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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: PartyTime who started this subject8/10/2004 3:45:24 PM
From: Karen Lawrence   of 173976
 
Bush WH leaks continue this time blowing cover of al qaeda operative...more treasonous activity from the WH:
Bush Team on Defensive Over al-Qaeda Leak

Jim Lobe
ipsnews.net

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (IPS) - One of the greatest coups in Washington's nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group's operational masterminds had yet to be fully exploited.

The source, 25-year-old computer wizard Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, had been co-operating with Pakistani police and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since he was quietly detained in Lahore on Jul. 12, until the 'New York Times' published his name last Tuesday after receiving a ''background'' briefing by the White House.

The Bush administration, which had elevated the terror-warning level in three U.S. states on the basis of information acquired from Khan, set up the briefing to dispel public scepticism about the terrorism threat, particularly after it was disclosed that much of the information on which it was based was several years old.

British and Pakistani intelligence agencies were reportedly furious with the leak, which forced U.K. police to hurriedly round up 13 al-Qaeda suspects who are alleged to have been in email communication with Khan. Five others who were sought by MI5 reportedly escaped capture, and there is some question that the British had gathered enough evidence to persuade a judge to keep the 13 detainees in custody, according to published reports.
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