4 Found Guilty Of 2005 London Bomb Plot

Men Convicted Of Trying To Blow Up Trains And A Bus Two Weeks After Deadly July 7 Attacks

(CBS/AP)  Four men were found guilty Monday of plotting to bomb London's public transport system on July 21, 2005, two weeks after a coordinated suicide bombing attack on the network killed 52 commuters.

The jury was still deliberating on two co-defendants — Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34; and Adel Yahya, 24 — but decisions were not expected Monday.

The men were accused of attempting to detonate explosives-laden backpacks on three subway trains and a bus in a mirror image of the July 7, 2005 attacks. The devices — made from a volatile mix of hydrogen peroxide and flour — failed to explode, and no one was injured.

All six suspects denied the charges, saying the devices were duds and their actions a protest against the Iraq war.

The verdicts, which follow a six-month trial, come days after police uncovered a plot to detonate car bombs in London's entertainment district and two men rammed a flaming Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow International Airport. Interpol complained Monday that the U.K. was not sharing enough information on terror suspects with the world law enforcement body. (Read more)

Convicted of conspiracy to murder were Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29; Yassin Omar, 26; and Ramzi Mohammed, 25. Several hours later the jury returned another guilty verdict against Hussain Osman, 28, accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a third subway train.

Judge Adrian Fulford told the jury of nine women and three men after their initial three verdicts that he would accept 10-2 majority verdicts on the other three defendants.

The explosives were packed in plastic tubs, with screws, bolts and other pieces of metal taped to the outside as shrapnel. The detonators contained triacetone triperoxide (TATP), an explosive used by the July 7 bombers.

Omar and Mohammed set off their devices aboard two subway trains; a couple of hours later Ibrahim's device failed aboard a double-decker bus.

Police said scientific tests on the devices proved they were all viable. They do not know why they failed. However, British media reported that constructing a functional bomb using the chosen materials would require considerable chemistry knowledge and precision.

During the trial, Asiedu turned on the others and claimed Ibrahim, the gang's self-proclaimed leader, had wanted the attacks "to be bigger and better" than the July 7 bombs.

The botched plot rattled a city already shaken by the July 7 attacks, as Scotland Yard detectives launched the biggest manhunt in British history.

Much of the prosecution's case was based on eyewitness testimony and closed circuit television footage from the targeted subway cars and bus.

In one of the most chilling pieces of footage, Mohammed attempts to detonate his charge with his backpack facing a mother and young child. Moments later, passengers are seen running to the other side of a carriage, while an off duty firefighter, Angus Campbell, confronts Mohammed.

A day after the failed attacks, police shot dead a Brazilian electrician aboard a Tube train after mistaking him for one of the bombers.

Police said they were under enormous pressure to capture the men, uncertain over whether they would try again and anxious to avoid a repeat of the aftermath of the hunt for terrorists responsible for the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Then, suspects killed a police officer and themselves when they exploded booby traps as police stormed their hideout.

Giving evidence in the trial, a specialist firearms officer, identified only as PC 7512, described how he almost shot Omar dead when he found him standing in a bathtub, fully clothed and wearing a backpack.

"In all honesty, I still don't know to this day how I did not shoot him," said the officer, describing how his Heckler and Koch carbine submachine gun was trained on Omar's head.

Police believe the planning for the attack started after Ibrahim returned to Britain from a trip to Pakistan in March 2005. He was in the country at the same time as two of the July 7 bombers — Shezhad Tanweer and Mohammed Sidique Khan — but officials do not know if they ever met.

They believe the transit system was not the original target, but was chosen following the successful attacks two weeks earlier. Their original target is unknown.

[gunnerv1]

Prinzowhales=JEW HATER

[lars008-2009]

"When they came to arrest the Jews, I did not say any thing. I am not a Jew.
When they came to arrest the communists, I did not say anything. I am not a communist.
When they came to arrest the socialists, I did not say anything. I am not a socialist.
When they came to arrest the homosexuals, gypsies, mentally retarded, etc. I did not say anything, I am none of the above.
When they came to arrest me, there was no one to speak for me."

when they came for
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/3

is youtube pro terrorislam???
http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_856841_Michelle_Malkin_Video_Banned_on_Youtube.htm

[lars008-2009]

Education is the key. Let our children learn to co-exist and we might one day have peace.
RealHelter

that's not going to happen with:

