According to a former British security official familiar with the investigation, some of the money raised in British mosques also went to the group’s militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir. On Sunday, a senior American law enforcement official said that the British police and intelligence officials had identified several suspected accomplices of the plotters who were believed to have provided support for the plot outside Britain. The new suspects were identified by checking the arrested men’s computers, the official said.

After the earthquake, which killed some 73,000 people, Jamaat-ud-Dawa raised funds in British Pakistani areas in London, Birmingham and Manchester. The group also urged British people of Pakistani origin to go to the region to help in the relief efforts, and hundreds did.

Several of the 23 suspects still in custody after the arrests by British police on Thursday—most of them Britons of Pakistani descent—travelled to Pakistan last year, ostensibly to help with earthquake relief efforts, said Nasir Ahmed, a leader among Britain’s Pakistanis and a member of the House of Lords.

Ahmed said he was not sure how many of the suspects rounded up last week had gone to Kashmir to help, but among those who had gone were the suspects arrested in High Wycombe, west of London. The former Pakistani official said several of the suspects had gone to Pakistan at the time of the earthquake. The official declined to say whether the suspects were believed to have been organizers or people who had provided support, like passports and safe houses.

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