Suspected Bomber Is Linked to Pakistan-Based Al Qaeda

Investigators have linked one of the suspected London suicide bombers to a group of accused extremists arrested here last year in a foiled terrorist plot by a Pakistan-based Al Qaeda group, authorities said Wednesday.

Mohamed Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old primary school teacher, has emerged as a key figure among the four suspected bombers, European and U.S. investigators said.... investigators now believe Khan was an associate of some of the suspects in last year's foiled plot linked to Pakistan.

...Investigators believe Khan and the other bombers, who traveled extensively to countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, received training from Al Qaeda specialists. Khan may have helped recruit and prepare his fellow bombers, like him all British-Pakistanis from the northern city of Leeds, investigators said.

... the London case seems to point toward the classic inner core of Al Qaeda, whose surviving leaders are thought to be hiding in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands....

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