Three More Charged In 7/21 Attacks

Three more people in Britain have been charged with failing to disclose information about a suspect in London's most recent bombing attempts.

The Metropolitan Police said Shadi Sami Abdel Gadir, 22, Omar Almagboul, 20, and Mohamed Kabashi, 23, were charged under the Terrorism Act for withholding information that they "knew or believed might be of material assistance in securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction" of a terrorist suspect.

The charges bring to six the number of people accused of withholding vital information.

Another eleven people are being held in connection with the July 21 attempts, in which the bombs failed to explode.

CBS News Correspondent Larry Miller reports from London that the three men were arrested in armed raids last Sunday. Police believe the men helped the suspected terrorists after the attempted attacks. Three other people face similar charges, including the wife and sister in law of Hamdi Issac, who was arrested by police in Rome, after fleeing London.

The first person charged, Ismael Abdurahman, 23, from southeast London, appeared in court Thursday to face charges of withholding information that helped suspected subway bomber Hamdi Issac avoid capture.

London police are continuing to detain 12 other suspects without charge.

Police say that in the week after the attack, Abdurahman had information he knew might help police capture suspects involved in "the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism."

He was charged under antiterrorism legislation and is to attend a hearing in London on Thursday.

Weshshiembet Girma, 29, and Muluemebet Girma, 21, of separate addresses in south London, were charged with failing to disclose information that could have helped police secure the arrest, prosecution or conviction of a person involved in terrorism, a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said.

Press Association reported that the women are sisters and that both were arrested on July 27, accused of failing to disclose the required information between July 21 and July 28.

The charges could mark an important step forward for police seeking to build cases against the 17 people in custody in connection with the July 21 assault, in which bombs planted on three subways and a bus failed to fully detonate.

Police also are trying to uncover the larger network that may have supported those attackers, who struck exactly two weeks after four suicide bombers, also on three trains and a bus, and killed 52 victims on July 7.

One of the suspected July 21 bombers, Hamdi Issac, has been charged in Italy with association with the aim of international terrorism. Britain is seeking to extradite him. Italy also has two of Issac's brothers in custody, and Britain is holding 14 suspects.

No suspects are being detained in connection with the July 7 attacks.