Special Relationship?

Report: U.S. & UK Disagreed Over Plan to Disrupt Terror Plot

Meanwhile NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects of the alleged plot. A senior British official said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The British official suggested the attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. Some did not even have passports.

According to NBC, American officials threatened to “render” suspected ringleader Rashid Rauf if the British didn’t arrest him immediately.

What qualifies describing U.S.- UK’s intelligence relationship as an excellent one? Because the British were warned their investigation would be scuttled by the kidnap of Rauf, unlike the Italians, whose investigation of Egyptian cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, or Abu Omar, was ruined when the CIA kidnapped him off the streets of Milan?

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