Muslims reflect on London bombings
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-16 07:20

News reports that cited 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, North Carolina, 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 on 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.

Trafalgar is about two kilometres from Tavistock Square, where Hasib Hussain, 18, allegedly set off the bomb that killed 14 people aboard the bus. That blast occurred nearly an hour after three London Underground trains blew up, and investigators do not yet know what Hussain did during that hour or when he boarded the bus.

Trying to map out Hussain's movements, police appealed for information from anyone who may have seen him in or around King's Cross station, where the four suspects parted ways.

They released a closed-circuit television image showing him wearing a large camping-style backpack as he strode through a train station in Luton, outside London, about two and a half hours before he allegedly blew up the No 30 bus. He had a mustache and wore jeans, a white shirt, and a dark zip-up top or jacket.