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Although locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had shown proclivities for radical Islam. Khan is said to have traveled regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the BBC. After Hussain got into some fights at his racially divided school, he went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping the teen would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times...
...where they caught a train to King's Cross. They were reportedly seen with a fifth man, still wanted by police. Authorities seized two rental cars left in the parking lot at Luton. One had been hired in Leeds by Shahzad Tanweer, 22, who transported Hussain and Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, to Luton. The other was rented by Germaine Lindsay, a Jamaican convert to Islam who lived in the nearby town of Aylesbury with his English-born wife. Explosive materials in one vehicle were washed out with high-pressure hoses before police took the cars away. In Leeds, police evacuated...
...young men had been. Tanweer, nicknamed Kaki, was a sports-science student who excelled at the long jump, wore flashy Western clothes and liked to drive a red Mercedes. Outside the King Kebab, one of his friends told Time he saw Kaki playing soccer the night before the blast. Khan, a well-liked adviser to children with learning disabilities, had rebelled against his family by rejecting an arranged marriage in favor of a woman he had met at university. His mother-in-law campaigned for the rights of Islamic women and had earned an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden...
...funded research institute in Cairo where el-Nashar worked, told Time that el-Nashar's research was in biochemistry enzymology and pharmaceuticals and not related to building bombs or explosives. The bombers' trail may also lead to Pakistan. A Pakistani official says British investigators want to reinterrogate Naeem Noor Khan, 25, a Pakistani arrested in Karachi last year who admitted being a top al-Qaeda communications man. His confession and computer archives led to charges of conspiracy to commit murder and other terrorism offenses being lodged against eight men in Britain last August. Khan's former boss, Abu Faraj...
After returning from exile last April, Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto, 33, basked in the welcoming cheers of millions of her fellow Pakistanis. Buoyed by her reception, she demanded that the government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo call new legislative elections this year. The alternative, she warned, would be an uprising by her followers and the overthrow of the government...