http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6637917.stm Police hold 7 July bomber's widow The wife of 7 July bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan is among four people arrested in connection with the 2005 attacks, which killed 52 people.
Officers arrested Hasina Patel, 29, her brother Arshad Patel, 30, and Khalid Khaliq, 34, in West Yorkshire; Imran Motala, 22, was held in Birmingham. They are being quizzed in London on suspicion of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism. Seven addresses in the West Midlands and West Yorkshire are being searched. Forensic teams are searching a property in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, in Leonard Road, and police are guarding a block of student flats in Selly Oak. But a University of Birmingham spokeswoman said Mr Motala, who was arrested in the Selly Oak area, was not a student there. A police lorry removed a silver Peugeot 307 from the flats - in a block called Victoria Hall on Grange Road. A car was also removed from the Handsworth address. BBC sources say Mr Motala is also related to Ms Patel. In West Yorkshire five addresses are being searched - two houses in Pentland Road and Dale Street, Dewsbury; two in Tempest Road, Beeston, Leeds; and one in Hayburn Gardens, Batley. Attacks Mr Khaliq is from Tempest Road in Beeston - the street where 7 July Aldgate Tube bomber Shehzad Tanweer lived. Tanweer was one of four suicide bombers to mount the co-ordinated attacks in the capital nearly two years ago, which also injured more than 750 people. Ringleader Khan, 30, killed six people when he bombed a train near Edgware Road station. A train travelling between King's Cross and Russell Square was also bombed, as was a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The arrests on Wednesday morning followed an intelligence-led operation involving Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command and units in West Yorkshire and the West Midlands. Armed officers were not used in the operation. Police said the inquiry remained a "painstaking investigation" into whether anyone knew what the bombers had been planning and who may have helped them. Both West Midlands and West Yorkshire forces said they were keeping the affected local communities informed. Others charged Chief superintendent Barry South, of West Yorkshire Police, said the searches could take a matter of hours or days. "We don't perceive any threat from the addresses that we are searching at this moment," he said. "It is a high profile investigation but a low key response in terms of how we are policing this operation." Mr South would not confirm the names of the suspects - who have arrived at London's Paddington Green police station. He said the important issue was to reassure the local community, confirming that meetings had taken place with councillors and key community leaders in the area. Last month the first people to be charged in connection with the bombings appeared at the Old Bailey in central London. Mohammed Shakil, 30, Sadeer Saleem, 26, and Waheed Ali, 23, of Beeston, Leeds, are accused of conspiring with the four bombers to cause explosions. The trio, who came before the court via a video link from prison, were remanded in custody until 8 June. [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: [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/ <*> 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/
