Attention Being Diverted Away From Pakistan for the London Bombings Thread

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Man being quizzed for lead to London blasts



By Ismail Khan

PESHAWAR, July 8: Investigators are questioning here a British national with known links to Al Qaeda and militants in the UK who they suspect may provide lead to Thursday’s London blasts, sources said. Zeeshan Siddique, who was picked up by a security agency from near Peshawar in May, had initially identified himself as Shehzad from Madina Colony, Hyderabad. The identity turned out to be fake.

In subsequent interrogation, he said he was a British national and that he was suspected of involvement in a failed plot to bomb pubs, restaurants and rail stations in London.

Mr Siddique, 25, from Heston Hounslow, Theville, London, has revealed little as, according to investigators, he works himself into a fit to avoid interrogation but what he did say prompted the security agency to dig deeper into his past, an official investigating the case told Dawn.

Investigators are focusing on a note in which Mr Siddique states that one of his comrades was unwilling to proceed further while another had informed him that ‘wagon’ had now been called off.


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http://www.dawn.com/2005/07/09/top5.htm

[TahitiNut]

1. Pakistan is rounding up the usual suspects. Kabuki.

:shrug:

[norml]

2. 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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http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=5579