Phone Records Trouble for Bombing Suspect
Posted on: Thursday, 21 July 2005, 09:00 CDT
Telephone records of a British bombing suspect in Pakistan show he was in contact with four suicide bombers right up to the July 7 London transit attacks.
Haroon Rashid Aswat, 30, is being held and questioned in Islamabad by Pakistani and Scotland Yard detectives. Police said he arrived in England two weeks before the attacks, and flew out just hours before the subway and bus blasts that killed 52 people and the bombers.
Intelligence sources told The Times of London that during his stay, Aswat visited the home towns of all four bombers and selected targets in London.
Aswat has been known to Western intelligence services for more than three years after the FBI accused him of trying to set up al-Qaida training camps in the United States.
He was arrested in an Islamist madrassa, or religious school at Sargodha, 90 miles from Islamabad, by Pakistani intelligence officials and taken to a jail in the capital. He was armed with several guns, wore an explosive belt and was carrying around $30,000 in cash. He was about to flee across the border to Afghanistan, the report said.
Source: United Press International
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