Egyptian arrested of Cairo over london bombing

update:

'SUSPECT HELD IN EGYPT'

A man who allegedly made the bombs used in the London attacks has reportedly been detained in Egypt.

American television company ABC said the man, believed to have had a central role in making the explosive devices, had been held near Cairo and was being questioned.


'Good Morning America' said authorities believed the man had left Britain two weeks before the London explosions on July 7.

www.sky.com...

[edit on 15-7-2005 by infinite]

I assume this was posted before the arrest was announced. heh. But here's a little more.

www.cnn.com...

ABC is the network that is reporting the arrested. Skynews are waiting to confirm it

The ticker on the BBC news website says that *sources have confirmed this*

According to this BBC report a flat of an Egyptian Chemistry student is being searched in Leeds.

Looks more and more like a massive failure of the intelligence services.

Is this the guy that may have studied in North Carolina:

edition.cnn.com...

This could be a link to 9/11, I think some of the 9/11 terrorists were at that university at the same time this guy was.

Originally posted by hands
The ticker on the BBC news website says that *sources have confirmed this*

According to this BBC report a flat of an Egyptian Chemistry student is being searched in Leeds.

Looks more and more like a massive failure of the intelligence services.

This group is believed to have worked under the radar, so to speak, not even GCHQ and NSA picked this up. CIA have checked their intelligence and had nothing on this. No one knew of this, which is alarming.

This is what I've read in (hebrew) newspapers :

The 33-year-old Egypt-born is named Magdy el-Nashar.
He was doing a PhD bio-chemistry course (and also worked as a teacher there) at the University of Leeds in northern England *).
He had rented a flat at 18 Alexandra Grove, Burley, Leeds .
His telephone number was found on Hasib Hussain's (one of the bombers) mobile.
He is thought to have handed over his flat to the gang - possibly to the 'fifth man' - before vanishing days before the bombings.

edit:

*) You can find such a name on the namelist of the University of Leads ( - but only in google cache , maybe it has been deleted from the official lists)

Magdy M.M. Elnashar


Postgraduate in the School of Biochemistry and Microbiology
[...]

Biochemistry and Microbiology

Research Summary

Development of Novel Matrices for the Immobilisation of Enzymes for Biotechnology

Rebekka



[edit on 15-7-2005 by Riwka]

Riwka

nice found !

ill edit it and cover up the e-mail, just incase someone decides to e-mail him with hate mail. i know its silly, but his e-mail will be watched and if someone mails him, their door is getting knocked down by the anti-terrorist branch

Originally posted by infinite

This group is believed to have worked under the radar, so to speak, not even GCHQ and NSA picked this up. CIA have checked their intelligence and had nothing on this. No one knew of this, which is alarming.

Infinite - It is alarming that there are would be bombers/killers running around loose in the world that we don't know anything about, but then how could anyone know before people such as these have done anything wrong?

Originally posted by Astronomer68


Infinite - It is alarming that there are would be bombers/killers running around loose in the world that we don't know anything about, but then how could anyone know before people such as these have done anything wrong?

Was it last night or the night before where the BBC interviewed a *friend* of one of three bombers in Leeds and he said that it 'was' known (in the community at least) that this man was going to Pakistan and Afghanistan on a regular basis and that when the man talked in private, the politics was that of Radical Islam (although not in public). As soon as he realised that the man was a suspect - he reported these things to the police, and of course said he had nio idea the man would take it as far as he did. I can't believe that the families of these individuals didn't notice anything suspicious...

Originally posted by hands
I can't believe that the families of these individuals didn't notice anything suspicious...

i dont believe that at all,
how can a family not notice anything odd when their 18 year son was travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan? heck, he might of been younger if he was travelling a year or two ago.

Part of the rationale behind drafting the Patriot Act was to discover & detain individuals like the London bombers, as well as discover any sources of their funding, etc. The primary problem is that there are way to many people in the world to monitor, on anything like a close enough basis, to discover any planned wrongdoing before hand. And you'de be a fool not to think that a lot of racial profiling goes on in deciding who to monitor and when.

Found some work by him aswell, been searching around and seeing what i can dig up

seggau2004.uni-graz.at...

and he was a member here

enterprisefellows.com...

[edit on 15-7-2005 by infinite]

Sky news just reported that the bombs were "chemical based" home-made bombs of "acetone peroxide" - same as the ones found in the flat in Leeds rented by the guy in Egypt to the 4th bomber.

The investigation seems to be progressing very quickly.

Originally posted by infinite

their 18 year son was travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan

The Boston Globe reports, “Tanweer went to Lahore, Pakistan, this year to study the Islamic religion“.



The madrassas (very radical religious schools) run by LT (banned Sunni Muslim terrorist group www.fas.org..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Lashkar-e-Taiba / www.terrorism.net..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (army of the righteous) - which also operates under the name Jamaat ud-Daawa (the party of preaching) is based in Muridke (near Lahore).



LT has not only access to munitions and safe houses and has has also been linked with Hamas and Jemaah Islamiyyah, but it also has close ties with al-Qaeda.

(A Palestinian, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn Abu Zubaydah - a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant - was seized in an LT safe house in Faisalabad in March 2002).

Originally posted by Riwka
The Boston Globe reports, “Tanweer went to Lahore, Pakistan, this year to study the Islamic religion“.



The madrassas (very radical religious schools) run by LT (banned Sunni Muslim terrorist group www.fas.org..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Lashkar-e-Taiba / www.terrorism.net..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (army of the righteous) - which also operates under the name Jamaat ud-Daawa (the party of preaching) is based in Muridke (near Lahore).



LT has not only access to munitions and safe houses and has has also been linked with Hamas and Jemaah Islamiyyah, but it also has close ties with al-Qaeda.

(A Palestinian, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn Abu Zubaydah - a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant - was seized in an LT safe house in Faisalabad in March 2002).

thank you very much for that Riwka

ill read though it now

New info just on Sky News - Khan one of the bombers went to the House of Commons last summer at the guest of a Labour MP.

Originally posted by tommyc
New info just on Sky News - Khan one of the bombers went to the House of Commons last summer at the guest of a Labour MP.

ill question that, ill wait for myself to see that confirmed

Yes, there isnt stopping anyone going to the public gallery in the commons and watching, but no one expect MPs is allowed to stand in the house of commons.

i wouldnt be suprised if he watched from the gallery, i know of losts of people who have had tickets to watch.

Originally posted by Riwka

Originally posted by infinite

their 18 year son was travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan

The Boston Globe reports, “Tanweer went to Lahore, Pakistan, this year to study the Islamic religion“.



The madrassas (very radical religious schools) run by LT (banned Sunni Muslim terrorist group www.fas.org..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Lashkar-e-Taiba / www.terrorism.net..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (army of the righteous) - which also operates under the name Jamaat ud-Daawa (the party of preaching) is based in Muridke (near Lahore).



LT has not only access to munitions and safe houses and has has also been linked with Hamas and Jemaah Islamiyyah, but it also has close ties with al-Qaeda.

(A Palestinian, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn Abu Zubaydah - a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant - was seized in an LT safe house in Faisalabad in March 2002).

Reuters India has some more information on this.

source


[Cleaned up url]

[edit on 15/7/05 by JAK]

Good link TommyC, that information is appreciated.