Brains Behind Terror Plot May Be Brit the Security Services Thought Was Dead the Mastermind?
Sunday Herald › August 02, 2005
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THE smartly dressed British officials smiled and punched the air as news came through that the passport of Haroon Rashid Aswat had been recovered from the body of a young Muslim killed fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Days later and sitting round a table deep within Thames House, the headquarters of MI5 in London, the officers were in no doubt that Aswat's death had eliminated a major terrorist threat to the UK.See the full content of this document
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Brains Behind Terror Plot May Be Brit the Security Services Thought Was Dead the Mastermind?
Laid out before the group were highly classified photographs and papers from his file, revealing the activities, friends and acquaintances of a young man who was increasingly becoming a headache for Britain's security services.
It was early in 2003, but in the previous few years, the file on Aswat had burgeoned. The activist,...See the full content of this document
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