UK bomber met Islamabad church bomber in '03-source

[maddezmom]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - One of the London suicide bombers met in 2003 with a man later arrested for a church bombing in Pakistan, an intelligence official said on Friday.

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During the first visit, the source said, Tanweer met Osama Nazir, who was arrested last December for the 2002 bombing of a church in Islamabad that killed two Americans among others.

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Nazir was a member of Jaish, and security agents called in Jaish supremo Maulana Azhar Masood on Thursday for questioning.

"So far all leads are heading toward Jaish-e-Mohammad," an intelligence official said.

British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, now under sentence of death for the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, was also believed to be a member of Jaish.

Another intelligence official said Tanweer, 22, had made a second visit to Pakistan in late

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050715/wl_nm/security_britain_pakistan_dc_3

[allemand]

1. Obviously just an ordinary lad with no interest in religious extremism...

:sarcasm:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

2. Channel 4 news just reported

that 4 people have been arrested in Pakistan

[allemand]

4. Pakistan detains 4 suspects in London bombs probe

ISLAMABAD, July 15 (Reuters) Pakistani security forces investigating connections with last week's suicide bombings in London detained four suspects in the central city of Faisalabad today.

An intelligence official in Pakistan earlier revealed one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, met two years ago in Faisalabad with a member of a militant group linked to al Qaeda, now in custody for bombing a church in Islamabad in 2002.

''The security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation,'' a Faisalabad police official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?newscode=111445&catcode=ENG4&subcatcode=

[allemand]

3. Pakistan Finds Links to London Bomber

Pakistani Authorities Say One London Bomber Spent Time at al-Qaida-Linked School in Pakistan
By PAUL HAVEN Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Jul 15, 2005 — One London suicide bomber spent several days at a religious school in Pakistan run by an al-Qaida-linked terror group, and met with the mastermind of a church attack that killed two Americans, senior intelligence officials said Friday.

The jailed mastermind told authorities he and 22-year-old Shahzad Tanweer met last year, although it was unclear what they discussed, said the two officials, who work at separate intelligence agencies. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the secretive nature of their jobs. (...)

One of the intelligence officials told the AP said that Tanweer is believed to have spent four or five days at a radical religious school run by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Sunni Muslim group banned by Musharraf for alleged links to an attack on India's Parliament.

The intelligence official would not say when Tanweer visited the school, but disputed reports that he studied there. Such a brief visit could indicate Tanweer went to the school to meet someone or to get instructions.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=942733&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[fedsron2us]

6. When did Pakistani intelligence find out about the meeting

and was this information passed onto their UK counterparts ? The British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, has denied that his security services had any reason to suspect the individuals involved in the attack had links to Islamic militants even though the French interior minister Mr Sarkozy said at least one of the bombers names had been picked up in an earlier security operation. Someone is not telling the whole truth here.

[northzax]

5. hmm, are we sure it was in Pakistan

not Prague with M. Atta and Saddam Hussein?