Airline terror trial: US 'undermined British investigation'

telegraph.co.uk
Sep. 8, 2009
The police investigation into the alQaeda airline bomb plot was undermined after America pressurised Pakistan to arrest the suspected ringleader Rashid Rauf it has emerged.
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