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| 'Bomb plot' terror charge dropped | 'Bomb plot' terror charge dropped |
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| A Pakistani judge has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a key suspect in an alleged airline bomb plot on terrorism charges. | A Pakistani judge has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a key suspect in an alleged airline bomb plot on terrorism charges. |
| He has moved the case of Rashid Rauf from an anti-terrorism court to a regular court, where he faces lesser charges such as forgery. | He has moved the case of Rashid Rauf from an anti-terrorism court to a regular court, where he faces lesser charges such as forgery. |
| Pakistan has presented Mr Rauf as one of the ringleaders behind the alleged plan to blow up flights out of London. | |
| The British authorities say they foiled it with Pakistan's help in August. | |
| 'Explosives' | |
| The arrest of Rashid Rauf in Pakistan triggered arrests in the UK of a number of suspects allegedly plotting to blow up transatlantic flights. | |
| The Pakistani authorities described him as a key figure. | |
| But an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi found no evidence that he had been involved in terrorist activities or that he belonged to a terrorist organisation. | |
| As well as forgery charges, Mr Rauf has also been charged with carrying explosives. | |
| But his lawyer says police evidence amounts only to bottles of hydrogen peroxide found in his possession. | |
| Hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant that can be used for bomb-making if other chemicals are added. | |
| 'Suspected conspiracy' | |
| In August, the British government requested the extradition of Mr Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani origin, in connection with a murder committed in 2002. | |
| Scotland Yard declined to discuss which murder case the request related to. | |
| The government in Pakistan, which has no extradition treaty with the UK, said it was considering the request. | |
| Rashid Rauf was arrested in Pakistan earlier that month over the alleged plot to blow up US-bound aircraft, Pakistan's foreign ministry said. | |
| He has been described by Pakistan's government as a "key person" in the "suspected conspiracy". |