I SEEM TO REMEMBER a lot of people downplaying any Al Qaeda connection to the London bombings last summer. But this new video would seem to make the case for such a connection pretty strong:

Pakistani government sources tell ABC News two key operatives in last year’s London bombings, Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Saddique Khan, personally met with Ayman al-Zawahiri in the tribal areas sometime in January 2005.

Both appeared in the same video with Ayman al-Zawahiri, which was broadcast in two parts: the first part featuring Khan, posted in the Internet on Sept. 1, 2005, the second part with Tanweer, posted today.

The same sources say that both Khan and Tanweer were led to South Waziristan via Quetta several weeks after their arrival in Karachi in November 2004 and spent at least three full days with Zawahiri in the tribal areas.

Sounds like a connection to me.