Glen Jevney: Where did the London Bombers come from?

While combing through possible leads to the London bombers, British freelance spy Glen Jenvey,40, found a picture bearing what he thought was a remarkable similarity to one of the wanted men
In an e-mail interview, Glen Jenvey said the individual in the picture pulled from the Hamza tapes was photographed some time after 1998 but before Sept. 11. 2001.
"The tape is of several meetings held by jihadis in London," Jenvey said, "and also shows clips of fighting in Bosnia and Kashmir. Abu Hamza (is also seen in the tape) holding meetings inside Finsbury Park Mosque, and other halls and meeting places."

Glen Jenvey said there was a reason he was focusing on these now old tapes while investigating a new crime.

"Wherever Abu Hamza is, there seems to be links to terror. I have learned this after looking into the preacher over several years that he is one of bin Laden's main men in the UK."

Glen Jenvey said he hopes that even a small possible lead such as this "will help people in the manhunt to stop more attacks."

He added that whether or not the individual in the Hamza movie is indeed the same one being sought by authorities, "What it does show is for many years groups of terrorist have been very open on the London streets and have now turned on the British people, as well as exporting the terror abroad."

Britons are still jittery after the terror attacks. According to media reports ( http://channels.aolsvc.co.uk/news/article.adp?id=20050725021409990002 ), authorities believe the bombers may be preparing to strike again while being sheltered at safe houses in the capital. Law enforcement officials told media there was no indication the bombers had fled Britain after their failed mission.

According to British media ( www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=DB1415305W&news_headline=abu_hamza_to_stand_trial_next_year_for_soliciting_to_murder and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4652693.stm ), Hamza, 46, will stand trial next year for soliciting to murder and stirring up racial hatred.

JENVEY

Glen Jenvey's work was profiled in mid-2003 in England's "Sunday Times" (www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-750685,00.html).

According to the "Sunday Times," Glen Jenvey was so convincing in his role as a radical website operator that Hamza allegedly sent him a number of propagandist al Qa'ida recruitment videos. Jenvey forwarded the videos to a number of law enforcement agencies that included the FBI.

The "Sunday Times" wrote that according to statements given to the anti-terrorist branch in March 2003, Jenvey set up an internet site in 2002 called islamic-news.co.uk. Using the (fictitious) name Pervez Khan he published radical Islamic propaganda and news articles on the site from Kashmiri extremist groups.

Once the site was established, Jenvey told the "Sunday Times" he sent the material to Hamza's now defunct website — supportersofshariah.org. "He (Hamza) was so pleased with this he decided to put a link to my site from his site. That was his first big mistake," Glen Jenvey told the "Sunday Times."

As a result, Jenvey ended up monitoring everyone who logged on to Hamza's website and passing the information he gathered onto the FBI.

However, Glen Jenvey felt he could do even more. He told the "Sunday Times," "By now I was getting close to Hamza. He trusted me ... We had been e-mailing each other a lot and I had been passing the e-mails to the FBI. We also started to speak on the phone. I started to suggest I could help him recruit people for his jihad. He became very excited by this. He would burble prayers down the phone in an almost demented fashion. I thought he must be a bit mad. He said he would send me some material to help me win supporters and prepare them for jihad. He said he had some special tapes, but that they were somewhere secret and he did not keep them in the mosque. He said they would be sent to me."

Less than a month later a package arrived at Glen Jenvey's home containing 20 audio tapes. A second package arrived a week later with six two-hour video tapes.Glen Jenvey told the "Sunday Times" he was shocked by what he saw. One tape began by showing a training camp in Bosnia and scenes of urban combat training. Jihad anthems played in the background and a voice in English commanded, "Make ready to continue to terrorize the enemy of Allah."

The tape then later cut to Hamza speaking to a private audience in London about "so-called" suicide bombers. "It is to inflict suffering, it is in the time, in the methodology of suicide, it is there and at its peak," says Hamza.

In another tape, the "Sunday Times" wrote, three British volunteers were interviewed in Bosnia about their experiences. All three urged Muslims at home to undergo jihad training and criticized those individuals who just sent money or gave moral support.

Another tape, also allegedly provided by Hamza, was an Arabic documentary, made before 9/11, about the building of the World Trade Center in New York and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.

Glen Jenvey told the "Sunday Times" that after receiving the tapes he continued to monitor Hamza's website. In April 2003 he saw a film showing Russian soldiers being blown up by Chechnyan terrorists. The film was available through a link from Hamza's website. It showed training with live ammunition at a camp in Afghanistan and appeared to be a training exercise for potential assassins. Many of the target images were obscured, but former President Bill Clinton, was clearly visible.

Hamza's website was shut down by its internet service provider soon after Jenvey reported his observations to the appropriate authorities.