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Pakistan terror suspect `visited' U.K.

By Hasan Suroor

LONDON, AUG 8. Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, a computer `expert' whose arrest in Pakistan on terror charges triggered alarmist warnings in America last week, reportedly spent several weeks in Britain a few months ago, staying with his grandmother and aunt in Reading, about 40 km from Heathrow airport — allegedly a potential terrorist target.

The two women have said they had no idea of the purpose of his visit, but he told them he was attending a computer course and needed somewhere to stay.

"He said he was doing a computer course and was studying but didn't say where. He just went out in the morning and came back in the evening. When he came back late, he said he had joined a library and had been studying,'' his aunt Arifa Noor Khan told The Sunday Telegraph.

Mrs. Khan, a divorcee who lives alone with her septuagenarian mother Batool Begum, said that after staying for a few weeks, Noor Khan suddenly announced that he was returning to Pakistan.

Noor Khan's arrest has provoked a media frenzy, especially after Pakistani investigators reportedly claimed that they had seized `maps' and drawings of Heathrow airport from his computer files indicating that he may have been involved in a `plot' to attack it.

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