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Britain
Bomb quiz chemist 'fears return'
2005-08-10
An Egyptian bio-chemist freed in Cairo after questioning over the 7 July London bombs says he is wary of returning to his home in the UK. Magdi al-Nashar, 33, recently completed a chemistry PhD at Leeds University. He says he was held during a trip to Egypt after having innocent contacts with bomber Jermaine Lindsay.
You mean helping him get the flat where the bombs were made? Those "innocent contacts"?
Just trying to help the lad make a new start in life.
He told the BBC he may delay his return to the UK after being held during a holiday in Egypt as he feared people might not know he has been cleared.
Rats, he figured it out. Egypt wouldn't extradite him, but if he returned on his own the Brits could pick him up at the airport for more "questioning".
Mr Nashar was arrested in Cairo on 15 July. He was freed on Tuesday after the authorities said there was no link between him and the bombs or al-Qaeda.
As far as I can tell, it's only the Egyptian authorities that have made that statement.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he met Lindsay at a mosque in Leeds in October 2004. And he had found a location for a bomb lab accommodation for him in the city shortly before the bombings. "He told me his name was Gamal, but from the papers I knew his name was Jermaine Lindsay," he said.
"but his friends just called him Nancy..."
"...in June he phoned and asked me if I could help him get a flat for his family to move completely from London to Leeds." Mr Nashar said he was concerned after being portrayed as a "a bad person and a terrorist" by some of the media after 7 July. "If somebody has seen my picture on the front page as a terrorist or something like that and then he will not know I am innocent and has seen me in the streets, what will he think?".
That the cops are waiting for the right time to bag you?
Posted by:Steve

#2  I am a United States Senator.
I have a right not to be made fun of!
Posted by: Dick Durbin   2005-08-10 14:45  

#1  Sung to "Guantanamera"

I am a jihadi from a desert place
I am right up in your ugly face
I want to take out all infidels
So virgins will service me
My verses honor Osama
But my acts create great drama

Guantanamo base
I’m off to Guantanamo base
Guantanamo base
I’m off to Guantanamo base

I reform young minds in Madrassas
Teach boys that bombing’s what it's about
Women only come in great paradise
To die for this would be nice
While Durbin cultivates much doubt
And other’s undermine Bush’s clout

Guantanamo base
I’m off to Guantanamo base
Guantanamo base
I’m off to Guantanamo base

With the naive of the West
I want to encourage them to be best
With those fools of the land
I want to sing to their band
Galloway’s words do please me
Soon I hope that I will be free

Guantanamo base
I’m off to Guantanamo base
Guantanamo base
I’m off to Guantanamo base
Posted by: Ogeretla 2005   2005-08-10 13:19  

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