Terror Suspect Deported, Arrested

British Police say they arrested a suspected Islamic militant upon his arrival from Zambia following a U.S. request for his extradition.

Harron Rashid Aswat is suspected of being an al Qaeda-linked militant, and is accused of attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.

Zambia announced his deportation to Britain on Sunday. Aswat, a British citizen of Indian descent, had been detained in Lusaka since July 20, where he was benig questioned about 20 phone calls reportedly made on his South African cell phone with some of the bombers responsible for the July 7 transit attacks that killed 56 people in London.

BBC television later showed footage of a plane arriving at Northolt air base in west London. A police van, believed to be carrying Aswat, then drove from the base to Paddington Green police station.

The U.S. warrant accuses Haroon Rashid Aswat of conspiring with others between October 1999 and April 2000 to set up a camp in Bly, Ore., aimed at training and equipping individuals to "fight jihad in Afghanistan," police said in a statement.

Aswat is one of two associates of the Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri who are referred to but not named or charged in a 2002 indictment issued by a federal grand jury in Seattle against a Muslim convert from the area, officials have said. The other is Oussama Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, who was convicted of weapons violations in Sweden in 2003.

Aswat and Kassir "inspected the proposed jihad training camp at the Bly property ... and they and others participated in firearms training and viewed a video recording on the subject of improvised poisons" in November and December 1999, it said.

British police also charged two additional suspects in the failed July 21 attacks late Sunday. Ibrahim Muktar Said, 27, who is accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed, suspected of attempting the Oval underground train bombing, were arrested in raids in west London on July 29, police said.

They were due to appear in court on Monday along with bombing suspect Yassin Hassan Omar, 24, who is suspected of trying to bomb an underground train near the Warren Street station. He was charged Saturday.

All three July 21 bombing suspects in British police custody have now been charged. A fourth, known both as Osman Hussain and Hamdi Issac, was arrested in Rome and is being held there on international terrorism charges.

The three face charges of conspiracy to commit murder; attempted murder; making or possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury; and conspiracy to use explosives.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Lord Goldmsith's office said the Crown Prosecution Service's head of anti-terrorism would meet with senior Metropolitan Police officers to discuss possible charges against three prominent clerics as part of a crackdown on those the government believes are inciting terrorism.

Clerics Omar Bakri Mohammed, Abu Izzaden and Abu Uzair, have appeared on British television in recent days and a spokeswoman for Lord Goldmsith's office said prosecutors and police would look at remarks made by the three and consider whether they could face charges of treason, incitement to treason, solicitation of murder, or incitement to withhold information known to be of use to police.

Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of Britain's most controversial clerics, has reportedly said since the July 7 attacks that killed 56 people in London that he would not inform police if he knew Muslims were planning another attack and he supports insurgents who attack troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"No decision on charges has been made yet," the attorney general's office spokeswoman said, speaking anonymously because British civil servants are rarely allowed to be quoted by name. "The Crown Prosecution Service will be looking at it to see if any offenses have been committed."

The spokeswoman said prosecutors may also seek access to taped recordings made by an undercover Sunday Times reporter who reportedly recorded members of a radical group praising the suicide bombers as "The Fantastic Four."

The newspaper's story said its reporter spent two months as a "recruit" of the group, the Savior Sect, and described the organization as inciting young British Muslims to become terrorists.

Two British newspapers reported Sunday on a possible Saudi connection to the attacks.

The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer, citing unidentified Saudi security officials, said two al Qaeda operatives in the kingdom made calls, text messages and money transfers to Britain earlier this year. The newspaper said the two — Younis al-Hayari and Karim al-Majati — since had been killed in separate gun battles.

British police have not made any firm links between the bombers and foreign militants, although they are pursuing international links — to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Zambia — as they hunt for possible conspirators.

The Telegraph quoted Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador in London, as saying Saudi officials gave Britain information several months ago "of a heightened expectancy of attacks on London."

He said authorities were examining "some telephone conversations between some of these terrorist suspects and people in Saudi Arabia."

The prince told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday it would be premature to say al-Majati and al-Hayari were connected to the London bombings. But he said their involvement was "under investigation by both your security forces and our security forces."

Police have charged six people with failing to disclose information about the four men's whereabouts. A further nine are being questioned in connection with the attacks.