Of course he does.what would one expect?
Bruce Moroccan given asylum in Britain declares innocence in London bombings By SALAH NASRAWI Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt A Moroccan who was given asylum in Britain and named in British media as a suspect in last week's London bombings told Arab television network Al-Jazeera that he is innocent and is not on the run. "I am not hiding and I am not a terrorist," said Mohamed al-Guerbouzi, speaking from London. British media have reported that British investigators asked their European counterparts, including Europol, to search for al-Guerbouzi, 44, but Europol spokesman Rainer Wenning declined to comment on the reports. "These are all lies. They have made up this story," al-Guerbouzi said in the interview aired late Saturday night by the Qatar-based network. He accused someone at the Moroccan embassy in London whom he refused to name of being behind the allegations that he had links to terrorist groups. Al-Guerbouzi was convicted in absentia in his native Morocco in 2003 and sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection with bombings that killed 33 bystanders and 12 suicide bombers in Casablanca two years ago. French officials consider al- Guerbouzi, who has British and Moroccan nationality, to be the founder and principal recruiter of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. He was given asylum in Britain. The British tabloid The Daily Mail appeared Saturday with a front-page banner headline: "Is Moroccan mastermind of the plot?" In the al-Jazeera footage al- Guerbouzi is heard speaking while his bearded face is barely visible through a celluloid shadow the television network used to shield his face. He said he did not want to be shown so to avoid public harassment after his picture was published in Saturday's papers. The al-Jazeera reporter who interviewed him confirmed it was al-Guerbouzi by checking his passport. The London-based Asharq al Awsat newspaper reported that al-Guerbouzi settled in the United Kingdom with his family in 1974 and was in contact with Islamic militants in London. It said he was close to a group that used to send Muslim volunteers to Bosnia to fight the Serbs during the Yugoslavia civil war and to Chechnya to fight the Russians. The paper also quoted him as saying in an old interview that he opposed suicide bombings. "My position is clear. I won't accept for a person to go into a restaurant or a hotel and blow himself up," he was quoted as saying. sn/jt 050710 085556 Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. FAIR 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. 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