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Pak student arrested in Britain charged for planning attacks in US | A Pakistani student, who was arrested last year along
with 12 others in raids across Manchester for plotting attacks on shopping centres, has been arrested on suspicion of plotting attacks on New York's underground Metro system. British agencies had failed to extradite Abid Naseer , 24, to Pakistan
after the Special Immigration and Appeals Commission ruled that while he was connected
to Al-Qaeda, he could not be deported back on human rights grounds. However, US
authorities have now demanded Nasser's extradition for trial after evidence suggested
that the explosives which were to be used to bomb the New York Metro were the
same as he has stockpiled for planned attacks in Manchester . The US Department
of Justice (USDoJ) said the American plot was "directly related to a scheme by
Al-Qaeda plotters in Pakistan to use Western operatives to attack a target in
the United Kingdom ," The Telegraph reports. Large quantities of flour and oil
were found when Naseer's residence in Cheetham Hill, Manchester was raided by
police, a statement said. According to a US indictment Nasser and his friend Tariq
ur-Rehman, who returned to Pakistan after he was released from British custody
earlier this year, were recruited at the same time and members of a terrorist
cell coordinated by Rashid Rauf, a British al-Qaeda commander. Rauf was also involved
in the July 7, 2005 terror attacks on London . He is believed to have been killed
in a US drone attack in Pakistan in November 2008. |
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