Pak interrogating suspect for links with London carnage

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Pak interrogating suspect for links with London carnage

Peshawar: Pakistani authorities are interrogating a British national, Zeeshan Siddique, suspected of having links with al Qaeda and militants in the UK, for his possible role in Thursday’s serial bomb blasts in London. Security agencies had picked up the man from near Peshawar in May.

Though Sidddique’s links with some of the militants belonging with Al Muhajiroun, a radical Muslim group in the UK, have been established, his association with the group as such has not been proved. However, the interrogators have recovered several phone numbers from his possession allegedly linking him to al Qaeda operatives, and feel he may be the missing link in the plot.

The interrogators have also recovered from him a CD containing programmes regarding circuit works, aeronautical mapping and digital simulation. He has reportedly disclosed to the interrogators, that he was a suspect in a failed plot to bomb pubs, restaurants and rail stations in London.

According to The Dawn , they are now focusing on a note in which Siddique states that one of his comrades had informed him that ‘wagon’ had now been called off. According to the paper, the reference to ‘wagon’ has prompted security officials to take a fresh look at the whole case with particular reference to the bombings in London’s underground tubes.


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1. London bombers may have been educated British Asians indoctrinated in Paki

Posted on 08 July, 2005

London bombers may have been educated British Asians indoctrinated in Pakistan: Report

London: The terrorists who carried out yesterday’s serial bomb blasts in London, may have been from a gang of young and well-educated British Asians, who went to Islamic schools in Pakistan, after graduating from Britain.

But, not enough evidence had been collected to arrest them, though in order to establish their links with al Qaeda, intelligence agencies have in the past, monitored phone calls between them and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, The Sun reported.

Said to be in their 20s, these Muslim extremists are graduates who completed their college education in the UK and then went to Islamic schools in Pakistan near the Afghan border, the paper quoted a US security source as saying. The Pak-Afghan border is full of Pashtun tribals, and has over the past few years earned the notoriety of being the den of hard core terrorists believing in Osama’s ideology.

Security men feel that the terrorists were 18-20 in number. Professor Michael Clarke of King’s College London was quoted as saying that planting a string of bombs “would require a cell of at least 18 to 20 people”.


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