Several revealing security nuggets -- some encouraging, some worrying -- emerged when a London man pleaded guilty Tuesday to terror offences at the Old Bailey. Sohail Qureshi admitted planning to fly to Pakistan to commit "acts of terrorism." He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in October 2006 carrying thousands of pounds in cash plus night-sight equipment and medical supplies.Entering the guilty plea meant he wasn't required to answer questions in court about his precise intentions. But searches through his Internet communications turned up a desire to "kill many" in his "operation."
Peter Clarke, the UK's top counterterror police officer, said he believed that coalition forces, possibly in Afghanistan, were the most likely target.
The worrying security nugget was the revelation that Qureshi had been in communication, by e-mail and via extremist Web forums, with a woman by the name of Samina Malik.
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