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| The jihadist who needed no brainwashing to blow up Aldgate train |
| 2005-09-10 |
| To his friends he was known simply by his Urdu nickname "Khaka". In the two months since detonating a bomb that killed six people on the London Underground, Shahzad Tanweer has been portrayed as the naive victim of brainwashing by a svengali, his fellow bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan. But The Independent has uncovered a different picture of Tanweer, one in which the Aldgate bomber is a highly focussed, motivated and independent jihadist, who spent time - without Khan - at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan run by a group linked to the kidnap and murder of an American journalist. He also helped lead a gang in the Beeston district of Leeds that introduced radical Islam to Asian youths and engaged in battles with whites. The training camp Tanweer visited in Pakistan was run by Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen (the "Movement for Holy Warriors"), a group that had been involved in the kidnap and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and which trains fighters operating alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. One of Tanweer's former associates said the bomber had received lessons in handling arms and explosives at the camp in Mansehra, a remote area near the Kashmir border, in December and January. This is corroborated by sources in Pakistan, one of whom claims that he had two stints at the camp. Tanweer is known to have visited Pakistan between last November and February with Khan. But Pakistani sources who place Tanweer at Mansehra cannot recall him being accompanied by Khan or any other British Muslim. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 So much for the ROP "He was a good boy." crap the press was pushing right after thay were identified. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-09-10 18:05 |
| #1 his Urdu nickname "Khaka" Fitting. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-10 09:58 |