Two Brits arrested in Afghanistan after trying to contact Taliban

Telegraph:

The pair, who are of Afghan origin and are understood to have dual nationality, were detained by the SAS during a raid on a guest house in Herat, an historic city close to the Iranian border.

They are thought to be the first Britons to be captured alive in Afghanistan since 2001, although there have been reports of Britons who have died in suicide operations or been killed.

The couple were known to MI5 in Britain but they were not considered “high priority” targets and managed to leave the country unnoticed, security sources told the Daily Telegraph.

They were picked up in Herat soon after arriving in Afghanistan when MI6 learned they were trying to “establish contact” with the Taliban or al-Qaeda in order to learn bomb-making skills.
It is believed they were planning a terrorist attack in Britain, but one source said: “They were intercepted at an early stage so it is difficult to know what the targets would have been.”

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British special forces conducted a raid on Wednesday last week in which the suspects were captured and then flown by helicopter to Kandahar airbase where they were interrogated.

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There is much more.

It looks like British intelligence caught up with them pretty quickly. Their actions suggest they were looking for help in preparing a mass murder for Allah attack in the UK.