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Five men found guilty of helping failed London bombers
February 5, 2008
Five men found guilty of helping failed London bombers
color-666">L to R: Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali, Ismail Abdurahman, Wahbi Mohammed, Abdul Sherif and Muhedin Ali
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Jenny Booth
From Times Online (London)
February 4, 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3305274.ece
The brothers of two of the failed London bombers were today among five men found guilty of acting as accomplices to help them evade police in the aftermath of the attacks.
The five assisted the bombers by providing safe houses and passports, clothing and food, while they were on the run after their abortive attempt to blow up parts of London's transport network on July 21, 2005.
The five - Siraj Ali, 33, from Enfield, north London; Muhedin Ali, 29, from Ladbroke Grove, west London; Ismail Abdurahman, 25, from Lambeth, south London; Wahbi Mohammed, 25, and Abdul Sherif, 30, both from Stockwell, south London - were between them convicted of 22 charges of failing to disclose information about terrorism and assisting an offender.
Siraj Ali and Wahbi Mohammed were also convicted of having prior knowledge of the bomb plot.
The men, including the brothers of bombers Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman, have been standing trial at Kingston Crown Court for the last four months.
The failed bombers Muktah Ibrahim, Hussein Osman, Yassin Omar and Ramzi Mohammed were all found guilty of conspiracy to murder and jailed for life following a six month trial at Woolwich Crown Court last year.
They tried to detonate rucksack bombs packed with high explosives, hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour, on Tubes at Shepherd's Bush, Warren Street and Oval stations and on a bus at Shoreditch High Street.
Each device failed to explode, sparing London a repeat of the 7/7 attacks which killed more than 50 people just two weeks earlier.
The jury heard that all five defendants were originally from Africa but had been living in London for some years.
Max Hill, for the prosecution, said that they all "lent active assistance" to the bombers after the doomed attacks, and failed to report what they knew to police as required by law.
In addition it was alleged that all, apart from Abdurahman, also had prior knowledge of the events of July 21 but did not bring it to the attention of the authorities.
Abdul Sherif was Osman's brother and was in contact with him in the run up to the failed attacks. Mr Hill said that Sherif's behaviour before the events of 21/7 "demonstrated sympathy towards and knowledge of the planned attacks".
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