Press Association
Thursday November 16, 2006 10:38 PM
A senior al Qaida operative deliberately planted evidence to encourage the United States into war against Iraq, it has been claimed.
The extraordinary allegation is made by a man who reportedly spent seven years inside the al Qaida terror network working as a spy for European intelligence agencies.
Omar Nasiri - not his real name - makes the claim, which is bound to re-ignite the controversy over the war, in an interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme.
He alleges that a senior al Qaida operative, Ibn Sheikh Al-Libi, deliberately planted information to get America to fight Iraq.
Al-Libi was captured by US forces in late 2001, handed over to the Egyptians and allegedly tortured, according to Newsnight.
more...Next they'll claim Al-Libi wrote Bush's SOTU speech.