WTF? Bushco Forced EARLY ARREST of Ring over BRITISH OBJECTIONS!

[Dems Will Win]

Rashid Rauf, Ringleader

A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

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The British official said the Americans also argued over the timing of the arrest of suspected ringleader Rashid Rauf in Pakistan, warning that if he was not taken into custody immediately, the U.S. would "render" him or pressure the Pakistani government to arrest him.

British security was concerned that Rauf be taken into custody "in circumstances where there was due process," according to the official, so that he could be tried in British courts. Ultimately, this official says, Rauf was arrested over the objections of the British.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/

OK this is really suspicious and must be played up in the blogosphere Echo Chamber ASAP. The ring had bought no tickets and some had no passports--AND SOME MEMBERS GOT AWAY AS A RESULT OF THE EARLY BUST. Rashid Rauf is now in Pakistan, under the control of the corrupt ISI. So there will never be an actual court investigation of him.


Ghailani Arrest Announced Hours Before Kerry Acceptance Speech

The early arrest is a copy of the arrest of Ghailani just before John Kerry's acceptance speech at the DNC in 2004. That one was predicted by The New Republic:

Editor's Note: This afternoon, Pakistan's interior minister, Faisal Saleh Hayyat, announced that Pakistani forces had captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian Al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The timing of this announcement should be of particular interest to readers of The New Republic. Earlier this month, John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman, and Massoud Ansari broke the story of how the Bush administration was pressuring Pakistani officials to apprehend high-value targets (HVTs) in time for the November elections--and in particular, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. Although the capture took place in central Pakistan "a few days back," the announcement came just hours before John Kerry will give his acceptance speech in Boston.

From comments by Augustus on Washington Monthly:

Another problem this administration has is one of appearance based on past behavior. To crowd out news coverage of FBI agent Cathleen Crowley's damning testimony FBI and administration incompetence and recalcitrance, the Bush administration chose to announce the arrest of Jose Padillo. As the arrest happened a month earlier, the timing of the announcement was clearly chosen. Then the Bush administration rushed a televised presidential address a full month prior to its original scheduling.

And you get other smaller things like this: Kerry announces Edwards as his running mate on the 7th of July, the next day the Bush administration announces al Qaida is 'moving ahead with plans to carry out a major attack in the United States to disrupt the November elections' (something which sounds like it could cripple our nation, but curiously left the national threat level at Code Yellow -- or elevated).

"Given the fact that the administration chose not to raise the threat level and provided no information to substantiate the severity of their claim, one cannot help but question whether their aim was to deflect attention from the Kerry-Edwards ticket during their inaugural week," said Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_07/004416.php

Here apparently is the Ringleader's personal Web site:
http://www.rashidrauf.com/

The alleged ring in England had never even experimented with mixing the liquids to test the bomb!

Let's sum up. Bushco deliberately forced the early arrest of Rauf and thus the ring in order to take maximum POLITICAL advantage, not caring for security in the slightest, as several "bombers" got away and Rauf is now beyond the legal grasp of the British courts.

Remember to recommend to get the word out!

[Dems Will Win]

1. Has anyone seen Rauf's photo on TV yet?

I must have missed it.

[librechik]

2. I predicted this days ago

they've done this before, and blown an arrest because of it. They care about nothing but the next election, which they must win dishonestly or wind up in jail.

[Dems Will Win]

3. Turns out the Brits are now worried they may not be able

to prosecute.

NO EVIDENCE! No tickets, no passports for some, no mixing of liquids--and meanwhile all the relatives and friends I've seen on the news are in total shock and saying their boys would NEVER do anything like that. There is going to be no case.

And Rauf is going to stay in Pakistan under forced pressure from Bushco, meaning he could very well be an working for the ISI and this whole thing is a phony setup.

Don't know, but after just a few days this smells to high heaven already.

[City Lights]

4. K&R.

I finally figured out what "K&R" means. :dunce:

[lala_rawraw]

5. Yep, just what I said a few days back n/t

[Jazzgirl]

6. An excellent article Lala.

I read it and you sure did say it. I remember when the announcement hit I went "sniff sniff, sniff......yep...smells like shit to me". :evilgrin:

[lala_rawraw]

7. ?

[Mugsy]

8. Excuse me... Doesn't ANYONE remember NOOR KHAN???

After just reading the DU front page story (and #5 in the Top 10) that the US may have forced the UK to move in on the latest airline bomber plot early because the US was about to expose their efforts in order to score some cheap political points because of an election, one name immediately sprang to mind: Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, the MI5 mole that had infiltrated al Qaeda in 2004 and may have led us to The Big "O" himself, but because the Bush Administration desperately needed to disrupt the momentum of the Democratic National Convention that had just ended two days before, giving Senator Kerry a bump that extended his lead in the polls, they needed something to remind everyone (to quote a line from "V") "WHY THEY NEED US!".

Exposing the name of "Valery Plame" was bad enough, but exposing the name of a Pakistani double-agent that had infiltrated al-Qaeda's inner sanctum...

And of course, they've now done it once again, and just as before, no one seems to remember.