British trio cleared of helping to plan 7/7 London attacks
(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
