NEFA TerrorWatch: New Insight into the 7/7 Bombings, Pakistan Terror Connections
By Evan Kohlmann
This week's edition of the NEFA Foundation's TerrorWatch cybercast takes an inside look at "Operation Theseus": a series of ongoing criminal investigations and trials in the United Kingdom involving a network of alleged accomplices in the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings in London. In the Spring of 2007, British police arrested four men: Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil, Sadeer Saleem, and Khalid Khaliq—accusing them of complicity in the bombings and possession of terrorist propaganda materials. Two of the men were arrested at Manchester Airport while attempting to board a flight to Pakistan. At locations in central England, U.K. counterterrorism police recovered a variety of terrorist propaganda documents. During the subsequent trial, prosecutors have released several eye-opening pieces of evidence, including police surveillance footage of the two 7/7 bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer along with several of the Operation Theseus defendants during a suspected reconnaissance trip to London in March 2004 in anticipation of their planned suicide attack.
The entire TerrorWatch episode can be viewed on the NEFA Foundation website.