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More on Rashid Rauf, plotter
Government officials declined Saturday to comment about him, but have identified Rashid Rauf, a British Muslim who was captured about a week ago from the eastern district of Bhawalpur, as a key person’ in the British aircraft plot, and alleged he has ties with al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

Rauf, whose brother Tayib Rauf was arrested in Britain, was presented before a judge in Pakistan on Saturday who allowed authorities to hold him for questioning, an Interior Ministry official told The Associated Press.

The official declined to say when and where the hearing took place, or whether the suspect would face trial in Pakistan or be extradited to Britain.
Or dropped out of an airplane halfway in route.
An informer working for Britain’s security agency in Pakistan provided the tip that helped Pakistan arrest Rauf, the official said. The arrest of Rauf prompted an associate of his to make a telephone call from Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi to Britain urging plotters to go ahead with attacks. The call was intercepted and triggered arrests in Britain on Thursday when the alleged plot was exposed, a security official said.
Telephone intercepts work, do they?
This telephone call intercept in Karachi and the arrest of Rashid Rauf helped a lot to foil the terror plan,’ the security official said, requesting anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to media.

A US official earlier disclosed, on condition of anonymity, that after the first arrests in Pakistan, word went from Pakistan to the London plotters to move ahead quickly. The message was intercepted by an intelligence agency and prompted British police to move in on the conspirators, long under watch, he said.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-13
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