MI5 hunts terror cell in Britain following al-Qaeda boast

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Source: The Telegraph

MI5 is hunting a cell of British terrorists connected to an al-Qaeda commander who boasted of Mumbai-style attacks in Europe.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Published: 7:00AM BST 09 Oct 2010

The Security Service is investigating a network connected to Ilyas Kashmiri, a one-eyed senior al-Qaeda commander who sparked an alert over commando-style attacks in Europe and has also threatened the Commonwealth Games, sources say.

Kashmiri is said to act under orders from Osama bin Laden and to have boasted to an informant that he had already sent terrorist cells to attack Britain and Germany, sources told the Daily Telegraph.

He has claimed involvement in the 1994 kidnap of four western tourists in India alongside Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British man who was later convicted for the kidnap and execution of Daniel Pearl, the journalist.

Sources say that Kashmiri still has links to terrorists in Britain, although no evidence has emerged that any have reached the stage of planning attacks.


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