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Five suspects learnt bomb skills at al-Qaeda camps |
2006-08-13 |
![]() It was during these visits that the five unnamed men recorded the videos in which they are said to have "boasted" of their atrocities and their desire to become "martyrs". American intelligence has also confirmed that at least two of the suspects held in last Thursday's raids had received explosives training with household chemicals in Karachi and had met al-Qaeda operatives in the buildup to the 7/7 attacks. Details of the extent of the Pakistan connection came as the country's intelligence service, the ISI, revealed that it had arrested Rashid Rauf, a British man, described as being a senior al-Qaeda figure. Rauf, who was arrested in a carefully planned covert operation has been described as the "brains" behind the attack to bring down at least 10 American airliners over the north Atlantic. He is also the brother of Tayib Rauf, 22, one of the 23 suspects, aged 17-35, who are in custody after a series of raids across the country early last Thursday morning. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 camps in Londonistan. |
Posted by: RD 2006-08-13 16:13 |
#1 The suspects are understood to have travelled to Pakistan during the past 24 months and were taken to camps in the border region with Afghanistan Or perhaps the camp right outside Rawalpindi cantonment, HQ of the Pak military. |
Posted by: john 2006-08-13 09:29 |