Report: QE2 was South African terror target

The QE2 liner was among the targets selected by two South Africans – captured in Pakistan along with a senior al-Qaida terrorist – who were plotting attacks on tourist sites in their home country, it was reported today.

Raja Munawar Hussain, the chief of police in Gujrat, the eastern Pakistani city where they were arrested, said several maps of South African cities were among the items seized after the raid, which also netted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian with a £13.7m (€2.07m) bounty on his head for the 1998 twin East Africa embassy bombings.