FACTBOX - The 21/7 London bomb plotters

Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:23pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Four men were found guilty on Monday of plotting botched suicide bombings on London's transport system on July 21, 2005. They will be sentenced later.

The jury is considering verdicts against two other men accused of the same charges.

Here are some details about the convicted men:

MUKTAH SAID IBRAHIM:

Ibrahim, the plot's ringleader and self-confessed bomb-maker, was born in Eritrea and came to Britain in the 1990s when he was a teenager to escape the war with Ethiopia.

He tried to set off a bomb on a bus near Bank underground train station in London's financial district. He claimed he had changed his mind on the day and that it had gone off by mistake.

Ibrahim became a practising Muslim in 2003 and by 2004 he regularly distributed Islamic literature in central London and was arrested on Oxford Street in London's main shopping district for a public order offence.

Prosecutors said he had undergone terrorism training in Sudan in 2003 although he said he had been visiting relatives.

The court was also told he had gone to Pakistan in December 2004 to take part in jihad or train for it.  Continued...

 
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