U.K. Bomb Probe Focuses on Chemist, Briton(Chemist NC State grad. student)

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By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago



LONDON - British and FBI officials investigating the London terror attacks focused Thursday on an Egyptian-born chemist who studied in the United States and an 18-year-old Briton of Pakistani descent believed to have set off the bomb aboard a red double-decker bus.

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British authorities were seeking a Pakistani Briton with possible ties to al-Qaida followers in the United States, news reports said. They said he may have organized the attacks and chosen the targets, leaving Britain the day before the July 7 bombings.

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FBI agents in Raleigh, N.C., joined the search for the chemist, Magdy Asi el-Nashar, a 33-year-old former North Carolina State University graduate student. The doors were locked Thursday at the building at Leeds University where he recently taught chemistry.

And in a further international development in the inquiry, Jamaica's government said it was investigating a Jamaican-born Briton as one of the bombers.


more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050714/ap_on_re_eu/britain_bombings_13

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1. More about Lindsey Germaine

Jamaican-born bomber from the suburbs of Middle England (...)

Mystery surrounds Germaine; police were uncertain about how he spelt his name and what or how many names he may have used. (...)

Their controllers will have wanted the four to meet, to utter a prayer, strengthen each other’s resolve and synchronise their watches before setting off to London to kill and maim.

Germaine, who is believed to have Islamicised his name after his religious conversion and to have called himself Jamal, was said to have been seen in Leeds with some of the other bombers. He came and went, was introduced as a friend, and is believed to have lived for short periods at a flat at one of the properties being searched in Leeds. (...)

Security sources said last night that they were investigating the likelihood that Germaine first met his Leeds contacts during a trip to a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan.

More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1694965,00.html

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2. Reports in Jamaica

suggest that one of his parents was Jamaican, but he was Briish born. Of course we know well that they're only British, Candian, whatever if they're doing well. Anything bad happens like Ben Johnson and drugs in the 1988 Olympics and then they suddenly become Jamaican. At least Ben was actually born here but he was a Canadian citizen with Canadian gold until the drug test.
Still people here are quiet shocked.

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3. bombers connected to earlier cell arrested last year

ABC News, citing unidentified officials, reported that the attacks were connected to an al-Qaida plot planned two years ago in Lahore, Pakistan. Names on a computer that authorities seized last year from Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, an alleged Pakistani computer expert for al-Qaida, matched a suspected cell of young Britons of Pakistani origin, most of whom lived near Luton, where the alleged suicide bombers met up on their way to London shortly before last week's blasts, according to the report.

Authorities have now discovered ties between Mohammed Sidique Khan one of the July 7 bombers and members of that cell who were arrested last year, ABC said.

FBI agents in Raleigh, N.C., joined the search for the chemist, Magdy Asi el-Nashar, a 33-year-old former North Carolina State University graduate student. The doors were locked Thursday at the building at Leeds University where he recently taught chemistry.

more:http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=940413&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

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