German authorities are investigating a possible link between the captured terrorists of the recent airliner plot and a key figure in the Hamburg cell who worked with Mohammed Atta on the 9/11 attacks. Said Bahaji, a computer expert who helped plan 9/11, may have provided the same assistance to these suspected al-Qaeda terrorists:
German authorities are investigating contacts between a Briton being questioned over the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airlines and a key figure in the September 11, 2001, terrorist cell.
Intelligence sources said that, at Britain’s request, they were examining possible links between the suspect and Said Bahaji, the computer expert in the Hamburg cell that planned the suicide hijackings in 2001.
Bahaji shared an apartment in Hamburg with Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker, and Ramzi Binalshibh, the planner of 9/11. He fled Germany for Pakistan a week before the attacks in New York and Washington and has never been caught.
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Two Pakistani terrorists held at WB border
Kolkata, Aug 14: On the eve of Independence Day, two Pakistani terrorists were today arrested by the BSF while they were crossing over to the Indian side from Bangladesh at Hingalganj in West Bengal's north 24 Parganas district.
The arrested, both residents of Karachi, were identified as Mohammand Zuber, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member and Mohammad Sohail, associated with Jaish-e-Mohammad, DIG(G) of BSF B S Rana told reporters.
Preliminary interrogations by the BSF revealed that the two had arrived in Bangladesh in the first week of July.The duo was prima facie found to be arms dealers and were on way to Kashmir via Delhi, Rana said adding their other real motives of coming to India were being ascertained.
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