Saturday, August 19, 2006

7 British Terror Suspects Also Pakistani Citizens / Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug 2006

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Paul Watson and Mubashir Zaidi
"Alleged airline bomb plotters met often with militants in Pakistan. Officials investigating the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners say at least seven of the suspects arrested had dual citizenship and made frequent trips here in the last three years, gaining information on how to make detonators and explosives. Pakistan still has a large pool of fighters who know how to use explosives and small arms in insurgent attacks. Pakistani authorities refer to some of the most dangerous as ATBs, short for "Afghan-trained boys," and say they number at least 3,000. The senior Pakistani government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to a reporter, said investigators believed that money for the alleged airliner plot came from sources in South Africa."