London Terrorism Investigation Heading Towards Pakistani Terrorist Camps - Just Like the Lodi Case (updated)
By Andrew Cochran
Several articles about the London attacks on the Sky News website remind me of the Lodi, CA terrorism case. Of particular interest to me is the biography of 22-year-old Shehzad Tanweer, son of a native Pakistani. Sky quotes "a neighbor and friend" as saying Tanweer told him that he went to Afghanistan for a couple of months and Pakistan for 4 months with several friends as recently as 6 months ago. But one of Tanweer's uncles told Sky News that Tanweer didn't go to Afghanistan. "There is no way, I have seen his passport." Recall that Hamid Hayat of Lodi, age 23, admitted that he attended a Pakistani terrorist training camp for 6 months in 2003-4 (Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's post, quoting the FBI affidavit), along with six other Lodi men. Recall also that Evan Kohlmann noted here that "Since 2002, several suspected terrorist training camps affiliated with Al-Qaida have surfaced along the Pakistani-Afghan border in Waziristan."
Gee, you don't think Tanweer and Hayat might have trained together, do you...
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