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Terror Figures Met in Lahore, Pakistan Says
A suspected Al Qaeda explosives expert sought by the FBI reportedly held talks last spring with a planner and a computer engineer.
By Paul Watson
Times Staff Writer
August 17, 2004
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suspected Al Qaeda explosives expert being hunted for more than a year by the FBI met secretly in Pakistan last spring with one of the terrorist network's planners and a computer engineer, Pakistani officials said Monday.
The bomb maker, described as an Arab, managed to slip out of Pakistan along with senior Al Qaeda member Abu Eisa al Hindi after a March meeting with computer engineer and communications coordinator Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan in the city of Lahore, said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, spokesman for Pakistan's military.
Investigators found surveillance reports related to buildings in the U.S. and Britain on Khan's computers and dozens of disks. But nothing Khan told interrogators suggested a new attack plan was discussed at the meeting in March, Sultan said in an interview.
"They just met. That is it," he said.
The military spokesman said he could not identify the explosives expert or his nationality. Time magazine identified him Monday as Adnan El Shukrijumah, 29.<snip>