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April 28, 2009 News

(UK) Key relationship between July 7 leader and al-Qaeda terrorist disclosed
-- Omar Khyam "put the July 7 bombers in touch with al-Qaeda and Khyam
who showed them how to raise the money to fund their plots"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5237610/Key-relationship-between-July-7-leader-and-al-Qaeda-terrorist-disclosed.html

(UK) British trio cleared of helping to plan 7/7 London attacks
-- "Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem are the only
people to have been prosecuted over Britain's first suicide bomb attacks, on July 7, 2005"
-- "Mr Ali, 25, Mr Shakil, 33, and Mr Saleem, 28, admitted that they had
been committed jihadists and had previously attended training camps
in Pakistan. They insisted that they had no knowledge of the planned attacks
on London and said that it was against their faith to attack civilians."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6131365.ece
-- "Objects belonging to each of the men were also found in the flat
used as a bomb factory in the area of Hyde Park, Leeds."
-- "Two of the men, Waheed Ali and Mohammed Shakil, were convicted
of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training after they were
arrested on their way to Manchester airport in 2007."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5235890/Three-cleared-of-helping-July-7-bombers.html
-- "The prosecution alleged they conducted a 'hostile reconnaissance'
of potential targets, claiming it was 'an important first step in what was,
by then, a settled plan to cause explosions in the UK'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/28/july-7-london-bomb-trial

(UK) New anguish of the 7/7 families: Bombers' friends cleared of plotting deadly attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174314/New-anguish-7-7-families-Bombers-friends-cleared-plotting-deadly-attack.html
-- 7/7 bombing acquittals a bitter disappointment
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6131697.ece
-- 7/7 bombings: end of the road
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188768.ece
-- 7/7 bombers could not have acted alone
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188666.ece
-- 7/7 trial: how acquitted trio came to embrace radical cause
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188667.ece
-- 7/7 could have been prevented
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6188525.ece

(UK) Lockerbie bomber begins appeal
-- "Lawyers for the former Libyan agent jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie
plane bombing, in which 270 people were killed, have launched an appeal against his conviction"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25402956-23109,00.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_LOCKERBIE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-28-12-45-29
-- Libya to seek extradition of Lockerbie bomber
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/european_news/Libya-to-seek-extradition-of-Lockerbie-bomber_52056.html

(UK) "Labour woman told she is 'too Jewish' for Muslim voters"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/04/28/labour_woman_told_she_is_too_jewish_for_muslim_voters_sadly_thats_probably_true
-- Related news report: "Ex-Lord Mayor Coun Mahmood Hussain in Labour Party row":
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/04/27/ex-lord-mayor-coun-mahmood-hussain-in-labour-party-row-97319-23492693/

 


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