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London bomb suspect: Bombs not meant to harm
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- One of the suspects in the July 21 failed bomb attacks in London told British investigators Tuesday in Rome the blasts were meant to "make noise" but not harm anyone, according to his lawyer.
Hamdi Issac is suspected of being the fourth man to carry an explosive-laden backpack onto the London transit system two weeks after four bombers killed 52 commuters and themselves on three subway trains and a bus. The bombs that Issac and the others allegedly carried failed to fully detonate. He told Italian investigators after his arrest in Rome that the bomb he carried was meant scare people and not to kill.

Scotland Yard, however, says the bombs were meant to kill but misfired. Britain has requested Issac's extradition to face charges in connection with the July 21 botched attacks.

Issac's attorney, Antonietta Sonnessa, who was present during Tuesday's interrogation, told reporters that her client again said the bomb was meant to "make noise" and demonstrate his opposition to the Iraq war. "There were some nails (in the backpack)," she said, "but the explosive was not meant to kill."
Bombs don't kill people. It's the blast wave and shrapnel that kill people.
The other three men suspected of carrying the bombs -- Ibrahim Muktar Said, Yassin Omar and Ramzi Mohamed -- along with Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, suspected of abandoning his backpack in a London park, have been charged in London with conspiracy to murder. Said, Omar and Mohamed have also been charged with attempted murder. Nine people have been charged in Britain with aiding Issac's escape or failing to disclose information about him to police. All of them are in custody in Britain.

Sonnessa told reporters that Judge Domenico Massimo Miceli and four or five British officers, including a translator, were present during the two-hour questioning at Rome's Regina Coeli prison. Issac, she said, answered questions in Italian. She also said British investigators showed Issac several photographs, including some of the other suspects, and that he recognized several. It was not clear, however, which of the other suspects were included in the photographs and who he recognized.
Issac repeated his claim that he did not prepare the backpack himself, but that one of the other suspects gave it to him, his lawyer said. Sonnessa told reporters she is still waiting to see the report on the type of explosive her client was alleged to be carrying.
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