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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Was bugging carried out for the FBI?
Sean O'Neill
The inquiry into the bugging of a terrorist prisoner and his MP has
been asked to examine whether the eavesdropping was carried out at
the request of the FBI.
The Times has learnt that two weeks after the taped conversation with
Sadiq Khan, MP, in June 2006, Babar Ahmad was visited in Woodhill
jail by Metropolitan Police Special Branch detectives who told him:
"We could help you if you will help us."
Lawyers for Mr Ahmad, 33, who is fighting extradition to the United
States, believe the approach was an attempt to persuade him to
negotiate a plea-bargain deal before a trial in the US on terror charges.
Mr Ahmad was arrested in London in 2004 on a US extradition warrant
over his alleged involvement with websites said to be recruiting for
Taleban and Chechen Mujahidin groups.
Searches of his home and office at Imperial College London, where he
was an IT technician, were carried out by the Metropolitan Police and
material was passed to the US authorities. "Why were they scratching
around when the decision had been made a long time ago that Babar
Ahmad was not going to be prosecuted in Britain?" asked Gareth
Peirce, Mr Ahmad's solicitor. "Were they trying to exploit some
perceived vulnerability in the bugged conversation?"
Ms Peirce said she has written to Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary,
and Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, raising issues she wants the
inquiry into the bugging to look at. She said: "Very serious
questions have to be asked about who this eavesdropping was being
carried out for."
Mark Kearney, a former police intelligence officer at the prison in
Milton Keynes, has claimed he was put under pressure by the Met to
carry out the bugging. Mr Kearney, 48, is being prosecuted for
allegedly leaking unrelated information to a local newspaper
journalist. The former officer wants to give evidence to the inquiry
into the bugging incident but has yet to hear from Sir Christopher
Rose, the Chief Surveillance Commissioner, who is conducting it.
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