Britain - The Aswat Cover Up

Is Britain trying to cover up Aswat's involvement in the Muslim terrorist attacks on London?

Sky News reports on extradition hearings for Aswat.

Why is Britain so eager to see Aswat extradited to the US? In America Aswat faces charges of trying to set up an al Qaeda training camp which if convicted on he would go to jail for a number of years. But if convicted of murder in Britain over the 7/7 terror attacks on London he would face life in prison.

We were initially told Aswat was the mastermind behind the Muslim terror attacks on London.

Aswat, whose associations with al-Qaeda date back ten years, is believed to have entered Briton about two weeks before July 7 on a ferry into Felixstowe, and to have flown out from Heathrow hours before the four suicide bombers killed 52 rush-hour commuters on three Tube trains and a bus.

Investigators have sought him since discovering that he made up to 20 calls from his mobile phone to two of the bombers. Intelligence sources told The Times that during his stay in Britain Aswat visited the home towns of all four bombers as well as selecting targets in London.

Now it seems Britain can't wait to see the back of him. Why?

There are some clues.

First of all, Britain's security services let Aswat slip in and out of Britain with relative ease, despite being wanted for years by America. In fact, Britain's security service "balked at permitting U.S. authorities to arrest Haroon Rashid Aswat..."

They were similarly embarrassed by the ease with which Muslim terrorist, Hussain, one of the 7/7 terrorists, was able to boldly leave Britain for France on a train, immediately after the attacks on London.

Then there are those 20 phone calls Aswat made to the London terrorists. Surely those are worth investigating? Not in Britain. The evidence obtained is inadmissible in British courts, unlike in America where intercepted phone calls are admissible as evidence.

And who intercepted those calls? If it was America's NSA, that would further embarrass British security services for failing to keep tabs on wanted terrorists. If it was Britain, she would be in the awkward position of having to admit that she listened to British citizens phone calls - Aswat is a British citizen.

Faced with having to admit British security services failed to arrest Aswat before the London attacks, failed to detect his entry and exit of Britain and unable to use intercepted phone calls in court and face the prospect of having to admit they listened to British citizens phone calls, it appears Britain has decided to drop this hot potato fast.

If Aswat is the mastermind, how could Britain prosecute him? They can't use the phone intercepts and the bombers themselves are dead. They didn't arrest him when America asked them to and the ease with which Aswat slipped in and out of Britain suggest they didn't have much information on him to begin with.

By extradicting Aswat, this still leaves British security forces red faced and unable to answer the most important question. If Aswat is not the mastermind of the 7/7 Muslim terrorists attacks on London, who is?
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