Sources

For possible future reference, this is the Times (UK) story being widely cited in the US as the source for the claim that Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was the planner of the 7/7 bombings, and even claims a link to last year's Heathrow liquid bomb plot. Yet no mention is made of these claims in the BBC story, which also hints that it had some off-the-record briefing behind it. Nor indeed in the Pentagon's news release. So who , if anyone, is briefing the Times, and why? One fishy section --

But the Security Service, which has previously sent officials to question detainees at Guantanamo Bay, may not have the opportunity to question him directly.

The Government’s recently adopted position in favour of closing Guantanamo Bay is likely to act as a bar on agents travelling there. British Intelligence would have to rely on relaying questions it would like asked by American interrogators.


Sounds like someone has an axe to grind re opposition to Gitmo.