U.S. blows UK case early. Not 2006… 2004!
ANYONE REMEMBER NOOR KHAN?

On Sunday, NBC News reported that the Bush administration may have prematurely exposed the British investigation of a terrorist groups’ plan to use explosives to down as many as 10 aircraft headed for the US, for political gain, forcing MI-5 to move before they were ready, possibly allowing the heads of these terrorist plots to get away.

This might be surprising had they not have already done this at least once (and arguably as many as three times) before.

When I heard the US may have forced the UK to move in on the latest airline bomber plot early in order to score some cheap political points because of an election, one name immediately sprang to mind: Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, the MI-5 mole that had infiltrated al Qaeda in 2004 and may have led us to The Big “O” himself, but because the Bush Administration desperately needed to disrupt the momentum of the Democratic National Convention that had just ended two days before, giving Senator Kerry a bump that extended his lead in the polls, they needed something to remind everyone (to quote a line from “V”) “WHY THEY NEED US!”.

Exposing the name of “Valery Plame” was bad enough, but exposing the name of a Pakistani double-agent that had infiltrated al-Qaeda’s inner sanctum…

And of course, they’ve now done it once again, and just as before, no one seems to remember.

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