Did the jihadis have a snitch in Brussels?
A Belgian newspaper reports that Belgian intelligence developed a high-ranking al-Qaeda source as an informant and used the information to foil a terrorist attack in London. The attack intended to follow up on the 7/7/05 London transit system attack, but instead British security agents made a series of raids and arrests that uncovered the plot and the materials. The man believed to be their source was arrested in Morocco last month, leading an AQ unit: A suspected Islamist leader may have helped foil an attack in Britain just after the 2005 London train bombings by tipping off Belgium’s intelligence service, a newspaper reported Saturday. Belgium’s domestic intelligence gave British authorities “very precise” information that enabled them to foil the attack, planned for some time after the July 7, 2005 bombings, La Libre Belgique said. Abdelkader Belliraj, a Belgian and Moroccan national, was arrested last month in Morocco on suspicion of having led an Al Qaeda-linked group. But he is
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