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UK bomb suspect arrested in Egypt -report
Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:12 AM ET
By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - An Egyptian chemistry student who may have been involved in last week's London bombings is understood to have been arrested in Cairo, a British police source said on Friday.
Magdy Elnashar, 33, was wanted for questioning over the bomb attacks that killed at least 54 people and injured 700. Media reports said he had left Britain two weeks before Western Europe's first ever suicide bomb attack.
British newspapers said the U.S.-trained chemist had rented one of the houses in the northern English city of Leeds that was raided by police on Tuesday. Large amounts of suspected explosives were seized.
The investigation took on a rapidly widening international dimension with Pakistani intelligence sources saying one of the bombers met in 2003 with a man later arrested for bombing a church in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
Pakistani security agencies are investigating possible links between militant groups based in Pakistan and Shehzad Tanweer, a Briton of ethnic-Pakistani origin who was one of four bombers in the July 7 attack on three trains and a bus.
London police chief Ian Blair said detectives are confident they will find an al Qaeda link to the British bombers.
Warning that another attack is "a strong possibility," Blair said the hunt is now on for the financiers and bomb makers who supplied the young killers in London's deadliest peacetime bomb attack.
Three of the four British-born Muslims, the youngest only 18, came from Leeds.
Media reports that the explosives found there were similar to those used in other al Qaeda-linked attacks were described by Blair as "a reasonably fair picture."
Blair also said it was time for Muslim leaders in Britain to stop being in denial about "lunatic fringe" extremists who convert impressionable youngsters.
"What we expect to find at some stage is that there is a clear al Qaeda link, a clear al Qaeda approach," Blair told BBC Radio.
Describing the bombers who died in the blast as "foot soldiers," Blair said: "What we have got to find is who encouraged them, who trained them, who is the chemist."
The BBC, citing sources close to the investigation, said the explosive found in Leeds was TATP (triacetone triperoxide), made from freely available ingredients.
It said the material is thought to be similar to that used by British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid who tried to blow up a transatlantic flight in 2001 with explosives in his shoes.
Police admit they are puzzled about the last 81 minutes in the life of one of the bombers, Hasib Hussain, captured on grainy CCTV images.
At 7:20 a.m. he was caught on film at Luton station, north of London, wearing a casual jacket and jeans with a bomb in the rucksack on his back. He was seen joking with the three other bombers who then went on to target underground trains.
Police are still baffled about why he may have changed his original target and instead blew up a bus.
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