MI5 launches court bid to quash torture claims made by Britain’s top al-Qaeda terror master

MI5 chiefs have launched a court bid to quash torture claims made by Britain’s top al-Qaeda terror master — and halt his legal aid gravy train.

Rangzieb Ahmed, 44 — once Osama Bin Laden’s No1 UK henchman — has leeched £800,000 in aid claiming he was physically abused in custody.

He got life in 2008 for plotting carnage across the UK — and was linked to the 7/7 bombers who killed 52 in London in 2005.

Ahmed had been captured in Pakistan — and alleges that MI5 was complicit in his torture by that country’s security agents, whom he says pulled out some of his fingernails.

He has engineered costly reviews of his case by appealing to the European Court of Human Rights after his pleas were rejected by UK courts — and is pressing on with more.

Now the Government is to apply to have the Rochdale-born fanatic’s claims dismissed on the basis there is no case to answer.

The Sun has learned MI5 will present new evidence at the High Court in October proving it had nothing to do with the torture.

Ahmed became eligible for release in January. His solicitor Raju Bhatt said of the UK’s move: “We will be resisting this.” MI5 declined to comment.

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