[SleekMaid]

The Al-Qaeda leader — who cannot be named for legal reasons— acts as a suspected hub in a network of extremist groups. These include Kashmiri and north African groups based in this country. He is linked to a second suspect also in Britain who has “played a major role in facilitating support for the Iraq jihad”.

A third associate is an Iraqi who came to Britain in 2004 and worked on providing support for British extremists who wanted to travel to Iraq to fight the “holy war”.

MI5 said he acquired weapons in preparation for an unspecified attack in Britain. He was detained in January last year pending deportation to Iraq.

The British leader’s suspected links with other Al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan have been the subject of intense MI5 scrutiny since last August. >>>>>>>>>>>> MI5 must've been watching him every moment for the past year. Awesome work.

[Darkwolf377]

MI5 must've been watching him every moment for the past year. Awesome work.

The NYT editorial staff is probably being chewed out by their publisher for not breaking this story six months ago.