London Police in search of bombers video

LONDON—British investigators are working with security services in Pakistan to find out whether a London suicide bomber made his posthumous “war” video in Britain or Pakistan, according to The Sunday Telegraph. Though his headless body lies in a London mortuary, Mohammad Siddique Khan came back to haunt investigators with a video on Thursday warning of more bombings like the one on July 7 which killed 52 rush-hour commuters.
Khan was named by police as one of the four bombers, who all died in the attack.
A man identified as Khan said on the video that he admired Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri, who appeared separately in the footage aired on the Al Jazeera television channel.
“We are at war and I am a soldier,” he said in a flat Yorkshire accent.
If the video were recorded in Pakistan, where Khan traveled in the months before the attack, it could point to Al Qaeda being more involved in the plot than had previously been known.
The Sunday Telegraph said British investigators were working with security services in Pakistan to find out where the video was made, possibly in Rawalpindi, a hotbed of Islamic militancy outside the capital Islamabad.
Rawalpindi is where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the September 11 attacks on the United States, was arrested.
If it were made in the northern city of Leeds, where Khan lived, or elsewhere in Britain, it would make it more likely that Khan and his three cohorts took inspiration rather than orders from Al Qaeda, newspapers said.
The Sunday Times reported the video was being examined frame by frame for any clues as to when and where the video was made.
Anti-terrorist branch investigators have already noted that Khan’s haircut differed noticeably from its appearance just before the bombings, suggesting that the video was shot months previously.
They will now try to identify clues from his clothing and examine the tape to identify the equipment on which it was recorded.
The Sunday Telegraph said MI5 intelligence officials suspect Khan, a Briton of Pakistani origin, was filmed in Pakistan after receiving orders for the attack.
Senior Whitehall officials told the paper that MI5 is probing the theory that Khan, 30, was filmed during a three-month visit to Pakistan with fellow bomber Shehzad Tanweer, which began in November last year.—Agencies