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U.K. blasts planned in Pakistan, court told

Sandra Laville

London: Direct links were drawn for the first time on Friday between the July 7 suicide bombings that killed 52 persons in London and the failed Islamist extremist attacks in London two weeks later.

Using footage of the martyrdom videos left by July 7 bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer to illustrate the point, a barrister produced what he said was evidence that the ringleader of the July 21 plot had planned a joint U.K. terror campaign with them while at an Al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan months before the summer of 2005.

Stephen Kamlish, representing one of the six defendants, Manfo Asiedu (33), told the court that Muktar Said Ibrahim, the alleged July 21 ringleader, was in Pakistan at the same time as Khan and Tanweer. The court has heard that Ibrahim was in Pakistan between December 2004 and March 2005. The prosecution claims he was at a jihadi training camp, but Ibrahim claims he was on a three-month holiday with two friends, in which he visited several mosques and the tomb of the founder of Pakistan. —

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

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