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"Al-Qaida agent held over plot
Fiona Hudson, in London"
August 13, 2006 12:00am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "THE foiled plot to blow up passenger flights between Britain and the US was linked yesterday to al-Qaida.
This came with the arrest in Pakistan of Rashid Rauf, 26, a member of the terrorist organisation, over allegations he organised to commit mass murder with liquid chemical bombs hidden in hand luggage on jets.
Pakistani officials revealed British-born Rauf had been seized near the Afghanistan border on Wednesday.
He was arrested outside an internet cafe after Pakistani intelligence agents noticed he was sending and making an unusually high number of emails and phone calls to Britain.
Rauf was understood to have lived in Pakistan since leaving Britain after the 2002 murder of his uncle, Mohammed Saeed, 54.
The stabbing murder was never solved and Rauf was wanted for questioning.
A Pakistani security official said Rauf had been put under surveillance after Britain's Secret Service had told Islamabad he was in Pakistan.
Pakistan described Rauf as a "key person" in the aborted plot.
"He is a British citizen of Pakistani origin. He is an al-Qaida operative with linkages in Afghanistan," Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said.
Mr Sherpao said Rauf's arrest had led to Thursday's raids in Britain that headed off the plot."
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Terror plot: Internet cafes raided
CNN ^ | 8/12/2006 | CNN
Posted on 08/12/2006 4:57:35 PM PDT by tobyhill
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British police confirmed Saturday that they had raided a series of Internet cafes in their investigation into an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic aircraft.
There was no confirmation of any arrests in the raids in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley region, west of the capital.
The raids came as links to suspected terror operatives in Pakistan -- possibly connected to al Qaeda -- were emerging Saturday as key elements of the investigation.
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