Mati-ur Rehman mastermind of UK terror plan
Mati-ur Rehman is being named as the probable mastermind behind the British passenger jet bomb plot. He is known 'as al-Qaeda's planning director, a shadowy figure known as the Keeper of the Directory of Jihad, a log book containing the names of recruits who attended al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s.'
A major Pakistani newspaper reported two weeks ago that Mati-ur Rehman was arrested in remote South Waziristan, a lawless part of Pakistan close to Afghanistan, largely beyond the control of central government. ...
Inquiries by the ABC in Pakistan suggest that in June the authorities arrested the leader of the terrorist group that abducted and beheaded the American journalist Daniel Pearl.
It's understood that after the man named Usman Kurd was picked up by police in the teeming southern port city of Karachi, he confessed to the activities of his co-conspirators now under arrest in Britain.
Neither man, Usman Kurd or Mati-ur Rehman, is a household name, but in the days to come they may become more publicly identified with the so called 'terror spectacular' that's just been foiled in Britain.
In New Delhi, this is Peter Lloyd reporting for Saturday AM.
Another source says that Rashid Rauf was the 'operational planner'.
One arrested there[Pakistan], a Briton named Rashid Rauf, appears to have been the operational planner and is believed to have connections to al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Pakistani and U.S. officials said.
British and Pakistani authorities have arrested as many as 41 people in the two countries in connection with the alleged suicidal plan ... source
British police have questioned 24 people, have since released one of the suspects and have issued detention orders on 22 suspects. That leaves one person unaccounted for. Could this 24th person be the undercover agent? Could the Brits be leaving him in jail with the other 22 in order to obtain more information? Could be ...
A U.S. intelligence official said they planned to deploy a couple of attackers per plane headed for cities in the United Stateds, ... New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.
The people involved had money, cash, 'One of the houses raided by British police this week had been bought last month by two men in an all-cash deal, in a neighborhood of $300,000 houses, neighbors reported.'
One of the terror suspects is the 'head' of Islamic society at a London University. Via Fox NewsCross posted at Freedom's Zone, Hyscience, In the Bullpen
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