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Report: UK blast mastermind identified
Thursday 14 July 2005, 3:03 Makka Time, 0:03 GMT
British police have identified the man thought to be the mastermind of last week's bombings in London in which at least 52 people died.
It was believed he had visited the bombers in their home city of Leeds, and also identified targets on the London Underground railway system, where three of the four bombs exploded, the paper said.
Security sources also said he was likely to have trained the recruits in how to trigger their rucksack-carried bombs, three of which went off almost simultaneously at around 8.50am (0750 GMT), at the peak of Thursday morning's rush hour.
Anglo-French dispute
The bombers' background became the subject of a row between London and Paris, with Charles Clarke, the British interior minister, denying comments by his French counterpart that British police had arrested some of the suspects in the past.
"I cannot believe it. He wasn't into politics at all, so what drove him to do it? It can't be him, it must be something else behind him"
Bashir Ahmed, uncle of bombing suspect Shehzad Tanweer
"It is completely and utterly untrue. I am absolutely staggered he should make that assertion," Clarke told Sky TV.
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english.aljazeera.net
Thursday 14 July 2005, 3:03 Makka Time, 0:03 GMT
British police have identified the man thought to be the mastermind of last week's bombings in London in which at least 52 people died.
It was believed he had visited the bombers in their home city of Leeds, and also identified targets on the London Underground railway system, where three of the four bombs exploded, the paper said.
Security sources also said he was likely to have trained the recruits in how to trigger their rucksack-carried bombs, three of which went off almost simultaneously at around 8.50am (0750 GMT), at the peak of Thursday morning's rush hour.
Anglo-French dispute
The bombers' background became the subject of a row between London and Paris, with Charles Clarke, the British interior minister, denying comments by his French counterpart that British police had arrested some of the suspects in the past.
"I cannot believe it. He wasn't into politics at all, so what drove him to do it? It can't be him, it must be something else behind him"
Bashir Ahmed, uncle of bombing suspect Shehzad Tanweer
"It is completely and utterly untrue. I am absolutely staggered he should make that assertion," Clarke told Sky TV.
© 2003 - 2005 Aljazeera
english.aljazeera.net