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Pakistan jail ordered to produce plot accused Briton Web posted at: 1/27/2007 8:29:37 Source ::: AFP ISLAMABAD • A Pakistani court ordered yesterday authorities produce a Briton who was held in connection with a plot to bomb transatlantic jets after jail chiefs failed to bring him to a legal hearing. Rashid Rauf was seized in Pakistan in August, sparking a worldwide security alert and arrests in Britain, amid fears of a conspiracy to blow up passenger jets flying from London to the United States. The 25-year-old was due to appear at a magistrates court in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, yesterday to face charges including impersonation, carrying a fake identity card and fake documents. “A contempt case has been registered against jail authorities” after Rauf was not produced for the hearing, magistrate Ata Rabbani said. The authorities have now been ordered to bring the Briton to court on February 9 when they will also answer the contempt of court charges, Rauf’s lawyer Hashmat Habib said. “The court has ordered that he should be produced and he was not produced. It is a gross violation of the court order,” said Habib.“My client is innocent.”In December an anti-terrorism court dropped terror charges against Rauf but its order was suspended when the provincial Punjab government appealed to a higher court. A separate hearing on those charges was adjourned on Thursday. The terror charges said Rauf was in possession of 29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide, which were meant to be used to blow up the passenger jets.He denies being linked to the alleged conspiracy. Pakistani officials say Rauf was detained under special terror laws which mean he can be held without charge until August on the grounds that he was a “key man” in the plot, with links to Al Qaeda in neighbouring Afghanistan. Eleven men, most of Pakistani origin, have since been charged in Britain with conspiracy to murder and preparing an act of terrorism. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
