Britain Charges 3 More Suspects With Plotting to Bomb Airplanes : lefties hiding ears and eyes between their leggs, cant see and cant hear
By ALAN COWELL
LONDON, Aug. 29 — The British police charged three more people on Tuesday with major terrorism and conspiracy counts after this month’s alert over what the police described as a plot to bomb airliners flying from Britain to the United States.
The charges brought to 11 the number of people accused of conspiring to murder and to bomb airplanes flying to the United States — the most serious charges brought against the suspects embroiled in the alleged conspiracy.
The police announced the charges separately, saying early Tuesday evening that a man identified as Nabeel Hussain had been charged with conspiracy to murder and planning to smuggle ‘‘improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board.’’ As with the other suspects, Mr. Hussain, 22, had earlier been held without charge under British counterterrorism laws.
Several hours later, the police said two men identified as Mohammed Yasar Gulzar and Mohammed Shamin Uddin had been charged with the same offenses. Mr. Gulzar’s name had not previously been made public in the inquiries that led to a huge roundup of suspects on Aug. 10 and set off a terror alert in Britain and the United States.
Most of the names of other people charged with offenses had been on a list released by the Bank of England on Aug. 11 when the bank announced that the assets of 19 people had been frozen. Mr. Uddin, 35, was the oldest person on the list.
Apart from the 11 people facing the most serious charges, three other people — including two of Mr. Hussain’s brothers and Cossar Ali, the wife of another conspiracy suspect — are charged with lesser offenses, including withholding information from the authorities.
Several people have been released without charge since the first arrests on Aug. 10.
The police said late Tuesday that five more suspects remained in prison under counterterrorism laws permitting detention without charge for 28 days. Those laws require the police to seek a judge’s permission every seven days to continue holding suspects. That deadline falls on Wednesday, almost three weeks after the first arrests. |