FASCIST NAZI ISLAM TO ENSLAVE NON MUSLIM WORLD

HAMAS MICKEY MOUSE SAYS
Islamic rule will benefit Christians and Jews
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 14, 2007
The force behind Hamas TV%u2019s controversial Mickey Mouse clone said today that his children%u2019s television program will continue to promote worldwide Islamic supremacy, for everyone's benefit, including Christians and Jews.
In a long interview on Hamas TV, Hazim Al-Sha%u2019arawi, Deputy Director of Al-Aqsa TV and one of the creators of the Hamas children%u2019s TV show Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers, said that using the program to promote Islamic rule over other religions is actually promoting %u201Cjustice, goodness and world love.%u201D
Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Authority have been under fire since PMW reported last week that Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers was using a character named Farfur, a knockoff of Disney%u2019s Mickey Mouse character, to convey messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews, Israel and the U.S. Despite public statements by PA Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the air until it could be reviewed and revised, a new episode of the program %u2013 featuring Al-Sha%u2019arawi as one of the hosts %u2013 ran Friday.
http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S995NCeaUg

[Helter99]

Yes, we have terrorists in the UK. We live with terrorist threats all the time. We have had terrorists in this country for many, many decades. The used to come in from Ireland. We did not hate the Irish for it, nor did we prevent Irish people entering the country. Irish culture lives happily and peacefully alongside Indian, African, Caribbean and Arabic cultures. We have Mosques, Temples and Churches next to each other. Minarets reach for the same heavens as church spires. In a multicultural society, as we have here, tolerance is key. I am prod to live in a country that can embrace multiculturalism, even though the coutry is not my own. Problems? Of course. It is human nature to be suspicious of what you are not used to. But one thing we know is that knee-jerk reactions are not going to solve anything. Problems do not go away because you give them a good beating. Problems have to be worked at, analysed, understood, overcome. Terrorism is a problem. Understand it and its causes. Work at the disease, not the symptom.

Education is the key. Let our children learn to co-exist and we might one day have peace.

[Helter99]

Hahaha. Is anyone posting here over the age of 15? Nazi Terrorslam.. That's great. How long did it take you to come up with that one? Could you even find Iraq or the UK on a world map? Oop, how could you? My bad, I forgot that US world maps end at the US borders. Psst, did you realise USA is not actually in a democracy at all? By not educating you in the workings of other countries, cultures and ideologies your government is actually keeping you from forming your own political ideas and ideals. Its a tyranny by non-education. If you knew more about the world and how it works you might one day pull your heads out of your butts realise that the world is not an evil place and try to help save it. Instead you are isolating yourselves as a nation, breeding and nurturing your suspicions and paranoia and when you see something you don't understand, you dont like it and you do your utmost to destroy it. Wake up and smell the coffee America!

[xzavierbrown]

Yes those terrorists are mentally-ill people and killers and their actions are never justified. But why before UK entered war on Iraq nothing happened in there and nobody tried to hurt UK. If UK really wants to solve this problem then withdraw from Iraq and problem solved. Isn't easier and less costly than spending all these money on anti-terror activities.
Posted by wise80 at 06:00 PM : Jul 09, 2007
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because withdrawing to any effort, may it be iraq or wherever is not a solution BUT A SIGNAL OF SURRENDER. Just like Jimmy Carter, you pretty much signaled that terrorism works. You have to understand that we are at war with RADICAL ISLAM, you TRY TO STOP THEM FROM KILLING from any part of the globe, you would see an unpleasant reaction from its followers.

[wise80]

Yes those terrorists are mentally-ill people and killers and their actions are never justified. But why before UK entered war on Iraq nothing happened in there and nobody tried to hurt UK. If UK really wants to solve this problem then withdraw from Iraq and problem solved. Isn't easier and less costly than spending all these money on anti-terror activities.

[oakishpines]

' ... if the capitalists are busy billing folk for lunch and keeping receipts, does that mean the communitsts are busy keeping a receipt everytime someone is denied a lunch for lack of funding? ... or are thaey too busy in the real world to care? ... '

[lars008-2009]

liberals lead The Chorus of Useful Idiots

Leftist Support of Islamist Terror
Most shocking is the outright sympathy of many leftist-liberals for Islamic fascism. They said little about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some Arab savage at Abu Ghraib prison wore a bag on his head. They cared nothing about the beheadings committed by the Islamo-savages or the execution of 12 Nepalese. David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist, I call them Leftist-Liberals. I'm a classical Liberal myself and I feel it's time to remove this irrational element that has been allowed to poison our good name.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/list.htm
The Chorus of Useful Idiots
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/thornton.htm
Supporters of Muslim Terrorism on the un-Religious Left
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index1.htm
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/left_islam.htm
Definitions, Lies, and Losing Your Head
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/def_lies.htm
Shocking (Liberal) Silence
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/leftist_silence.htm
See no evil: Why the Left is blind to suffering
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/no_evil.htm
When is violent speech still free speech?
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/speech.htm

