UK 'ignored spy's al-Qaeda fear' Hamza was spied on by Nasiri UK intelligence services were warned of the threat posed by al-Qaeda in the mid 1990s but did not act quickly enough, says a spy who infiltrated the network.The agent told the BBC he warned his handlers that al-Qaeda was better organised than was previously thought. Known by the pseudonym of Omar Nasiri, he worked for intelligence in the UK and France, and trained in Afghanistan. Mr Nasiri also claimed a senior al-Qaeda operative planted evidence to provoke the US into war against Iraq. Ibn Sheikh Al-Libi fabricated links...