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London blasts were planned at terrorist summit in 04: Report

Press Trust of India

London, July 16, 2005

The head of a madrassa in Pakistan, which was once allegedly attended by
one of the four bombers who carried out the blasts here last week, has
been taken into custody even as Pakistani authorities revealed that the
July 7 attacks were planned at a terrorist summit last year, a media
report said on Saturday.

The arrest of the senior cleric came as the British Government signalled
a crackdown on extremists and 'jihadi' recruiters under a range of
anti-terror offences announced on Friday night, 'The Times' daily reported.

The head of the Madrassa was among four men seized as part of the
response by President Pervez Musharraf to the London bombings, it said.
The madrassa is alleged to be where the suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer
first made contact with Al-Qaeda figures.

According to the report, Tanweer spent five days at the madrass at
Muridke, 32 km north of Lahore, which is run by an outlawed terror
group, although officials at the religious school deny this.

Officials in Islamabad said, according to the report, that Britain has
sent a list of names they want traced, most of them British-born.

The raid followed the detention in Cairo of Magdi el-Nashar, an Egyptian
biochemist who had studied at Leeds University and befriended some of
the bombers. Explosives were discovered at his flat in Leeds.

Police are now concentrating on tracking the people who "encouraged,
trained and financed" the attacks, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir
Ian Blair said.