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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani authorities gave British authorities images of London's Heathrow Airport and other sites that were found on computers belinging to two arrested al-Qaida fugitives, intelligence officials said Thursday. It was not clear if the information played a role in the Tuesday arrests of 13 people in Britain. One was released and the rest were being questioned. Maps, photographs and other details of possible targets in the United States and Britain were found in computers belonging to Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - a Tanzanian indicted for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa...

A terror suspect held in UK swoops was finalising plans to bomb Heathrow, it was believed last night. The plot’s details were on the computer of another al-Qaeda suspect seized in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda’s UK chief, codename Bilal, got his orders from Osama Bin Laden, via the Pakistani “postman”. Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan forwarded the command to the UK cell's chief. The Muslim, one of 12 terror suspects held after police swoops on Tuesday, was arrested after a tip-off that he was receiving direct orders from Bin Laden. The raids followed the arrest in Pakistan of computer expert Khan. He masterminded...

The U.S. and Pakistan may have found a way to read months, or years, worth of secret al Qaeda messages. No one is saying anything about that, but it works like this. The recent warnings that al Qaeda was planning attacks on specific targets in the United States was said to come from recent people, and information, captured in Pakistan. One of the two key al Qaeda people captured was Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, an English speaking Pakistani computer engineer. Khan was running an al Qaeda communications network, using email and encryption to distribute messages that could not be read...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Boston woman sought by the FBI for questioning about possible ties to the al-Qaida terror network is in custody in Pakistan, U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Aafia Siddiqui, 31, was detained by Pakistani authorities in the past few days and was being interrogated at an undisclosed location. She originally is from Pakistan. The FBI in March put out a global alert for Siddiqui, who has a biology degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wrote a doctoral thesis on neurological sciences at Brandeis University in...