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BRITON NAMED AS BOMB PLANNER; MET WITH BIN LADEN
The Drudge Report ^ | July 20, 2005

Posted on 07/20/2005 5:44:56 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Edited on 07/21/2005 10:51:45 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Terror investigators hunting the London bombing mastermind are to question a suspected Al Qaeda planner held in Pakistan.

British-born Haroon Rashid Aswad(Aswat) was seized at a religious school with a suicide bomb belt, explosives and GBP 13,000 in cash.

Security sources in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, claim he had up to 20 telephone conversations with London bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer. One of these is believed to have been just hours before the blasts.

The UK's DAILY MAIL reports on Thursday: Security sources say he trained at an Afghan camp which was visited by Osama Bin Laden and that he is linked to two of Bin Laden's planners and an Al Qaeda suspect held in America.

U.S. investigators have been told that Aswad attended the Khalden camp in Afghanistan, favoured by foreign terror trainees. British shoe bomber Richard Reid is among those who attended the camp and it has been reported that London bomber Khan also went there.

Developing...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alqaedapakistan; asshat; asswad; aswad; aswat; captured; elvisbinladen; haroonrashidaswat; islam; londonattacked; londonbombings; mosquewatch; muslim; osama; terrorism; uk
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1 posted on 07/20/2005 5:44:57 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; Dog; Travis McGee; Squantos; rdb3; wardaddy; Dog Gone

Nice catch.

2 posted on 07/20/2005 5:46:12 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Someone tell me why we aren't getting Osama! I am really wondering what the deal is. Don't tell me we can't find that piece of trash.
3 posted on 07/20/2005 5:49:29 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Have any of these families suddenly been flush with cash?


4 posted on 07/20/2005 5:49:41 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Be a Good Mullah Now ...)
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To: Southack

When did he meet with OBL?


5 posted on 07/20/2005 5:49:52 PM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: ladyinred

How about Mullah Omar? How hard is it to find a one-eyed mullah?


6 posted on 07/20/2005 5:50:40 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Be a Good Mullah Now ...)
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To: Southack
I've been a big backer of Musharraf since Bush gave him his come to Jesus conversation after 9/11. And I understand his population is hardly pro-western.

But these islamic schools are the problem. Our problem and his problem.

When this kind of incident happens, Musharraf needs to bulldoze the school. You can't pussyfoot around the source of the problem.

7 posted on 07/20/2005 5:51:11 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Haroon Rashid Aswad was seized at a religious school with a suicide bomb belt, explosives...

Ah, yes, the well-dressed young Muslim's back-to-school wardrobe this year.

8 posted on 07/20/2005 5:51:22 PM PDT by livius
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To: ladyinred

To make a long story short...OBL is in the northern area of Pakistan...being protected by member of the ISI. If we go get him....Pakistan blows up...and the jihadists seize power....we are screwed.


9 posted on 07/20/2005 5:51:56 PM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: Dog Gone

Do not trust Musharraf.


10 posted on 07/20/2005 5:52:47 PM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Rashid Aswad

I didn't meet too many blokes named "Rashid" in the pubs when I was over there ...

11 posted on 07/20/2005 5:53:06 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: BunnySlippers
How about Mullah Omar? How hard is it to find a one-eyed mullah?

Well, but he does ride a motorcycle...so it's harder to catch him. Although they caught the Steve McQueen character in that WW2 prisoner of war movie on a motorcycle.

12 posted on 07/20/2005 5:54:55 PM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: Dog
To make a long story short...OBL is in the northern area of Pakistan...being protected by member of the ISI. If we go get him....Pakistan blows up...and the jihadists seize power....we are screwed.

That's the general consensus, however I still think he is in Iran.

13 posted on 07/20/2005 5:55:35 PM PDT by demsux
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To: Dog

I'm not sure I trust him, but our biggest catches have come in that country with his assistance. Compare that to how many we've caught in Iran.


14 posted on 07/20/2005 5:55:47 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Coop; nuconvert; AdmSmith; Cap Huff
Haroon Rashid Aswad

That name ring a bell with any of you?

15 posted on 07/20/2005 5:55:52 PM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
I didn't meet too many blokes named "Rashid" in the pubs when I was over there ...

Do you mean in England? When I was there last October, I ran into plenty of Muslims. The first guy who tried to pick me up was a "Mohammed." So was the second.
16 posted on 07/20/2005 5:55:52 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
British-born Haroon Rashid Aswad was seized at a religious school with a suicide bomb belt, explosives and GBP 13,000 in cash.

Pretty typical for a religious school in Pakistan.

17 posted on 07/20/2005 5:57:50 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: ladyinred

It too 7 years to find Eric Rudolph in Asheville N.C.


18 posted on 07/20/2005 5:59:24 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers

Good point eddie.


19 posted on 07/20/2005 6:00:09 PM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Time to "Nick Berg" his ass, no questions asked.


20 posted on 07/20/2005 6:01:39 PM PDT by JarheadFromFlorida
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