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Rauf trained terrorists to carry out terror attacks: Report
Top al-Qaeda commander Rashid Rauf,the terrorist linked to the trans-Atlantic airline bomb plant,was involved in grooming...
Written by Press Trust Of India
London | September 15, 2009 01:31 AM IST
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Top al-Qaeda commander Rashid Rauf,the terrorist linked to the trans-Atlantic airline bomb plant,was involved in grooming at least two dozen British recruits to carry out more attacks,media reported on Monday.
Rauf escaped from police custody in Pakistan and then reported killed by a missile fired by US drone last November,but British intelligence agencies believe he is still alive. He used the name Khalid to recruit fellow Britons for training at a camp in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
An official said that Rauf was involved with a group of Arab and Uzbek terrorists in a camp in Matta Cheema village in south Waziristan,where two dozen Britons received training.
Rauf was a key lieutenant to Abu Nasir,the groups leader and explosives expert.
He is an explosive expert who has effectively devised methods of explosives using easy-to-get ingredients that are virtually undetectable or can raise no alarms for authorities, The Daily Telegraph reported quoting sources.
Rauf was arrested in Bahawalpur in 2006,where he had married into the citys foremost Islamic extremist family,which was then headed by Masood Azhar,founder of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group.
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