Arrest in Pakistan that made police close in on main suspectsThe man whose arrest in Pakistan set in train the final stages of the investigation into the so-called airline bomb plot originally came to the attention of British police as a suspect in a murder case in Birmingham. Rashid Rauf Rashid Rauf, a dual citizen of Britiain and Pakistan, was arrested in Bhawalpur, Pakistan in connection with the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot in August 2006, a day before the arrests were made in Britain. is the 27-year-son of a businessman who holds dual British and Pakistani nationality and is believed to be on the run in Pakistan, where he escaped from custody last December. Rauf, who grew up in the West Midlands West Midlands, former metropolitan county, central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Birmingham conurbation and comprised seven metropolitan districts: Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, , went to Pakistan in 2002, shortly after one of his uncles, Mohammed Saeed, was stabbed to death in Birmingham. He is still wanted on a murder charge and yesterday a spokesperson for West Midlands police West Midlands Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second largest in the United Kingdom after London's Metropolitan Police [1]. It covers an area with nearly 2. said the force was liaising with the Home Office and Foreign Office regarding his extradition. Rauf initially settled in Bhawalpur after leaving England and married a relative of the founder of the radical Islamic group Noun 1. Islamic Group - a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia Jaish-e-Mohammed. As a result of his connections he was placed under surveillance by the Pakistani authorities. In August 2006, supposedly under pressure from the US authorities, Rauf was detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: for questioning. His arrest meant that the British authorities had to act immediately as they feared it would alert suspects under surveilance in Britain. Rauf was cleared of terrorism charges by a court in Pakistan in December 2006, but remained in custody until December last year when he was allowed by his two police escorts to enter a mosque alone but in handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. on the way back from a court appearance in Rawalpindi to the Adiala high security prison. He is still at large. Although Rauf is from Birmingham, his family has close ties to the Kashmiri village Hevali Begal, which has many links to the West Midlands. Many left the area when villages were shifted for dam-building 50 years ago, headed for the West Midlands, worked hard in small businesses, saved and returned to build second homes. Rauf's father, Abdul, who started a bakery equipment business, was one of those who left and has returned. This year his lawyer, Hasmat Ali Habib, said Rauf could still be held by the Pakistani intelligence services and could be killed "in crossfire A multi-GPU interface from ATI for connecting two ATI display adapters together for faster graphics rendering on one monitor. CrossFire machines require PCI Express slots, a CrossFire-enabled motherboard and, depending on which models are used, either a pair of ATI Radeon adapters or one " during a police operation. "You could call it a 'mysterious disappearance' if you like, but not an escape." 
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