Gestapo Watch - freed 7/7 widow demands full enquiry

[TonyGosling]

The racist police harassment of these three people already bereaved is over, at least for now.....


3 Suspects Freed in London Transit Attacks

By ALAN COWELL
Published: May 16, 2007

LONDON, May 15 — The British police on Tuesday released three of four people arrested a week ago in connection with the London bombings of 2005, including the widow of one of the bombers.

The July 7 attack, in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people, was London’s bloodiest peacetime atrocity. It was initially ascribed by the authorities to homegrown Muslim extremists acting alone.

Since then, though, two of the attackers have been linked to people involved in a separate terrorist conspiracy, which the police thwarted with arrests in 2004. In both plots, leading figures were said by the authorities to have visited Pakistan for training.

In a statement on Tuesday night, a police spokesman said the three people, all released without being charged, were a 30-year-old man, a 29-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man.

The older man and the woman had been arrested in West Yorkshire — the home area of three of the July 7 bombers — and the younger man in the West Midlands. The spokesman did not identify them by name.

The three people freed Tuesday had been held under counterterrorism laws permitting the police to detain suspects for up to 28 days without charge. But the police must seek regular judicial approval to keep suspects in detention. The spokesman said a fourth man, age 34, also detained a week ago, was still in custody.

The people arrested on May 9 included Hasina Patel, 29, who was married to Mohammad Sidique Khan, regarded by the police as the leader of the suicide bombers.

Mr. Khan said in a video released after his death that he was a “soldier” fighting for Islam. He and another bomber, Shehzad Tanweer, were said in recent court testimony to have been known to the security services more than a year before the July 7 attack.

The other people arrested May 9 were Khalid Khaliq, 34 — who lived on the same street as Mr. Tanweer — and Arshad Patel, 30, the brother of Ms. Patel. Imran Motala, 22, was arrested in the West Midlands.

The four were suspected of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism related to the July 7 bombings, a police spokesman said when they were arrested last week.

In late March, three other people — Mohammed Shakil, 30; Sadeer Saleem, 26; and Waheed Ali, 23; all from West Yorkshire — were arrested and charged with conspiring to help with reconnaissance and planning for the London transit attacks. The charges were the first to be brought in the case.

The two sets of arrests suggested that the police were beginning to build a picture of the plot and of who had knowledge of it. But in the past, Muslim leaders in Britain have expressed outrage and anger at the police for arresting suspects only to release them without charge.

Masood Ahmed, a Labor member of a local council in West Yorkshire, told the Press Association news agency on Tuesday: “The community will want some answers. There will be some reaction, I am sure.” But, he added, the release of the suspects was “good news over all.”


Bomber's widow in 7/7 inquiry call
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6637784,00.html

Bomber's widow in 7/7 inquiry call

Press Association
Wednesday May 16, 2007 5:08 PM


The widow of London bombing ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan has backed calls for an independent public inquiry into the "dreadful events" of July 7.

Hasina Patel, 29, was released without charge on Tuesday night by police investigating the July 7 attacks.

She was one of three people arrested in connection with the 2005 bombings in the capital who were freed by the Metropolitan Police.

A fourth remains in custody.

Speaking on behalf of Ms Patel and the Patel family in Dale Street, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, solicitor Suresh Grover said Ms Patel was using this opportunity to support calls for an independent public inquiry.

Mr Grover said: "Police still need to explain the reason and timing of our arrest. Why were we arrested after two years? Why did they take such a drastic step when we have always co-operated with them?

"Our family has a good and strong reputation in this area. Our mother Farida Patel has worked hard in the community and her work has been recognised through many community awards. Yet our lives have been made unbearable by police action. We are victims too.

"Despite the ordeal, we have always expressed our sympathy for the victims of the London bombings and today we take this opportunity to support their demand for an independent public inquiry into those dreadful events."

Mr Grover was pressed on whether Ms Patel condemned her husband's involvement in the 2005 bombings. He said: "I think she's very clear that her husband was involved and anybody involved in those events should be condemned."

Asked whether she specifically condemned Khan, he said: "I can't be as clear as that. I can't speak on behalf of Hasina Patel. She has asked me to make a statement. She has sympathy with the victims and she condemns those people who carried out those dreadful bombings."

[TonyGosling]

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[spiderman]

That these guys where imprisoned. I cant help feeling that with new outcrys for a 7/7 inquiry they needed to tar Khans wife with the terrorism brush, would she be a character witness ?? who knows. i have been watching this story closly and intend to include it in my current film

[TonyGosling]

I missed this Guardian story about the police's appalling treatment of Hasina Patel. Remember that wekend we had our 9/11 Truth AGM in Leeds and Hasina was arrested just before and released just after?

Police 'kept bomber's suicide note from wife' arrested over 7/7 attack
The ringleader of the July 7 terror attacks on London left a suicide note for his wife saying they would be reunited in paradise, the Guardian has learned.
Mohammed Siddique Khan left the note for his wife, Hasina Patel, who was arrested in May on suspicion of knowing what her husband had been planning.
She was released without charge after six days in custody and Mrs Patel's lawyers have made an official complaint that police should have known from the note that Khan had not told his wife of his plans.
Police are believed to have recovered the note days after the attack in 2005, but only told Mrs Patel of it in May this year while they were interviewing her at Paddington Green police station........
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jul/28/july7.uksecurity