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Article: Police watched the plan unfold, then pounced
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2009
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The preparations were meticulous, the bombs potentially deadly.
But the conspiracy was doomed from the start. By Cahal Milmo Diary
held plan for the attacks
THE EMAIL sent by Assad Sarwar from an internet cafe in High
Wycombe to an account in Pakistan in the summer of 2006 was meant to
sound innocuous. With its reference to "Calvin Klein aftershave"
costing "80 quid", its contents were crafted to meld seamlessly into
the blizzard of data sent across cyberspace without attracting undue
attention.
In reality, what looked like email trivia was one of dozens of
coded updates sent by Sarwar, a restaurant delivery driver and the
quartermaster of the liquid bombs plot, to the overseas jihadist ...