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Chemist, alleged mastermind of London bombings, arrested in Cairo
 A chemistry teacher believed to have been a possible mastermind in last week's London bombings has been detained near Cairo, ABC's "Good Morning America" reported on Friday. | He's the bomb maker or instructor, not the "mastermind". Reports state they brewed their own explosives, same stuff as shoe bomber. |
The ABC report from London identified the man as Magdi El-Nashar, 33, a U.S.-trained chemist. It cited Egyptian and western intelligence sources as saying he had been captured in a Cairo suburb. The report said authorities believed the man had left Britain two weeks before the explosions that killed 54 people on July 7. The report said authorities were eager to learn whether "more than one mastermind" had been involved and whether more bombs had been made, possibly at a bomb factory in Leeds in northern England. | There will be a religious advisor who selected them, a guy handling finance and supply, a local controller (the guy who saw them off on the train) and above them the "mastermind. |
Earlier press reports have said Elnashar attended North Carolina State University in 2000. ABC News said Elnashar was being questioned in Cairo, with British agents in attendance. British police say they are confident they can find an al Qaeda link to the attacks in which four British-born Muslims, the youngest only 18, blew themselves up in separate attacks on three subway trains and a bus during the morning rush hour. hemistry at Leeds University British and FBI officials were looking for el-Nashar, who recently had been teaching chemistry at Leeds University, north of London. | Who very quickly pulled him off their website, Google still has it cached. |
The Times of London said el-Nashar was thought to have rented one of the homes police searched in Leeds in a series of raids Tuesday. | Maybe he handled logistics as well. |
Neighbours reported el-Nashar recently left Britain, saying he had a visa problem, the newspaper said. Leeds University said el-Nashar arrived in October 2000 to do biochemical research, sponsored by the National Research Center in Cairo, Egypt. It said he earned a doctorate on May 6. FBI agents in Raleigh, North Carolina, joined the search for el-Nashar, who was formerly a North Carolina State University graduate student. University spokesman Keith Nichols said a person named el-Nashar studied at North Carolina State as a graduate student in chemical engineering for a semester beginning in January 2000. Nichols said the school has gathered records in anticipation of being contacted by the FBI.
Posted by: Steve 2005-07-15 |
