'9/11 planner behind 7/7'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/2029898.cms
(Gold9472: Wait a second. What about that report that said no "suicide bombers in London were inspired by al-Qaeda but were not directed by a terrorist mastermind?")
26 Sep, 2006
ISLAMABAD: The chief architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks was also linked to last year's suicide blasts on the London transport network, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says in his memoirs.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, confessed that Al Qaida sized up London's subway for an attack at the same time as it hatched a plan to crash jets into Heathrow, Musharraf says in In the Line of Fire .
Another Al Qaida militant tasked by Mohammed to carry out the reconnaissance later revealed a connection to two of the bombers who struck in London on July 7, 2005, the controversial book published on Monday says.
"We had learned from KSM (Mohammed) that Al Qaida's planners were thinking seriously about, and discussing, bombing Heathrow Airport in London ... as well as London's subway system," Musharraf writes.
"The suspect had been told by KSM to carry out reconnaissance of, and prepare a plan to attack, Heathrow Airport. After initial planning, he also suggested Canary Wharf and London's subway system as additional possible targets."
Mohammed, the self-proclaimed key conspirator behind the September 11 attacks, has previously been linked to the foiled Heathrow plot but not to the subway attacks. Musharraf's book says the militant kept in touch with Al Qaida chief Osama Bin Laden at the time he was planning the British attacks through courier-delivered letters.
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