<http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003967.html> UK: Five Muslims Jailed For Assisting Failed Bombers
Today, February 04, 2008, 6 hours ago | Giraldus Cambrensis http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003967.html <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003967.html> The Failed Attacks Of July 21, 2005 Today five men were given jail sentences for assisting the men who had tried to carry out suicide bombings in London on July 21, 2005. On July 10, 2007, four <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003903.html> individuals were convicted of conspiracy to murder. They were all handed life sentences. Exactly a fortnight after Mohammed Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay had blown up three London tube trains and their accomplice Hasib Hussain had blown up a Number 30 bus on July 7, 2005 (7/7), the four men had tried to repeat their actions. The leader of the July 21, 2005 suicide cell was Eritrean-born Muktar Said <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/email_news/6634901.stm> Ibrahim. He had tried to blow up a bus he had boarded in Shoreditch, east London. When the bus reached Hackney Road, he tried to blow up his rucksack, but it failed to detonate. The detonator itself caused a window to blow out, and Ibrahim fled. burka <http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42592000/jpg/_42592761_burkamet203.jp g> Ibrahim's accomplices included Somali-born Yassin Omar <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634917.stm> . He had been responsible for mixing up the acetone peroxide that comprised the explosive material used by the 7/21 bombers. He had used diluted hydrogen peroxide in the concoction, so none of the devices blew up. Yassin Omar tried to blow up a tube train approaching Warren Street. When this failed he fled. He escaped to Birmingham wearing his mother-in-law's burka, and carrying a purse. He was arrested in Birmingham a fortnight after the failed bombing. In the communal waste bins outside Yassin Omar's apartment block, 186 empty bottles of hydrogen peroxide were found. Additionally letters bearing Muktar Ibrahim's name were found, as well as a Co-op bank card and a National Insurance card. Additionally, a bottle containing residual traces of sulfuric acid, rubber gloves and Pakistani bank notes were found. Somali-born Ramzi <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634955.stm> Mohammed lived at Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington. He had also tried to blow up a tube train on 7/21. He was challenged by fireman Angus Campbell but managed to escape. He was arrested with Muktar Ibrahim at Mohammed's apartment in Stockwell on July 29, 2005. While at Belmarsh jail during his trial, he wrote on his cell wall: "Al-Qaeda - the book that will guide you to victory. Be patient... as you have been promised paradise." The fourth individual who tried to blow himself up was Ethiopian-born Hussain Osman <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634923.stm> . He had used his brother's passport to flee to Italy after failing to blow up a tube train. He went via Paris, Milan and Bologna, and was arrested in Rome on July 29, three days after leaving London. He had been traced by his mobile phone. Osman, born as Hamdi Issac Adus, was extradited back to Britain on September 22, <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000184.html> 2007. A fifth individual, Ghanaian-born Manfo Kwaku Asiedu <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634913.stm> had been scheduled to blow himself up, but at the eleventh hour changed his mind. He dumped his rucksack in a park. He had lived in an apartment with Yassin Omar at New Southgate, north London, and had assisted in the purchase of chemicals to make the explosives. On July 26, 2005, he handed himself in to a police station and confessed. During the trial, he maintained that Muktar Ibrahim had threatened him, even in prison. Manfo Kwaku Asiedu is an assumed name. His real identity could be, according to his lawyer Stephen Kamlish QC, Sumaila Abubakhari. During the trial, Mudassar Arani, the lawyer for Muktar Ibrahim (who has also represented hook-handed Abu Hamza) reportedly gave money to Manfo Kwaku Asiedu in what appears to have been a bribe <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2357868.ece> . Asiedu was ordered to start a retrial in November. No further news on that is currently available. Another individual, Ethiopian-born Adel Yahya <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634965.stm> had assisted in some of the preparation of the failed attack, and locating stores where chemicals could be purchased. He was sentenced on November <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2814128.ece> 5, 2007 to six years and nine months jail after he admitted "collecting information useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". Today's Convictions News on the jail terms handed out to five men for assisting the 7/21 plotters is carried by the Telegraph <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/05/nterror105. xml> , Press <http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4kxNFIIxVkYexBPZJ3i1iFcagqA> Association, BBC <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7226425.stm> , the Times <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3305274.ece> , Reuters <http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0416306620080204> , Agence-France <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBRNDdMyDx7bkcIMsEi2vaRAF-YQ> Presse, the Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7280352,00.html> , Bloomberg <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=agroKe.ADPG8&refer=uk> , the Independent <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/men-provided-vital-support-to-21 7-bombers-777894.html> , Associated <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hw-wWQJYqGkItJ1pSENfpVju2HtgD8UJKOB00> Press and the Evening <http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23435690-details/Tube+terror +gang+guilty/article.do> Standard. Additional background information is provided by the Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2252328,00.html> , BBC <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7226715.stm> and the Times <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3305996.ece> . jailed men <http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/02/04/com posite2.jpg> The men jailed today are (from left to right): Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali (12 years), Ismail Abdurahman (10 years), Wahbi Mohammed (17 years), Muhedin Ali (7 years) and Abdul Waxid Sherif (10 years). The men, all born in Africa, had been on trial at Kingston Crown Court. The trial concluded its four-month duration today. They were cumulatively convicted on 22 charges of failing to disclose information about terrorism and assisting an offender. They had provided safe houses and food for the fugitive bombers. One of them - Abdul Waxid Sherif - had provided his own passport to his brother Hussain Osman, allowing him to flee to Italy. According to Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke of the Metropolitan Police, who heads Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism division, said of the convicted men in a statement: "Two of the men jailed today knew about these plans yet, despicably, failed to alert the authorities. Even after the attacks they helped the bombers evade capture, despite an appeal for assistance from the public. By helping the bombers escape immediate capture they contributed to the public's fear of terrorism at that time." Judge Paul Worsley said today: "I have no doubt that you were each prepared to aid ruthless men and that, in doing so, each of you must have harboured the hope that the bombers would ultimately be successful in their mission to destroy society as we know it, instil fear in its ranks and bring division among peace-loving people." Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali A friend of the failed bombers, he lived in an apartment above Yassin Omar in Curtis House, New Southgate. He had once been part of the same foster family as Yassin Omar. In 1993, Yassin Omar had been fostered by Steven Lamb and his partner, the late Bernice Campbell. Even during fostering, Yassin Omar had rebelled against the boundaries set by Ms Campbell. Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali, aged 32, was also a close friend of Muktar Said Ibrahim, the leader or "emir" of the cell. Ibrahim had a key to Ali's apartment and often stayed there. Ali had also allowed other members of the cell to stay with him when they could not stand the fumes created by the explosive concoction that was being prepared in Yassin Omar's apartment. The jury decided that Ali had known about the plot before it was due to be carried out, but had failed to inform the authorities. In Ali's home, handwritten documents were found by police. These related to the construction of the bombs. They had been ripped up and thrown in a waste bin. One scrap bore the words "Allah", "charge" and "detonator". On a notepad in his apartment, Ali's fingerprints had been found. One page of the notebook carried Arabic words, which read: "Steps to Martyrdom." Police retrieved a business card from Pak Cosmetics. This was the store in Finsbury Park (a short train ride from New Southgate) from where the hydrogen peroxide had been purchased. He was given a 12-year sentence. Ismail Abdurahman 25-year old Ismail Abdurahman lived in Vauxhall, south London. He allowed Hussain Osman to stay with him at his home immediately before he fled to Italy. Osman left Britain on July 26, taking a Eurostar train from Waterloo station. Abdurahman was an administrative assistant at a lawyers' office. Unlike the other convicted individuals, he had apparently not known the suicide cell before the events of July 21, 2005. He was seen on CCTV meeting Hussain Osman at Clapham Junction station. He also rerieved a video camera and passport for Hussain Osman. This camera was found in Rome, minus its memory card, and was thought to have been used to record suicide "farewell" messages. On the Eurostar train, Hussain called Abdurahman on his mobile phone. Abdurahman had asked Hussain Osman why he had tried to blow up a Shepherd's Bush tube train, and had been told: "It's only right to kill myself in the name of Allah." Abdurahman was given a 10-year jail sentence. Wahbi Mohammed 25-year old Somali-born Wahbi Mohammed is the brother of Ramzi Mohammed. He had been at his brother's North Kensington home on the morning of the failed attacks. He took from there a suicide letter which had been written by Ramzi Mohammed to his wife and children. Wahbi Mohammed had also taken from the apartment a video camera upon which there was allegedly a video farewell message from Ramzi Mohammed. It was suggested by counter terrorism police that if the bombing had been successful, Wahbi Mohammed would have distributed copies of the video on the internet. When he learned that the suicide attack had failed, he tore up the farewell note (which was later pieced together by investigators) and disposed of the video, which was not recovered. He had taken his brother's suicide note to another of the convicted men, Muhedin Ali. When Muktar Ibrahim and Ramzi Mohammed were hiding in the latter's apartment at Dalgarno Gardens, Wahbi Mohammed brought them food and also a new mobile phone. This phone was used by Ramzi Mohammed to contact Hussain Osman. Wahbi Mohammed was given a 17-year jail sentence. Muhedin Ali 29-year old Muhedin Ali lived in Ladbroke Grove, West London. He was a close friend of Hussain Osman and his wife Yeshiemebet Girma. He was also close to Ramzi and Wahbi Mohammed, with whom he often played soccer. On the night before the failed attack, Hussain Osman gave Muhedin Ali jihadist material, mostly in the form of audio cassettes. On July 21, 2005, Wahbi Mohammed had brought him the suicide note made by Ramzi Mohammed. He stored this in a cupboard in the hallway of his home. He also offered Hussain Osman a safe home in the aftermath of the failed attacks. Police took records of several phone conversations between Ali, Osman and Ramzi and Wahbi Mohammed. Muhedin Ali received a 7-year jail term. Abdul Waxid Sherif passport <http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44403000/jpg/_44403688_passportsherif _203_met.jpg> 30-year old Somali-born Abdul Sherif lived in Brixton, south London. He is the brother of Hussain Osman. The two men have facial similarities, which is why Hussain Osman was able to use Sherif's passport to flee Britain. After the attacks of July 7 which killed 52 innocent people, Sherif celebrated in a pub, where he was said to be euphoric. He showed the pub landlord a text message. This read: "It has to be like this." Records of phone conversations showed he had been in contact with Hussain Osman after the attacks, when Osman had been in both London and also when he had fled to Italy. 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