Saudi Arabian Link To Britain Attacks?

[Annie]

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/n...ml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/31/ixportaltop.html

Police investigate Saudi link to London attacks
By Andrew Alderson, David Harrison and Bruce Johnston in Rome
(Filed: 31/07/2005)

London under attack

Scotland Yard is investigating evidence that the two waves of terrorist attacks on London this month may have been masterminded from Saudi Arabia.

The Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist squad has learnt that Hussain Osman, 27, one of the suspects for the second failed attacks, called a number in Saudi Arabia hours before his arrest in Rome on Friday. He was believed to be making only the most vital calls because he feared his mobile phone was being tracked by investigators.

An Italian police officer holds up photographs of Hussain Osman

In an unconfirmed development, the Saudi Arabian authorities are understood to be investigating the possibility that the attacks were planned by extremists there.

Senior officials at Scotland Yard believe there are no links in Britain between the two cells responsible for the July 7 bombings which killed 56 people and the failed suicide attacks two weeks later. But one senior source said that the anti-terrorist squad is investigating links between the two cells and "foreign camps" of terrorists.

They are also inquiring into claims that, like the July 7 bombers, some of the July 21 attackers travelled extensively abroad shortly before the attacks. Police believe that although the July 21 terrorists expected to die, they made plans in case the bombs failed or their mission was aborted.

One security official said: "Most of the suspects did not use mobile phones registered to them and neither did they use land lines. Therefore they must have had some sort of contingency plan and probably had help from sympathisers. This tells us that they must have had some training, so the question now is by whom and where did they receive that training...."

 

[Annie]

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London Police Nab 7 More in Blasts Probe

By CATHERINE McALOON, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 18 minutes ago

Police arrested seven people in southern England on Sunday in connection with the failed July 21 London transit bombings and reportedly were investigating the attackers' ties to Saudi Arabia and Italy.

Police made the arrests during raids on two properties in Brighton, on the coast, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said, providing no other details.

In northern Italy, police took a second brother of a main suspect into custody for questioning Sunday, the Italian news agency ANSA said. Another brother of Osman Hussain, also known as Hamdi Issac, was detained Friday.

Sunday's arrests follow dramatic raids earlier this week in London and Rome that netted the four men police believe tried to set off bombs in three subway trains and a bus July 21, two weeks after the deadly July 7 attacks.

Police were searching for those who may have recruited and directed the bombers and built the explosives, while also looking for links between the two terror cells, one made up mostly of Britons of Pakistani descent, the other mainly of east African-born Britons.

In Rome, investigators were interrogating Hussain, 27, an Ethiopian-born British citizen suspected of trying to bomb the Shepherd's Bush subway station in west London.

Hussain was arrested Friday at a Rome apartment reportedly belonging to a brother after police traced calls he made on a relative's cell phone. His brother Remzi Issac also was detained. Britain has requested Hussain's extradition for questioning, and an initial hearing was held Saturday.

His attorney, Antonietta Sonnessa, said no formal charges had been filed against Hussain, adding that he was likely to fight extradition.

A second brother, identified as Fati Issac, was detained Sunday in the northern Italian town of Brescia on suspicion of destroying documents sought by investigators, ANSA said.

Police discovered that Hussain called Saudi Arabia hours before his arrest, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, and the Sunday Times said another bombing suspect went on a monthlong visit to Saudi Arabia in 2003, telling friends he was to undergo training there....



Associated Press writer Frances D'Emilio contributed to this report from Rome.

 

[colehart]

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I've never thought they were innocent when it came to terrorism!

 

[Annie]

I've never thought they were innocent when it came to terrorism!

Did any non-Muslim?

 

[colehart]

Did any non-Muslim?

Evidently "our" government. They are doing nothing to help stop them from funding it.

 

[Annie]

Evidently "our" government. They are doing nothing to help stop them from funding it.

I agree, it's way past time to get 'tough' with the Saudis.