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This piece from The Scotsman is absolutely astounding: Bomber was given House of Commons tour by a Labour MP.

ONE of the London suicide bombers was allowed to tour the Houses of Parliament as the guest of an MP months after police and intelligence services became aware of his links to another alleged bomb plot, it emerged last night.

Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, was a guest of the Labour MP Jon Trickett in July 2004, four months after he had been identified by intelligence officials as a “criminal associate” of one of the subjects of a major counter-terrorism operation that had resulted in several arrests.

The extraordinary visit emerged as an Egyptian biochemist who may be linked to the bombers was arrested in Cairo, where he was due to be questioned by Scotland Yard detectives.

The astonishing revelation about the killer’s Commons visit throws into question previous assertions that none of the bombers was known to police in connection with terrorist allegations and comes amid growing concerns about how the bombers were allowed to strike.

Now, let’s think about this for a second. It is reasonable to assume that a “subject of a major counter-terrorism operation that resulted in several arrests” is at least a suspected terrorist. It is also reasonable to assume that a “criminal associate” of such a person is also a suspected terrorist.

Therefore, one can conclude that this MP let a known suspected terrorist walk around in the British House of Commons!

Maybe now that 54 British citizens are dead at the hands of this man, this MP and his fellow travellers will take threats a little more seriously now.

UPDATE [10:55]: At least the MPs didn’t invite him to a party, as Reuters journalists invited the head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades to theirs.

[inherited from: Dhimmi Watch.]