Al-Qaida suspect was gifted student, professor recalls

The computer expert arrested in Pakistan and suspected of being involved in al-Qaida plots to attack London targets was a gifted student who never showed signs of Islamic militancy until after he graduated and left home in 2001, his father and a former professor said today.

The two men’s accounts about Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan paint a picture of a good-natured young man from a middle-class Karachi neighbourhood with a passion for computers who stayed out of trouble.