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The same source also told NBC News that the United States had threatened to use [[extraordinary rendition]] upon suspected ringleader [[Rashid Rauf]] in Pakistan, or to pressure the [[Pakistan Government|Pakistan government]] to arrest him. A United States official acknowledged disagreement over the timing of arrests and that British officials had believed that an attack was not imminent. However, [[Frances Townsend]], Assistant to the President for [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Homeland Security]], denied the report of a dispute: "There was no disagreement between US and UK officials."<ref name=msnbc14320452/>

In [[Ron Suskind]]'s book ''[[The Way of the World (book)|The Way of the World]]'' (2008), Vice President [[DickRichard Cheney|RichardDick Cheney]] is reported to have "ordered" the arrest of Rauf in Pakistan in August 2006, as an attempt to provide "good news" prior to the [[2006 United States elections|US 2006 mid-term elections]].<ref name=Jenkins8909>[[Simon Jenkins]], ''The Guardian'', 8 September 2009, [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/sep/08/bomb-plot-trial-war-on-terror This trial tells us it's policing, not war, that stops terrorists] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911064644/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/08/bomb-plot-trial-war-on-terror |date=11 September 2009 }}</ref>

==The plot==