Reply #15: Profiles of the five men in custody

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The July 21 suspects

Saturday July 30, 2005
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1539300,00.html

Muktar Said-Ibrahim

In 1996 at Wood Green crown court, north London, Ibrahim was jailed for five years for his role in a teenage gang who carried out a series of violent muggings in the Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage areas of Hertfordshire. He served two and a half years in a number of young offenders institutions in south-east England where he was said by friends to have turned to radical Islam.

After leaving prison he is believed to have grown a beard, adopted Islamic dress and become devout


Ramsi Muhammad

He was seen at Stockwell station at 12.25pm on July 21 where he boarded a northbound Northern line train. When his bomb failed to detonate between Stockwell and Oval stations, he got off the train at Oval at 12.35pm. He was captured on CCTV running away from the tube wearing a sweatshirt with the words "New York" on the front. He was chased by at least three commuters. The suspect was last seen at Tindal Street at 12.45pm on July 21. He was traced to west London yesterday where he was arrested with Muktar Said-Ibrahim, the bus bomb suspect.


Yasin Hassan Omar

For the past five years Omar has shared the flat with Muktar Said-Ibrahim, the suspected bus bomber.

Along with Ibrahim, Omar was spotted by a neighbour returning to the flat the day after the failed bomb attacks on July 21.


Hussain Osman

Italy's interior minister said Hussain Osman was a naturalised British citizen, but the Home Office refused to discuss his immigration status yesterday.

The Italian news agency Ansa, citing unidentified sources close to the investigation, said British police had put the Italians on his trail by providing the mobile phone number of his brother-in-law.

It said by monitoring mobile phone conversations between the two, police were able to follow his movements, from England to Milan and Bologna and finally to Rome.