[xzavierbrown]

"All six suspects denied the charges, saying the devices were duds and their actions a protest against the Iraq war."

man these terrorist really DO UNDERSTAND and really IS USING and ABUSING THAT WEAK LIBERAL MINDSET THAT IS POISONING OUR SOCIETY. Who needs bombs when you have liberals

[lars008-2009]

has there ever been a fascist nazi terrorislamic mullah cleric that was a suicide bomber???

[infidel_us]

Homegrown is still the biggest threat and they are from the radical right.
Posted by Nancy_Naive at 01:46 PM : Jul 09, 2007

GAWD! Please tell me you're not old enough to vote.

[infidel_us]

WDRussell1,

Why don't you move there? In London, they have 1 camera for every 14 people. They can arrest you and hold you for 60 days WITHOUT charging you and all it takes is the policeman's "reasonable suspician." Maybe these scum will be taken out back and hanged by the end of the day.

So quit whining. They'll get a military trial.

[lars008-2009]

it's fascist nazi terrorislam stupid...

look who is targeting civilians all over the planet... FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM...

Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907

Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp

But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.

"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.

Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.

The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108

[effallah]

Those terrorists should be castrated and feed them to the pigs.

UK, USA and others should expel all muslims & muhammad a$$ kissers back to the middle east--specifically saudi arabia. Back to where the roots of all the problems that exit in the world today. muhammad is the root of all, that ****** bandit woke up one day from his nap and said he saw and talked to god. What a crock! All you muslims, wake up, there is no allah, you all been brain-washed and believe in something that does not exist.

[prinzowhales]

The British government plays host to numerous terrorist organizations--as does Canada. It doesn't matter to the rulers of Britain--they're protected...they don't take the underground... besides, they may need these organizations to undermine a regime somewhere that doesn't play ball.

The fact that British intelligence was behind numerous fatal IRA bombings shows just how dedicated HM's regime is to protecting the lives and property...this foreign, throne-squatting inbred and her vile brood.

If you want real villany from HMs government, just consider Philip's remarks...he wishes he could be reincarnated as a deadly virus reduce the human population. The Zionist press squeals bloody murder over false translations/lies about Ahmadinejad wishing to wipe out Israel what about this lunatic Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, head of the World Wildlife Fund.

[gangesdak]

Britain has been too liberal all these years. They always "encouraged" "free thinking" by extreme radical groups. Sikh Khalistanis plotting murder of innocent Indians, merderous Muslim groups planning killing women and children all got safe heaven in UK. What were they thinking? Britain perhaps thought that these plots were against other countries, so they could afford to be "objective". It's not true any more, boys. These "free thinkers" are not for separate bycle paths or for eating more vegetarian food. These are killers. Put them in an anvil and crush them. US is more proactive in this, but we have to do more.

[wdrussell1]

Well what about that? An actual trial.
Those Brits must be anti-Bush.

[gangesdak]

All these Muslims take advantage of the norms of the free world. Could they proclaim themselves innocent so arrogantly in a Muslim country (Saudi Arabia, for example-our beloved ally)? could they avoid a head chopping ceremony in a Muslim country? I think such terorists should be provided with the punishment of the country they came from.

[redfiveuk]

Hospital workers come here without visa checks because the immigration people say they can enter in good faith because of their profession, their qualifications are not even checked out. We have an open door immigration policy allowing anyone from eastern europe to turn up and stay as long as they want and get benefits, nice eh. It turns out up until now we dont even check Interpol%u2019s list of stolen passports before allowing entry in to the UK. We have people working for the gov in the police and home office who are on a watch list of undesirables but we cant sack them or kick them out because that would infringe on there human rights and at the same time we are told to be careful about terrorist in our midst, ohh i nearly forgot the gov is bringing in rules for employment called positive discrimination where minorities will get jobs ahead of natives regardless of qualifications, yes thats right minorities such as Iraqis Iranians and may other Moslem immigrants. Best thing the USA can do is halt all access from the UK to USA because we are governed by incompetent fools and we are imploding with ill thought out Political correct policies that we never ever want or votes for/against.