Refugees who tried to wage war on London
Sean O’Neill
Four men who came to Britain as refugees from war-torn African nations and were turned by extremist clerics into suicide terrorists face spending the rest of their lives in jail after being convicted of the 21/7 bombing plot yesterday.
Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussein Osman, 28, were found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to murder by detonating rucksack bombs on Tube trains at Oval, Warren Street and Shepherds Bush and on the top deck of a No 26 bus at Shoreditch.
Their suicide mission – which, the court was told, failed only because of a single error by Ibrahim in making the hydrogen peroxide explosives – came a fortnight after the 7/7 attacks that killed 52-passengers on the London transport network.Two years ago they had created panic in London, forcing commuters to relive the horrors of 7/7. Yet Tube passengers had confronted their would-be murderers and chased them off the trains.
The 21/7 bombers had radically different profiles from the doctors and medical students arrested last week in connection with attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2051274.ece