Briton 'had Gulf battle plans and links to US navy mole'

[emad]

From The Telegraph
By David Rennie in Washington and David Millward
(Filed: 07/08/2004)

SNIP:
A Briton who appeared in court in London yesterday on extradition charges allegedly was in possession of US navy battle plans and had contacts with an apparent Islamist spy within the service.

American authorities claim that Babar Ahmad, 30, ran a terrorist fundraising and recruiting agency on the internet, much of it on behalf of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Ahmad, who appeared at Bow Street magistrate's court, was told his extradition was being sought by the Americans on two counts of using websites to solicit donations in the US to fund terrorism in Chechnya and Afghanistan. On the same dates - between 1998 and Feb 19 2001 and from then until the end of 2003 - he was also accused of agreeing to solicit donations in America to fund terrorism.

Authorities in Connecticut yesterday unsealed a 31-page indictment against Ahmad. Federal prosecutors said the investigation had spread to include his possible ties to an Islamist traitor serving aboard a US vessel.
SNIPEND
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/07/nterr07.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/07/ixnewstop.html

Precis: UK cops raided Ahmad's home last December and found computer disk containing classified descriptions of Straits of Hormuz battle group planned movements, with advice how to attack the ships.

[seemslikeadream]

1. emad - Ex-Air Force Sgt. On Trial For Life

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13, 2003
Courtroom sketch of Brian Patrick Regan, who's accused of trying to sell U.S. military satellite secrets. (Photo: AP)

No U.S. citizen has been executed in an espionage case since June 1953, when Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of revealing nuclear bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.

(AP) A former Air Force sergeant, charged in the first U.S. espionage trial in nearly 50 years that could end in a death sentence, calmly introduced himself Monday to prospective jurors.

"Good morning, I'm Brian Regan," he told nearly 100 candidates for the federal jury that will decide whether he is guilty of offering to sell military satellite secrets to Iraq, Libya and China for more than $13 million in Swiss currency.

Prospective jurors were instructed to fill out an 18-page survey asking their views on crime, the looming Iraqi conflict and the death penalty. One page carried the statement, in bold print, "This case has nothing to do with the events of September 11, 2001," and asked jury candidates whether they knew anyone killed or injured in those terrorist attacks.

The judge pledged to keep answers to the survey under seal. It asked members of the jury pool, for example, whether their beliefs about the death penalty have changed and whether those views are affected by religious, moral, ethical or philosophical beliefs.
more
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/27/national/main538079.shtml

I just ran across this never heard of it before, have you?

[merh]

2. Have you found anything else about this?

I have never heard or read about this either. :shrug:

[emad]

3. I remember the story but it seemed to fizzle out without any real

news. Maybe that was the Feds' ploy because the UK bust last December appears to be the result of many months surveillance although no press reports as yet linking Regan to Ahmed.

Other UK reports today on TV/radio said Babar Ahmed used to be a post-graduate computer science student based at London University's Imperial College.

That is significant for all those interested in the farce that is Blair/Mandelson's Good Friday Peace Agreement whereby over 100 IRA/IRA-prototype terrorists were let off the hook, including one who for the last 20 years has been a Senior Lecturer in computer science in Imperial University and has many known Islamic associates.

His birth name is Edward Creasey and he has a police record for child rape and torture going back to events centred around a mass gang rape of UK children living near the US Airforce Base at Dawes Hill, High Wycombe, Bucks in 1967. Son of an American GI and local English woman, Creasey was jailed for 14 years for the brutal sex attack; later given early parole in return for testifying about the role his GI dad played in a covert child sex ring centred on the US military with links to Pentagon officials and Hollywood divas like David Niven, Laurence Olivier and Ronald Reagan.

I don't have any internet links to this but the story used to be available in The Times microfiche records archives in London.

When Creasey turned states evidence to name the rest of the ring operating from US Air bases (including USAF Naphill, Bucks) in the UK during 1960s and 70s he was given immunity from prosecution by MI5 and a new ID in return for information that led to the jailing of over a dozen UK paedophiles and the breaking up of a sex ring in the UK Civil Service with IRA connections. He then wormed his way into a job with the UK Ministry of Defence for a number of years as a computer expert, eventually getting the sack when his bosses realised his adolescent predelections for child molestation had not gone away.

The latest plea-bargain he managed to get away with ensured him a post at Imperial College, London, under an assumed name.

His on and off wife is a London social worker who has personal links to the Humberside police chief, David Westwood, suspended last month for erasing social workers' reports (under the pretext of Data Protection Act regulations) into the sex attack background of UK child killer Ian Huntley, jailed last December for murdering 10year old Holly and Jessica in August 2004 in Soham, Cambridgeshire. I have known the Creaseys both for over 20 years and always heed the stench that surrounds their murky lives.

