Haroon Rashid Aswat

Haroon Rashid Aswat (born ca. 1979 in Britain) is a British citizen of Indian origin. He is alleged to have ties to al Qaeda.

Possible role in the London transit bombing of July 7th, 2005

In the first two weeks following the July 7, 2005 bombingsPolice sources initially told newspapers that Aswat made some 20 mobile phone calls to two of the suspected bombers, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, one just hours before the blasts.

On July 31, 2005, following a more thorough forensic analysis of the remains of the bombers' phones, The Times reported that:

Possible role in setting up a training camp in Oregon in 1999

Aswat is reported to have first come to the attention of American counter-terrorism officials in 2002, because they believed he helped set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon in the United States in 1999.

According to The Sunday Herald, by 1999, Aswat was calling himself a "hit man" for bin Laden.

Believed KIA in Afghanistan in 2003

Aswat's passport was found on a man killed in action in Afghanistan in early 2003.American and British counterterrorism officials believed the...
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