Reply #77: KTLA/LA Times Link

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http://ktla.trb.com/news/nationworld/world/ktla-fg-britbomb14jul14-lat,0,5331768.story?coll=ktla-news-1

Britain Sees More Links to Al Qaeda

One bombing suspect knew alleged extremists arrested last year in a foiled plot, officials say.

By Sebastian Rotella
Times Staff Writer

July 14, 2005

LONDON -- Investigators have linked one of the suspected London suicide bombers to a group of alleged extremists arrested here last year in a foiled terrorist plot by a Pakistan-based Al Qaeda group, authorities said Wednesday.

Mohamed Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old primary school teacher, has emerged as a key figure among the four suspected bombers, European and U.S. investigators said. Although officials had said that Khan and the other three were unknown to security personnel before last week's attack, investigators now think Khan was an associate of some of those arrested in last year's plot.

That strengthens suspicions that the London attacks were carried out by an Al Qaeda branch that teamed Pakistani masterminds with Pakistani British operatives and had tried to strike Britain before, investigators said.
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