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The Pakistan connection
The Sunday Times, Britain ^ | 17 July | Christina Lamb

Posted on 07/18/2005 3:14:57 AM PDT by ttsmi

He pointed out that all six of the most senior Al-Qaeda leaders captured so far were living in Pakistan. Richard Reid, the failed shoe-bomber, had spent time there as had Saajid Badat, the second would-be shoe-bomber who was arrested in Gloucestershire. Pakistan was the base for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born LSE student sentenced to death for beheading Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter. Now it seems that the Leeds suicide bombers were probably trained and perhaps masterminded from Pakistan.

“This cannot be just coincidence,” said Gohel. “What it shows is that in spite of General Musharraf’s stated policy of supporting the war on terror, Pakistan still seems to be the epicentre for global jihad.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: madrassas; pakistan

1 posted on 07/18/2005 3:14:57 AM PDT by ttsmi
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To: ttsmi

Hah! More Indian propaganda buggering up the lives of innocent Pakis who have contributed so much to GWOT.

/Sarcasm


2 posted on 07/18/2005 5:48:24 AM PDT by Gengis Khan (Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until u hear them speak.)
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