Terror plot: Rashid Rauf profile

telegraph.co.uk
Apr. 9, 2009
The disclosure that British alQaeda suspect Rashid Rauf may be linked to yesterday's alleged terror plot in Manchester will establish him as something of a folk hero among Islamic militants because until yesterday he was supposed to be dead.
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