Don't know if the above joining up of the dots is relevant but I mention it because Creasey also has known personal links to John Hilberry, the UK-based general manager of BCCI whose testimony is in the plaintiffs' dossier of evidence to be heard in the UK class action currently before the courts. As I recall, Creasey lost some $250,000 in a Florida account with BCCI when the Feds closed it down and from personal knowledge of him, I know him to be connected to UK siblings of Al-Qaeda arrestee Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

[emad]

4. Regan indictment:

http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/regan_indict.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/02/doj021402.html



Regan Gets Life for Secrets to Iraq

A retired Air Force master sergeant was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for offering to sell U.S. intelligence secrets to Iraq's Saddam Hussein and the Chinese government. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee approved the sentence, which was brokered by Brian Patrick Regan's lawyers and prosecutors. As part of the agreement, the government promised not to prosecute Regan's wife, Anette, and allowed her to keep a portion of Regan's military pension. Regan also agreed to tell the government about any classified information he may have given to other people or countries, and to submit to lie-detector tests. His wife also agreed to cooperate......( AP, 20 Mar 03)

Quotes:

"Brian Regan fully appreciated the consequences of his betrayal. Brian Regan's price was $13 million -- for that he would betray his colleagues, his community, his country."

--Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Haynes


"This is not a case of espionage or attempted espionage. This may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity."

-- Defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro

"Brian Regan wants you to believe that he intended no harm. This was not a scam ladies and gentlemen. If this was just a scam, Brian Regan wouldn't have asked for $13 million."

--Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Haynes



"There's no doubt that your attempted espionage put our nation's intelligence-gathering at risk. You have joined the list of infamous spies."

--U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee

From:
http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Regan_1.htm




from:http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Regan_1.htm

Looks a bit like your pic of Jonathan Keith IDEMA!!!!

[IndianaGreen]

5. The only terrorism in Chechnya is the one Putin is committing

Ahmad, who appeared at Bow Street magistrate's court, was told his extradition was being sought by the Americans on two counts of using websites to solicit donations in the US to fund terrorism in Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Ever since Putin became Amerika's pal, we have turned deaf ears to his war crimes and use of chemical weapons in his desperate attempt to put down the Chechen's fight for independence, a fight that began when the USSR was still in existence.

Nowadays, Putin is "our" boy in Moscow and the Chechens are mere dirt that ought to submit to the Russian jackboot.

I won't play that game. The only terrorism in Chechnya is the one Putin is committing, the only terrorists are the Russians.

Chechnya should be free and independent from Moscow. Long live the Chechen rebellion!

[emad]

8. Plenty of freelancers willing to jump into the Putin boat!

Also plenty of mercenaries about in the world today looking for a quick fix of their bank accounts in the hot spots (viz Jonathan Keith Idema, Brent Bennett, Edward Caraballo in the Afghani bust two weeks ago; Simon Mann et al busted in Zimbabwe for Equitorial Guines proposed coup, etc etc)

[emad]

6. From The Times:

Briton 'had plans to attack US warship'
By Daniel McGrory, Adam Fresco and Richard Ford


SNIP
A BRITISH computer expert working at Imperial College, London, has been accused of having detailed plans at home for attacking a US warship.

Counter-terror agents are investigating claims that he is related to a man alleged to be an al-Qaeda communications chief who was arrested in Pakistan after he was found with plans for an attack on Heathrow. Two men linked to the alleged Heathrow plot are now feared to have fled Britain.

Lawyers trying to extradite the British suspect, Babar Ahmad, 30, to America on terror charges said last night that he faces life imprisonment for using computer websites to incite attacks in Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Mr Ahmad, who appeared at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court yesterday, is also said to have arranged for money to be funnelled to the Taleban and other militant groups linked to Osama bin Laden.

From:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1204101,00.html

BBC story yesterday:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=732523&mesg_id=732523

[emad]

7. See also Snazzy's:

Pakistani in terror sting named (blows UK sting)


(mods--think this is a much dif. take on this than existing stories and is important for that reason)

Pakistani in terror sting named
Fri 6 August, 2004 15:38

By Peter Graff

LONDON (Reuters) - A Pakistani computer expert linked to U.S. security alerts and the arrest of 12 terrorism suspects in Britain was part of an undercover sting operation before Washington revealed his name, according to The Times.

The report raised suggestions that U.S. officials, determined to present a public justification for security alerts that caused widespread disruption in New York and other cities, may have jeopardised the British police swoop.

Police sources acknowledged that they were forced to mount the raids in which they arrested the 12 more hastily than planned, but denied a report that five suspects had escaped.

U.S. officials revealed the name of Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan in anonymous briefings with journalists to justify the "orange alert" that led to some of the most disruptive anti-terrorism tactics since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

....

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=... §ion=news


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x732538