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...three converts are part of a group of mostly British-born Muslims of Pakistani or Kashmiri origin. The details divulged by the Bank were sparse, of course, leaving the British media racing to fill out the picture. Neighbors told the Guardian how Stewart-Whyte, who lived with his widowed mother, changed after converting to Islam a year ago. "He grew a long beard and had shaved his head," said one. "The people he was hanging around with were different. Now he's with people who are religious. He doesn't speak to anyone around here since his conversion." Other neighbors...
...Pacific. That plot too targeted a dozen or so airliners and aimed to use a liquid explosive, a nitroglycerine-based concoction that was to have been smuggled on to the aircraft in hand baggage. The plot, codenamed Bojinka - a play on the Serbo-Croatian word for explosion - by its Pakistani planners, came frighteningly close to fruition. In December of 1994, according to U.S. court documents, Ramzi Yousef and Wali Khan Amin Shah, were instrumental in the bombing of a Philippine airlines flight en route to Japan that was a dry run for their much more ambitious attempt to blow...
...going operational, and authorities were pressed into action. MI5 and Scotland Yard agents tracked the plotters from the ground, while a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group's communications. Most of the suspects are second- or third-generation British citizens of Pakistani descent whose families hailed from war-torn Kashmir. U.S. officials believe the 29 members were divided into multiple cells and planned to break into small groups to board the nine planes...
...have connections to Pakistan - one senior Pakistan official told TIME that nine men have been arrested in Pakistan over the past few days in connection to the plot. And French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in a press conference today that the "team of terrorists appears to be of Pakistani origin." But other reports indicate that the suspects were British-born with some ties to Pakistan. Either way, only a year after the July 7 bombings, Britons are once again reminded that al-Qaeda-inspired extremists could be living right next door...
Five years after 9/11, a group of jihadists - all reportedly British-born Muslims of Pakistani or Kashmiri descent, with connections to operatives in Pakistan and an as-yet undetermined relationship with al-Qaeda - appears to have tried again. And though the plot was foiled apparently thanks to good police work and intelligence-gathering, it nonetheless reignited fears that Osama Bin Laden's brand of mass terror is an ever present threat...