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MI6 headquarters |
LONDON -- MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, is certain that Rashi Rauf did not die in a CIA missile attack last year, and the 27-year-old son of a Muslim baker in Birmingham, England, who has a strong physical resemblance to a younger Osama bin Laden has been placed on a most wanted list, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
He's believed to be plotting further attacks from his redoubt in the Pakistan badlands in the north of the country.
Britain's two intelligence services have placed the tall, bearded and hook-nosed terrorist on their most wanted list and described him "as highly dangerous as his mentor, bin Laden."
Months after Rauf was presumed dead by the CIA, he was spotted by MI6 agents in Pakistan with senior al-Qaida terrorists. They had been guests at Rauf's wedding to the daughter of the founder of a radical group called Jaish-e-Mohamed, which is outlawed in Britain and America.
Last week three of Rauf's radicalized young associates were found guilty of plotting to blow up passenger flights out of the sky over the Atlantic.
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The plot had been masterminded by Rauf after he fled to Pakistan in 2002, a suspect in the murder of his uncle. He joined al-Qaida and, using his knowledge, was given by bin Laden the task of plotting the July 7 and July 21 attacks in London in 2005. Then, from his safe house at Bahawalpur, in the North West Province, he masterminded the airline plot.
Having learned that Rauf did not die in the missile attack, members of the Secret Intelligence Service fear he is now in the midst of planning new al-Qaida attacks for bin Laden in Britain.
"We believe he is now the head of a terrorist network that stretches from Britain to South Africa and across the Middle East," said a senior intelligence officer in London.
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