Foreign Terrorist in Iraq Had 7/7 London Plans

From the Washington Times:

A terrorist captured near the Syrian border last month had a computer "thumb drive" that contained planning information about the July 7 suicide bombings in London, according to a U.S. military officer.

Col. Robert Brown, commander of the 1st Brigade 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, said that the man was captured north of Qaim in western Iraq and that authorities had connected him to the al Qaeda terrorist network.

It is the first evidence of a link between the London bombs and terrorists in Iraq, but fits with other evidence of a growing presence in Iraq by al Qaeda, which has taken responsibility for the British attacks.
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Col. Brown declined to discuss the specific nature of the information on the thumb drive -- a miniature data storage device that plugs into a computer's USB port -- but said it indicated al Qaeda involvement in the attacks on London's bus and subway system.

"I don't think anyone's done a good enough job explaining" the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, he said.

The gents at PowerLine point out that this is the first piece of evidence that the terrorists have used Iraq as a staging ground for attacks elsewhere.

I suspect that what this could mean is that the attacks in Iraq itself are not getting the results that the terrorists were hoping for and so they decided to try a different tactic. It won't, and hasn't, work on the British.