2 February 2011 Last updated at 14:03 GMT
7/7 inquests: 'Pakistan calls to bomber' in days before
Identity card of Mohammad Sidique Khan Thirty-year-old Khan was the oldest of
the bombers and is thought to have taken the lead role
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7 JULY INQUESTS
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* The victims of 7 July
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The ringleader of the 7/7 attacks received bomb-making guidance in phone calls
from Pakistan in the days before, the inquests have heard.
Mobile phone records analysed after the bombings on 7 July 2005 showed calls
made from phone boxes in Rawalpindi to bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan.
Det Sgt Mark Stuart, of the Met police, said he thought these calls had to be
related to the bombings.
Four suicide bombers targeted three Tube trains and a bus, killing 52.
Det Sgt Stuart said one of the calls was made on 2 July, five days before the
deadly bombings, and lasted six minutes.
Hugo Keith QC, counsel to the inquests, asked: "Did you assess that those calls
therefore were probably connected to some guidance or some means of
communicating information concerned with the manufacture of the bombs and then
ultimately their detonation?"
Det Sgt Stuart said: "Yes, I think they had to be."
Many of the phone calls were made from different phone boxes within minutes of
each other, suggesting the caller was intent on concealing their identity,
heard the inquests at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
"I think these call boxes [were] actually [in] shops where there might be a
number of people waiting to use them so he may have moved on for that reason,"
Det Sgt Stuart said.
Police believe Khan gave the Pakistan contacts the numbers for four phones,
used solely in relation to the bombings plot. He never made any calls to
Pakistan himself.
The majority of the phone conversations took place between May and June 2005.
The inquests were told that the last call to Khan was recorded on the afternoon
of 7 July, when the attacks had been "brought to worldwide attention".
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