Accused in Pak attacks may have been MI6 informer

An AL-QAEDA operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was simultaneously working for British intelligence,MI6,according to files on detainees at Guantánamo Bay prison camp,the Guardian reported.

An AL-QAEDA operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was simultaneously working for British intelligence,MI6,according to files on detainees at Guantánamo Bay prison camp,the Guardian reported.

Algerian citizen,Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili,was detained in Pakistan in 2003 and later sent to Guantánamo Bay. But according to Hamlilis Guantánamo file,one of 759 dossiers obtained by the Guardian,US were convinced he was simultaneously acting as an informer for British and Canadian intelligence. The BBC said some of the leaked files show MI6 in a very bad light,but did not elaborate.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks,told interrogators an Abu Adil an alias allegedly used by Hamlili had orchestrated the March 2002 grenade attack on a church in Islamabads diplomatic enclave that killed five people. He said Abu Adil was also responsible for an attack that killed three girls in a rural Punjabi church the following December,and that he had given him about 3,540 to fund the attacks. Separately,US intelligence reports said that Hamlili was possibly involved in a bombing outside Karachis Sheraton hotel in May 2002 that killed 11 French submarine engineers.

After his capture,Hamlili underwent custodial interviews with CIA personnel. According to the Guardian,the CIA found he withheld important information from the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service and British Secret Intelligence Service and to be a threat to US personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

But the intelligence against the Algerian,who was sent home last January,appears deeply flawed. US officials waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times during his first month of captivity. And little evidence is presented to link Hamlili to the Karachi hotel bombing.

According to the Guardian report,Hamlili told interrogators,that he had been running a carpet business from Peshawar following the 9/11 attacks. But the CIA knew the Algerian had been an informant for MI6 for over three years and suspected he had been double-crossing handlers. According to US intelligence the two spy agencies recruited Hamlili as a humint human intelligence source in December 2000 because of his connections to members of various al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Under the Taliban Hamlili worked as a translator and later for intelligence services. Last January Hamlili were transferred to Algerian government custody.