Suspect In London 2005 Bomb Plot Jailed Nearly 7 Years By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-britain-july21.html?pagew anted=print
Filed at 12:55 p.m. ET LONDON (Reuters) - A man accused of helping to plot botched 2005 suicide bombings on London was sentenced to nearly seven years in jail on Monday after he pleaded guilty to a lesser offence. Ethiopian-born Adel Yahya was one of six men to go on trial accused of plotting al Qaeda-inspired attacks on London's transport system on July 21, 2005, two weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 people in the British capital. Detectives said the second plot only failed because the bombers' homemade devices failed to explode. Yahya, who had flown to Ethiopia six weeks before the bombings, was not accused of being one of the four men who tried to carry out the attacks. However, prosecutors had accused him of being a central figure in the plot. While four of his co-accused, Muktah Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman, were jailed for at least 40 years each in July for conspiracy to murder, the jury failed to reach a verdict over Yahya. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of collecting information useful for militants, a week before he was scheduled to face a re-trial. He was jailed for six years and nine months. During the trial, Yahya admitted making inquiries about hydrogen peroxide -- the main ingredient in the homemade bombs -- on behalf of his friend Omar but said he did not realize it was for making bombs. Yahya, who came to Britain as a young child to live in north London, told the court he was "sick" when he had learnt what Omar had been planning. A sixth man suspected of being involved in the plot, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, is due to face a re-trial next week after the jury also failed to reach a verdict in his case. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
