Yes, boys and girls, it’s “broad strata” time again. Some of the “British-born Asian” terror suspects have been named (hat tip: Allah, who has many more golden nuggets):

Umir Hussain, 24, London E14
Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17
Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17
Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17
Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe
Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17
Cossor Ali, 24, London E17
Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham
Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17
Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17
Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington
Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17
Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe
Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10
Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe
Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe
Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17
Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5
Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest

The Daily Telegraph notes that their bank accounts have been frozen by the Bank of England. Time mag reports “a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group’s communications.” Money was reportedly wired for the plot from Karachi to London, which leads Allah to ask the right questions:

Were some of the suspects pinched by following a money trail? Was the SWIFT program involved? And if so, does this prove that we were right about terrorists not having known of the program’s existence, or does it vindicate the Times’s decision to publish the story given the fact that the jihadis here weren’t tipped off by it?

Ace is on a similar wavelength:

Now that this plot has been exposed, and now that SWIFT will no longer yield much useful information thanks to the NYT– now the federal investigation into the NYT and its treasonous leakers may begin.

Sooner than you might think, Ace.

Jonathan Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy notes a new ruling that the federal government may prosecute private citizens who illegally receive and retransmit classified information (hat tip- Instapundit). The case has to do with two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), who are being prosecuted under the Espionage Act for obtaining classified information and communicating it to third parties, including members of the media. (I’ve blogged the story numerous times - start here and here.)

Bottom line of Adler’s legal analysis: “Under Judge Ellis’ interpretation, it also seems the federal government could prosecute reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times for their reports on secret prisons, NSA surveillance, and other classified counter-terrror activities.”

Patterico makes it clear in case you missed it:

This is huge.…

…In particular, newspapers might be prosecuted for disclosing the Swift counterterror operation, where the First Amendment argument is weak (because the public interest in disclosure was low, due to the program’s legality and strong safeguards) and the government’s interest in maintaining secrecy was high (due to the program’s effectiveness).

Swiftly then, swiftly.

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