Police in Britain are hunting for two men who have been trained as suicide bombers by Al Qaeda, the Sunday Times newspaper reports. It says the two men used to worship at the same London mosque as Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber" who was convicted in the United States in January for trying to blow up a plane over the Atlantic. The Sunday Times reports sketches of the men have been circulated in the headquarters of MI5, the British domestic intelligence service. It says the sketches were made by an American artist on the basis of descriptions given by detainees held at the US military camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The paper reports some of the detainees told authorities the two men are prepared to carry out suicide missions. It quotes a senior British Home Office source as saying if the two men were still committed to Al Qaeda "they could be ticking timebombs". Britain has long feared it might be targeted by the Al Qaeda militant network due to its unflinching support of the United States in its self-proclaimed "war on terror".
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