Pakistan attempts to track bombers movements

Pakistan holds two more over UK blasts
Gulf Times

One common thread amongst all suicide jihadists... they all lead to fanatical Islam training schools, madrassas, and associated organizations in their past. They just don't up and convert, read about bombs online and go for it.

The need for eliminating these schools and those soliciting our youth for their jihad is of greatest import.

Intelligence officials had earlier revealed that Shehzad Tanweer, one of the three British-born bombers of Pakistani origin, had visited Faisalabad and the eastern city of Lahore on two trips to Pakistan over the past two years.

“We are interrogating whether these two people (detained in Lahore) had any links with Tanweer,” said an intelligence official.

The security agencies are probing Tanweer’s links with militant groups and madrassas, or Islamic schools, in Pakistan.

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The intelligence officials say Tanweer, 22, made a second visit to Pakistan in late 2004 and stayed in Lahore from December until last February, during which time he visited several mosques and madrassas.

One madrassa that some intelligence officials believed Tanweer visited was in Muridke, on the outskirts of Lahore and home of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a hardline Islamic charity organisation made up of cadres of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Kashmiri militant group.