forced British police to detain the suspects in the UK before all the evidence had been gathered, it was claimed.

Yesterday three British Muslims - Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain and Assad Sarwar - were finally convicted of plotting to blow up seven transatlantic airliners in mid-air in a co-ordinated attack intended to surpass the horror of 9/11. But the plotters were arrested before they had bought the airline tickets that would have been the ultimate proof of their intentions. Police fear that several key figures of the plot have remained free.

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"We were forced to take action, to arrest a number of suspects, which normally would have required days of planning and briefing... Two of the ringleaders were picked up as they met to discuss plans, and throughout the night and the following morning officers were bursting through doors in East London and High Wycombe.

"The arrest hampered our evidence-gathering and placed us in Britain under intolerable pressure."


Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6825778.ece

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Everything they touched turned to ash.

When will they go after him?

Tom Ridge wasn't kidding.

From Empty Wheel:

We'll never know, but there's a decent likelihood British officials could have convicted all the suspects had Bush and Cheney not prematurely trumped up these plans into a terror scare right before the 2006 elections. As Ron Suskind described, Bush and Cheney pushed the Pakistanis to break this, in spite of demands from the UK that the investigators allow their work to continue to fruition.

He appears to me to be wrong on every single issue, and nasty and evil to boot, an unrepentant war criminal whose paranoid delusions continue to endanger the nation.

Is there anything good about this awful, demonic creature? I guess he's not opposed to gay marriage, but for the wrong reason, does that count? Is there anything else?

Anyone?

"Dark side" is right.

Rolling Stone pegged Sneer, Big Time: The veep's career has been marred by one disaster after another

Here's a particularly heartbreaking example:

Know your BFEE: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ford Covered Up CIA Murder of American Scientist

And the sad thing is, he's still alive because of government health care.

torturing captives and invading third parties?

Are American warmongers exceptionally better than other warmongers?



Caught in the Crossfire

Know your BFEE: Money Trumps Peace. Always.

in this world run by sociopaths and psychopaths, and all their enablers.

The Rise of the Fourth Reich. One World Government. Using corporations to facilitate and distract.

that merely asked for further investigation into 9/11.

I think, at the very least from the point of view of incompetence, this should have been done. I mean, Arabs with box cutters attacked the Pentagon--put a big hole in it--and the Pentagon didn't even fight back. What's with that? Not an AF jet in the sky over our nation's capitol?

THAT ALONE should have gotten Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld impeached. But instead Cheney gets to hold little Bushie's hand in a PRIVATE unofficial "hearing" at which no note taking is even permitted, let alone recordings, and at which only "select" members of a very "select" committee are permitted to be present.

I mean, jeez. So, anyway, they go after this guy for signing this petition, when anybody in his or her right mind would NATURALLY question ANYTHING that Dick Cheney ever had the remotest connection to. The guy is a walking disaster for everything and everyone around him, or that he even remotely touches.

And you gotta wonder, too, why everybody's so touchy about 9/11. I mean, why shouldn't there be MANY investigations of it, on-going investigations, investigations from every angle, investigations in the Senate, in the House, in the White House, at the DoJ, the FBI, the Pentagon, the CIA, and by every state and city government in the USA, given the security implications of such an attack. Can Los Angeles count on NORAD? Can Chicago? Can Miami? If the Pentagon can't defend, um, the Pentagon, what can it defend? And if it can't defend our shores, why are we spending so much money on "defense," that we can't afford to pay teachers' salaries or to fix roads?

Good questions, needing thorough investigation. Yet our political establishment is SO TOUCHY on 9/11 that neither party can abide an otherwise brilliant public servant who signed a petition saying "Please investigate it further."

Odd, huh? He's the patriot, and the rest of them are...what? At best, malfeasant. And very, very, VERY touchy.