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Bombing mastermind identified: report
July 14, 2005 - 9:04AM
British police have identified the man thought to be the mastermind of last week's London bombings in which at least 52 people died, a newspaper reported today.
The British-born man in his 30s, of Pakistani origin, arrived at a British port last month and left the country again the day before Thursday's attacks, The Times reported.
The suspected suicide bombers were also Britons of Pakistani origin.
According to The Times, security sources say they believe the mastermind was involved with previous terrorist operations and had links with followers of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda extremist group in the US.
It was believed he had visited the bombers in their home city of Leeds, and also identified targets on the London Underground rail 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 bombs, three of which went off almost simultaneously about 8.50am, at the peak of Thursday morning's rush hour.
Police have reportedly switched their investigation towards seeking the mastermind of the attacks since learning that the four bombers killed themselves in the attacks.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said yesterday that the aim was now "to attack the people who are driving, organising and manipulating" bombers.
According to The Times's Thursday edition, police are also seeking a possible fifth member of the bombers' terrorist cell, who was also seen at Luton station, north of London, from where the attackers travelled into the capital.
The man, believed to also be of Pakistani origin, could still be at large in London, the paper said.
Police additionally want to interview an Egyptian-born university lecturer who was teaching in Leeds until a few weeks ago.
His rented house was one of six addresses in and around the city raided by police on Tuesday morning, the report added.
According to The Sun newspaper, the man, whom it named as 33-year-old Magdi El-Nashar, was studying for a biochemistry doctorate at Leeds University and disappeared just before the attacks, it is thought to Egypt.
At least two of the bombers had links to his rented flat, which is one of six addresses in and around Leeds raided by police on Tuesday morning, the report added.
July 14, 2005 - 9:04AM
British police have identified the man thought to be the mastermind of last week's London bombings in which at least 52 people died, a newspaper reported today.
The British-born man in his 30s, of Pakistani origin, arrived at a British port last month and left the country again the day before Thursday's attacks, The Times reported.
The suspected suicide bombers were also Britons of Pakistani origin.
According to The Times, security sources say they believe the mastermind was involved with previous terrorist operations and had links with followers of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda extremist group in the US.
It was believed he had visited the bombers in their home city of Leeds, and also identified targets on the London Underground rail 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 bombs, three of which went off almost simultaneously about 8.50am, at the peak of Thursday morning's rush hour.
Police have reportedly switched their investigation towards seeking the mastermind of the attacks since learning that the four bombers killed themselves in the attacks.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said yesterday that the aim was now "to attack the people who are driving, organising and manipulating" bombers.
According to The Times's Thursday edition, police are also seeking a possible fifth member of the bombers' terrorist cell, who was also seen at Luton station, north of London, from where the attackers travelled into the capital.
The man, believed to also be of Pakistani origin, could still be at large in London, the paper said.
Police additionally want to interview an Egyptian-born university lecturer who was teaching in Leeds until a few weeks ago.
His rented house was one of six addresses in and around the city raided by police on Tuesday morning, the report added.
According to The Sun newspaper, the man, whom it named as 33-year-old Magdi El-Nashar, was studying for a biochemistry doctorate at Leeds University and disappeared just before the attacks, it is thought to Egypt.
At least two of the bombers had links to his rented flat, which is one of six addresses in and around Leeds raided by police on Tuesday morning, the report added.
