London, Sept.25 ANI: A
court in
Britain has been told that a junior al Qaeda associate was recruited to carry a "terrorist contacts book" that contained
information of the terror network's leaders in invisible
ink.Rangzieb Ahmed, 33, flew
home in December 2005 after an alleged terrorist operation in Dubai and
Saudi Arabia was aborted when something went wrong. A second
man, Habib Ahmed, 28, unrelated to Rangzieb Ahmed, was ordered to carry three
books or diaries belonging to him that contained
information on how al-Qaeda operatives could contact each other secretly, the Manchester Crown
Court was told. According to The Times, some of the material, described as "considerably important to a terrorist", was written in invisible
ink. Other passages related to communicating with other members and
phone numbers of important al-Qaeda figures. The jury was told that Rangzieb Ahmed was tracked using covert
surveillance. Listening devices had been hidden in a
hotel room in Dubai and in
cars used by the two
men on their return to Manchester. Ahmed, of Manchester, denies a charge of directing
terrorism. It is the first time that the charge, brought under the
Terrorism Act 2000, has been employed in a British
court. Also in the
dock are Habib Ahmed, a
taxi driver, and his wife, Mehreen Haji, 27, who also live in Manchester with their two
children. ANI