Bomb suspect held on return to UK Suspected 21 July failed bomber Hussain Osman has been arrested by anti-terror officers after arriving back in the UK following his extradition from Italy.
Mr Osman, 27, was formally arrested at RAF Northolt on suspicion of attempted murder, conspiracy to murder and committing explosives offences. Mr Osman, also known as Hamdi Issac, is suspected of trying to blow up a Tube train at Shepherd's Bush, London. He will appear before magistrates sitting at Belmarsh jail on Friday. He had been held in Rome's Rebibbia prison but on Thursday was taken to the city's Ciampino airport to be flown back to the UK. Scotland Yard said officers from the Metropolitan Police's extradition unit had accompanied Ethiopian-born Mr Osman on a private charter jet from Rome, which touched down at RAF Northolt at 1339 BST. Within minutes, anti-terrorism officers had boarded the plane and formally arrested the suspect. Test case Mr Osman was taken from the base to high-security Paddington Green police station, in west London, as part of the extradition procedure. Mr Osman was arrested in Rome a week after the attempted bombings. He lost his appeal against extradition last week. His Italian lawyer, Antonietta Sonnessa, had appealed against him being sent back to Britain - arguing he would not get a fair trial. The case is being seen as a test case for the new European Arrest Warrant, which is intended to speed up extradition in such cases. Three other suspected bombers - Ibrahim Muktar Said, 27, Yassin Hassan Omar, 24, and Ramzi Mohamed, 23 - are currently being held at Belmarsh high-security prison in south-east London. They are charged with attempted murder and possessing explosives following alleged attempted bomb attacks on London's transport network. They and a fourth man, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 32, are also charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. The charges against Mr Asiedu relate to an unexploded device found two days after the bomb attempts. All four are due before a judge at the Old Bailey in December. The failed 21 July attacks took place two weeks to the day after four suicide bombers killed 52 passengers on the London transport network. Story from BBC NEWS: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- 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: [email protected] 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/ <*> 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/
