7/7 bomber lived in Osama’s house near Lahore(Pakistan)

newkerala.com ^ | 15 July, 2005

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Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four suspected suicide bombers behind the 7/7 London serial blasts, is said to have lived in the house of Osama bin Laden, located nearly 30 miles from Lahore.

According to The Mirror, Tanweer spent time at Markaz-e-Dawa, a madarasa in north Pakistan where Osama lived until he went on the run in the early 1990s. “It appears Tanweer spent some time at Markaz-e-Dawa and at another militant seminary in the city,” the paper quoted a source as saying.

The paper further said that at the madarasa, Shehzad might have fallen into the clutches of Jaish-i-Muhammad (JeM), a radical Islamic group behind dozens of suicide attacks, both in and outside Pakistan. The fundamentalist group is banned in Pakistan, but it still operates under the cover of a madrassa.

The madarasa turns out religious fanatics and preaches a message of hate against the West. It contains a mosque, an iron foundry, a garment factory, a woodworking centre, three residences for recruits, and 30 schools, and also a computer centre.

Quoting intelligence experts, the report said that besides teaching the Quran, the madarasa also runs a 21-day course covering assassinations and bombs. “Thousands of people assemble there during recruitment rallies. The importance of jihad is drummed in and emotional speeches and rhetoric move people to tears and frenzied chanting,” Maj. Gen. Afsir Karim is said to have written in the Asian Journal on International Terrorism. He alleged that some students even get specialised instruction in sabotage.

The paper said that most of the world’s terrorist leaders visit the school. Ramzi Yousef, who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, also stayed at this madarasa, it added.

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Why is this place still standing?