Tayib Rauf

Tayib Rauf (born April 26, 1984) is one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom, and one of the nineteen whose accounts were frozen by the Bank of England.cite web|author=BBC|title='Air plot' suspects: Names released|publisher=BBC|accessdate=August 11|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4782343.stm]

Background

Tayib Rauf was born in England. He is one of five children born to parents Abdul and Saima. His father immigrated to Britain in 1960s from his native village of Haveli Beghal in the Mirpur District of Pakistan.cite web|author=abcnews|title=22 Suspects Questioned About Terror Plot|publisher=abcnews|accessdate=August 13|accessyear=2006|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2307364]

Tayib has three brothers and one sister. Due to a childhood illness, Tayib is partially deaf.

Mohammed Nazam, a family-friend and owner of a grocery shop where Tayib Rauf had been video taped prior to being arrested described Tayib as an ordinary youth who delivered buns and cakes from his father's confectionary shop.cite web|author=Scheherezade Faramarzi|title=British Suspects Described As Ordinary|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=August 13|accessyear=2006|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/08/14/international/i105157D22.DTL] . Nazam said the family hails from a long line of respected religious judges in Kashmir's Mirpur region. "They are a religious family back home, known as qazi" or religious judges and leaders. "The kids are religious."

uspected terrorist involvement

According to various sourcescite web|author=Guardian Online|title='Terror Plot Suspects Questioned|publisher=Guardian Online|accessdate=August 13|accessyear=2006|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6012274,00.html] one of his brothers is Rashid Rauf, who was arrested in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan in connection with the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot. Authorities believe that Rashid has links to al-Qaeda and was a leader in the plot to blow up jetliners with liquid explosives.

An official with Britain's anti-terrorist unit stated on 23 August that Tayib Rauf was released along with another person. A friend of the Rauf family, also confirmed that Tayib had been released [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8036AEE2-2E7F-4D18-92EE-DCC6701EDADB.htm] .

Timeline

10 AugustSuspect arrested by British authorities.

11 AugustAssets are frozen by the Bank of England and name published.

23 AugustReleased from custody without charge.

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