AMSTERDAM — Military police arrested a man who was allegedly carrying eight passports at Schiphol Airport on Thursday. Military police said the man — who was about to board a flight to Istanbul — was carrying seven Swedish and one Finnish passport.
The passports were real and at least four of the Swedish documents were registered as being stolen. The man is being held on remand and authorities are investigating what he was planning to do with the travel documents.
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‘Human pipeline’ of terror linked to Pakistan
Sunday, January 07, 2007
WASHINGTON: There is a “human pipeline” that arranges for alienated British Muslim youths – many of them born in the UK of Pakistani heritage – to travel to Pakistan for indoctrination and training at temporary terrorist “camps”, believed to be operated by Al Qaeda leaders, according to a report in the current issue of Newsweek.
The report quoted US authorities as saying that the UK-Pakistan pipeline had played a role in several planned terrorist plots. A US intelligence official said that agencies on both sides of the Atlantic had information linking a 26-year-old London man, Muhammed Al-Ghabra, as a major organiser for Al Qaeda and other terror groups to some of the well-known plots.
The information that the US Treasury Department made public in its announcement freezing Ghabra’s assets appears to affirm his role as a “terrorist fixer”. The Treasury statement said some of the would-be terrorists that Ghabra allegedly helped travel to Pakistan returned to the UK to “engage in covert activity on Al Qaeda’s behalf”. It said that during a visit to Pakistan in 2002, Ghabra allegedly met and stayed at the home of Abu Faraj Al-Libi, who at the time was believed to have succeeded the 9/11 mastermind as the Al Qaeda operations chief. Ghabra was also accused of training at a terror camp in Kashmir. The US government is the only party involved in designating Ghabra as a terror organiser that has released such detailed information on him.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/01/07/story_7-1-2007_pg1_2
Report: U.K. Army Guarding Energy Plants
Jan 6, 7:34 PM
LONDON (AP) - Britain's army will be deployed at oil, gas and electricity facilities in the country to defend them from potential terrorist attacks, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The News of the World cited an unnamed security source as confirming security will be increased around the facilities after intelligence suggested terrorists may target the country's infrastructure. The newspaper said the measure would mark the first time soldiers had been called in to guard such facilities. The Home Office said the review of security around key infrastructure did not come in response to any specific threat and added the general threat level to the country has not changed. A Home Office spokeswoman declined to comment further on the report.
Yes, yes, I am interested as to what he was going to do with those travel passorts.
Thanks for the post, Oorang.
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