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.

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...

A British alQaeda suspect reportedly killed by a US missile strike in a Pakistani tribal area was linked to the group's secondincommand Ayman alZawahiri according to officials.

Rashid Rauf, who was implicated in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, is thought to be among five militants killed by the missile strike, Pakistani intelligence officials...

Rashid Rauf the alleged British mastermind of an audacious terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic airliners was killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan.