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Mohammed Junaid Babar

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194:, he was released on bail in 2008. On 10 December 2010 his sentence was set to "time served". The reason given for his release was that he had agreed to cooperate fully with any investigation or prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office. According to the judge who set his sentence "Mr. Babar began cooperating even before his arrest." His early release raised suspicions among lawyers that Babar may have been an informant for the US government before his arrest in April 2004. This decision was widely criticized in Britain. In return for being a government 182:, in Ottawa, Canada. Khawaja was accused of being involved with several terrorist plots, including the London nightclub incident. In light of Babar's attendance, security at the national capital courthouse was extremely tight, with bomb sniffing dogs, and metal detectors outside the building's premises. 169:
He also told a British court during 17 days of testimony in 2007 that he ran training camps in Pakistan for Islamic militants and nurtured a generation of homegrown British terrorists. Babar is still working with the British under a deal that he will not be charged as long as he cooperates.
147:. He has been flown to London to give evidence in the case, and arrived at court amid heavy security, driven from a police station in an armoured convoy with a helicopter overhead. He had been given immunity from prosecution in relation to the charges the British defendants faced. 165:
The prosecution claimed that Babar was part of the plot and had "an insight as an insider into the events and plans, which an outsider could not have." The counsel for the defence called Babar "a liar, nothing more than a conceited fantasist."
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He initially faced up to 70 years in prison. However, after spending four years and eight months in prison, over a year of which in a high security section of
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in 2002 and admitted that he would be facing the death penalty in Pakistan if he was not working for the FBI. He also said that he had associated with
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who, after pleading guilty to terrorist related offences in New York, testified in March 2006 against a group of men accused of plotting
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Babar was the star witness in the case against seven terrorist suspects arrested in Britain in March 2004 as part of
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During his testimony he claimed to have been part of two separate attempts to kill
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Court transcript: United States of America v. Mohammed Junaid Babar, page 12
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his sentence was drastically reduced to time served and he was released.
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Babar was born in Pakistan. In 1977 Mohammed Babar moved to the
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In 2008 Mohammed Babar testified in a trial against the accused
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when he was employed in a number of unskilled jobs including
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with his family when he was two years old and grew up in
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Pakistani American
21 July 2005 London bombings
supergrass
United States
Queens, New York
Long Island
pharmacy
St. John's University
New York City
Sunni
Islam
Gulf War
valet
al-Muhajiroun
World Trade Center
terrorist attacks on September 11th
night vision goggles
al-Qaeda
South Waziristan
terrorist training camp
Mohammad Sidique Khan
New York City
Pakistan
Northern Alliance
Operation Crevice
General Pervez Musharraf
Abu Hamza al-Masri
Omar Bakri Mohammed
Momin Khawaja
MCC New York

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