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British police did not want to yet arrest Rashid Rauf, the alleged mastermind, al-Qaeda facilitator and key informant on the details of the 10th August terror plot. They had wanted him arrested in UK for a UK trial. Asma Jehangir, of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said that it was obvious how information had been obtained - torturing Rauf in Pakistan.

But Rauf is a UK citizen. The UK thus appears to be agreeing to torture of its citizens in Pakistan.

The arrest of Rashid Rauf purportedly triggered the ensuing wave of UK arrests, with Rauf providing in-depth details of the plot to his interrogators in Pakistan. Among the details attributed to Rauf is the idea that the plotters intended to mix a "sports drink" with a gel-like "peroxide-based paste" to create a chemical explosive that "could be ignited with an MP3 player or cell phone."

Citing US chemistry experts, Washington-based information security journalist Thomas C. Greene further concludes that "... the fabled binary liquid explosive -- that is, the sudden mixing of hydrogen peroxide and acetone with sulfuric acid to create a plane-killing explosion, is out of the question... We have reacted to a movie plot"