Haroon Rashid Aswatin pidätyksen Sambiassa mahdollisti kolmen maan tiedustelupalvelujen yhteistyö. Kiva, että pääsivät edes nyt sopuun, kun aikaisemmin eivät toistensa vinkkejä ottaneet tosissaan.
'The charges were based on what prosecutors have said was Mr. Aswat's role in an attempt to set up a terror training camp in Oregon in 1999. But British authorities, during the discussions with United States and South African officials, were unimpressed with the American case, one of the officials said.
Meanwhile, South African authorities "were watching this guy and as it turned out," another one of the officials said, "somewhere along the line they lost him.'
While Mr. Aswat has been questioned by investigators in Zambia, his statements have not shed any light on whether he played a role in the London attacks, one of the officials said. Mr. Aswat's arrest was first reported in The Los Angeles Times.
The discussions between American, South African and British officials centered on the United States' desire to take custody of Mr. Aswat, in a process known as rendition, several officials said. But British authorities, citing Mr. Aswat's British citizenship, were reluctant to approve the plan.
"The discussion was whether or not they would render him," the official said. "He's got U.K. papers and they said you can't render somebody with U.K. papers."
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