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...Tablighi Jamaat (the name roughly means "missionary group"). Did they know Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer--who took part in July 2005's London subway bombings and are believed to have been regulars at a Tablighi Jamaat mosque? Were they acquainted with Richard Reid, the jailed, failed shoe bomber, who frequented a Tablighi Jamaat mosque too? Pakistani intelligence officials aren't done with Rauf but expect eventually to hand him over to Britain. "He can be extradited," says an official, "once we get the maximum out of him." One can imagine that will not be a pleasant process...
...Iraq, Paton, as an Army intelligence officer, will decide which roads are safe for troops to take and which could be a trap. The possibility that an improvised explosive device, a suicide bomber or an AK-47-wielding insurgent could kill him doesn't deter him. "There is fear. I wouldn't be human if I didn't think about that," he says. "Everyone thinks I'm just making this up, but my biggest fear and what keeps me up late at night is thinking that I screwed up and cost someone else their life...
...latest suspects, if they are proved guilty, will join a growing list of British extremist converts: Currently serving a life sentence for trying to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001 is "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who is believed to have converted to Islam while in a young offenders' prison during the mid-1990s. And one of the July 7 London bombers, Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, reportedly changed his name to Jamal when he converted and was married to a white woman, also a convert, with whom he had a young...
...believe is a good plan, notes Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside al-Qaeda. "They think in the long term, over decades," Gunaratna says. "They will keep trying the same plan until they get it right, as was the case with the World Trade Center." From "Richard Reid the shoe bomber to the arrest by Philippine police last year of Islamic extremists in Manila who had manufactured explosives they managed to get into toothpaste tubes, the pattern is there," concurs Abuza. "They will keep trying. And we don't know the chemical composition of this latest attempt, but if they have...
...More recently, British shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to detonate his device with TATP as the initiator while aboard a Dec. 22, 2001, American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami. A mixture of TATP and ammonium nitrate was used in suicide bombs in Casablanca, Moroco on May 16, 2003. And the FBI-DHS report notes that four of the suicide bombers in the London subway attack July 7, 2005 "used peroxide-based explosive devices (IEDs), concealed inside rucksacks." With such a rich history, liquid explosives are sure to challenge America's counter-terror defenses for many years to come...