Muslim trio cleared over 7/7 attacks

[kbo234]

Good job.

Seems people are starting to get the idea about the huge fraud that is the "War On Terror"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7507842.stm

Trio cleared over 7/7 attacks

Three men have been cleared of helping to plan the 7/7 London suicide attacks with an alleged reconnaissance mission.

A jury at Kingston Crown Court found them not guilty of conspiring with the 2005 bombers by organising a trip to find possible targets in London.

Waheed Ali, 25, Sadeer Saleem, 28, and Mohammed Shakil, 32, admitted knowing the bombers - but denied helping them.

The men were originally tried in 2008, but the first jury failed to reach verdicts against them.

Despite being cleared of involvement in the London attacks, Ali and Shakil were found guilty of a second charge of plotting to attend a terrorism training camp in Pakistan at the time of their 2007 arrest. They will be sentenced on Wednesday.

As the verdicts were delivered, Waheed Ali gave a broad smile and Sadeer Saleem wiped his eyes. Mohammed Shakil placed his one hand on the glass partition between the dock and the well of the court and mouthed "thank you" to the jury.

The three men are the only people to face any charges in relation to the 7/7 London bombings.

During the three-month retrial, the jury heard that the trio, all from Leeds and all close friends of the bombers, had been key members of a tight circle around ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan.

All three, the jury was told, shared a violent jihadist ideology.

Prosecutors in both trials had claimed that the men's movements in London mirrored a scouting trip by the bombers and included sites ultimately attacked.

Neil Flewitt QC had told the trial that the case centred on circumstantial evidence which, he argued, created a compelling picture of guilt.

But the trio maintained throughout the trial - and during tense evidence from the witness box - that they ideologically opposed suicide bombings and had been shocked by the attacks.

Counsel for the men told the jury there was no evidence linking them to the bombings and that they were being tried for guilt by association.

Mr Flewitt said a December 2004 trip to London lay at the heart of the case because the three men, accompanied by two of the eventual suicide attackers, had used it to visit a number of possible targets.

'Witch-hunt'

The prosecution said the group's movements bore a "striking similarity" to the final targets.

But the men told the jury that the trip had been organised because Waheed Ali was planning to leave the country for militant training in Pakistan.

He and Sadeer Saleem were going to join the future bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, who had already left.

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[Thermate911]

[TonyGosling]

Hallelujah!

[Pugwash]

Also In the Report..

[Danny]

[frydays]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7507842.stm

Then I read that there is an inquiry plea

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682375-details/Inquir y+plea+after+July+7+verdicts/article.do

What nonsense how can anybody ask for an inquiry about this when there has not been one on what happened on that tragic day ~ 7 July 2005.

If these three have been proved not guilty how can anybody assume that those accused of 7/7 are guilty???

[TonyGosling]

Rachel North rocking and rolling it for an enquiry now live on Newsnight.

[KP50]

[TonyGosling]

The Intelligence And Security Committe report into the fact that some of the alleged 7/7 bombers were under surveillance should now be published forthwith.
Only 'reason' it wasn't was this trial.

[paul wright]

[item7]

Now we know why Tony Blair wanted to abolish trial by jury.

[kbo234]

Two jailed for terror camp plans

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8025325.stm

Seven years in jail for 'intending' to do something??

Holy Moses!

Maybe many of us on this forum could be stuck in a courtroom and our comments be conflated into our having anti-state or 'terrorist' intentions!?

We have seen the law being prepared in the USA for exactly this kind of move, but here......


........the courts are already doing it, aren't they?

.....or is there something I'm missing?

[astro3]

One hundred million pounds! Six months of trial! Just to show that three lads were innocent...

But, I'm puzzled. I thought this Kingston 7/7 trial had charged the three suspects under the 1882 Explosive Substances Act, in respect of which they had allegedly 'conspired to cause explosions...' etc in London. So how come they can suddenly be found guilty of a quite different offence, one which only involves shooting Kalashikovs out in Pakistan? Or rather intending to do this. No explosives were here involved, I believe that they were not trained concerning how to make bombs.
Don't the jury have to be told at the start of tbe trial, what is the charge over which they have to determine innocence or guilt?

[illeagalhunter]

Looks like its time for our own Warren Commision now to complete the while wash

[Pugwash]

Is it known under which parliamentary act was the crime of 'planning to attend a terrorist training camp' brought to the the statute book?