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Both American intelligence officials, and the mainstream press, have written about al Qaeda having maintained one or more safe houses in Lahore, Pakistan. Other groups, alleged to have a commitment to terrorism, or ties to al Qaida, are reported to have maintained safe houses in Lahore.

American intelligence officials asserted that American citizen Jose Padilla and UK resident Binyam Mohammed were trained how to construct and employ radiological "dirty bombs" and an al Qaeda safe house in Lahore. The two men were alleged to have agreed to travel to the USA to set of one or more dirty bombs.

The Los Angeles Times reported on June 16, 2002, that the Lahore safe house where Padilla was trained to employ dirty bombs was raided during the evening of March 28, 2002, the same night as Abu Zubaydah was captured at a safe house in Faisalabad.

According to Thomas Joscelyn, writing in The Weekly Standard, Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, one of the first ten Guantanamo captives to face charges before a military commission, translated the instructions for preparing a dirty bomb while staying at a Lahore safe house.

Michael Scheuer, the former CIA analyst who had been responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden, wrote that on March 13, 2003: : "Pakistan authorities arrest Moroccan national Yasser al-Jazeri, who, according to U.S. officials, was a 'trusted subordinate of Osama bin Laden.' He was responsible for facilitating communications among al Qaeda leaders and was captured in a 'posh' neighborhood in Lahore."