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Lost track
The police knew the name of the London terrorist in advance
Yesterday, the British newspaper The Sunday Times published scandalous information regarding the investigation into the bombings that took place ten days ago in London. It turns out that last year British intelligence agencies checked one of the bombers, Mohammed Sadiq Khan, but decided that he did not pose a threat. British police do not comment on this information.However, last week, after a meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the European Union in Brussels, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that in the spring of 2004, British police detained and immediately released several future London bombers. According to him, the law enforcement forces hoped that the suspects would lead them to a wide terrorist network.
30-year-old Briton of Pakistani origin Sadiq Khan was the eldest of the four bombers, and his figure is now attracting increased attention. It turned out that in July 2004 he even visited the British Parliament as a guest of Labor MP John Trickett - the future saboteur accompanied a group of children from the British town of Leeds, where three of the four suicide bombers lived, on a trip to London. The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that in 2003, Sadiq Khan allegedly came to the Jewish state to help prepare a suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv when British Pakistani-born Asaf Hanif blew himself up in a bar. But Israeli intelligence agencies yesterday called the information "unsubstantiated."
British police found ideological traces of preparations for the London bombings in Leeds. A store that sold Islamic literature and video CDs, as well as held seminars and presentations, came under suspicion. Local Muslims recall that at first the shop owner simply wanted to distract young people from drugs and crime. However, over time, work to strengthen the Islamic faith among young people turned into preaching hatred of the West and exposing the machinations of other religions against Muslims. Today Home Secretary Charles Clarke will report to Parliament on new laws aimed at those who study or teach terrorist attacks.
Yesterday, Scotland Yard officially named all four bombers - British Pakistani-born Mohammad Sadiq Khan, Shehzad Tanveer (22), Haseeb Hussain (18) and 19-year-old Jermaine Lindsay, who was brought to the UK from Jamaica as an infant. Police released surveillance camera footage of the four bombers together (pictured) . In 90 min. Before the explosions, they enter Luton railway station in north London with backpacks to travel to the center of the British capital. But the police do not claim that they were all suicides.
There is a version in the media that the four were going to plant bombs and leave the scene of the explosion, but did not have time or were deceived by an unknown organizer. The Sunday Telegraph notes that the young men had return tickets from London to Luton and a paid check for parking a car left at the station.
The police are currently developing two foreign leads. Pakistani intelligence agencies have arrested eight people from Faisalabad and Lahore who are suspected of having links with Shehzad Tanveer: the young man has been there for the last two years. In 2003, he met with a militant who was later arrested for bombing a Protestant church in Islamabad. British intelligence services provided their Pakistani colleagues with a list of Tanveer's phone calls. However, the leadership of the radically oriented Mansur al-Islam madrasah in Lahore denies contacts with Tanvir.
Another trail leads to Egypt - the authorities of this country arrested 33-year-old biochemist Magdi al-Nashar, who was engaged in research at the University of Leeds and left the UK before the terrorist attacks. But the biochemist denied involvement in the explosions, and he arrived in Egypt on vacation to return to Leeds. Earlier it was reported that traces of explosives were found in the British house of Al-Nashara. But the head of the Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs has already stated that the biochemist is not a member of Al-Qaeda and journalists were too hasty in linking him with the case of the bombings in London. British investigators are present in Egypt for interrogations of Al-Nashar.