[Terrorism] DEBKAfile - London Terror Inquiry Heads Secretly to the African Sahara

DEBKAfile - London Terror Inquiry Heads Secretly to the African Sahara:

"Last Friday, July 14, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 214 (Al Qaeda?s Zone 9: The Blue-faced Men of the Sahara) revealed that a top-secret gathering took place Wednesday, July 13, in one of the most out-of-the-way towns in the world, Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania. It was attended by linchpins of the services responsible for the war on al Qaeda, the American Central Intelligence Agency, the British domestic and foreign secret services, MI5 and MI6, and the security chiefs of Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

Last week too, a senior British official who specializes in intelligence and terrorism Kim Howells was dispatched to Morocco.

Add these moves to the earlier DEBKAfile finding that the explosives came from Serbia and it is clear that the real investigation is focused on West Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East - not Pakistan and Egypt.

The Nouakchott meeting was indeed called by British anti-terrorist services after their experts concluded that the team of terrorists that blew up three Tube trains and a bus in London on July 7 received their orders, explosives and operating funds from al Qaeda's West Africa arm.

Very little is known about this remote wing of the Islamist group known as the West African Jam'a functions from deep inside the Sahara Desert under the command of Mukhtav bin Mukhtar, known also as the Blind One because he is one-eyed.

Al Qaeda refers to this area of operations as Zone 9 and it is one of the most remote, bizarre and hazardous of all its sectors."

Marc Says: Very interesting. Debkafile has strong connections to the Israeli intel community, and frequently comes out with information long before the Western media does, particulary when the Western press is being used for disinformation purposes. (Conversely, Debkafile also comes out with information that later turns out to be wrong.) Debkafile has been saying all along that the explosives used in the UK bombings came from Serbia, and in this article traces the path they took to reach the UK.