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| London boomer called Pakistan up to 3 days prior to the bombing |
| 2005-09-11 |
| One of the four London suicide bombers made numerous calls to a stolen mobile phone in Pakistan up to three days before the July 7 attacks. Pakistani officials say they have traced the stolen phone after receiving requests from Britain's MI5 to investigate. They suspect that it was used by terrorists linked to the bombers, and then discarded after the London attacks. The phone number was rung several times - as late as July 4 - by Shehzad Tanweer, one of the bombers who visited Pakistan more than six months ago along with Mohammad Sidique Khan, the cells's suspected ringleader. The disclosure has deepened suspicions that a "mastermind" based abroad was guiding the gang. Pakistan is considered vital to the investigation into the London attacks, which killed 56 people. Last weekend The Sunday Telegraph disclosed that MI5 officers suspect that the video message of Sidique Khan was recorded in Pakistan, possibly with the assistance of al-Qaeda. Security officers also suspect that Khan and Tanweer may have received advice on bomb making at a training camp in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Pakistani intelligence officers have discovered that the mobile phone's sim card microchip originally came from a phone used in Sukkur, in Sindh province, which is renowned as a militant city. It was originally owned by a tailor, but fell into criminals' hands. It has not been used since the London attacks. It emerged on Friday that seven terrorist suspects wanted over possible involvement with the London bombings are facing extradition from Pakistan to Britain under a new agreement. One is thought to have met one or more of the suicide bombers. Whitehall officials refused to confirm details of the MI5 request to Pakistan for "operational reasons", but conceded that mobile phone calls, including some made abroad, were now central to the investigation. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Khan and Tanweer may have received advice on bomb making at a training camp in Pakistan or Afghanistan Why this muddying of the water? Training camps in Afghanistan? With Afghan and American troops actively hunting jihadis? The camps are in Pakistan and Perv won't shut them down. Won't rather than can't. Unless you believe that a country with a modern airforce, a half million man army and hundreds of thousands of paramilitary police cannot control its own territory. |
| Posted by: john 2005-09-11 09:00 |
| #1 1-800-72virgins |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-11 00:26 |