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No Verdict In London Bombing

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The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 2, 2008

LONDON - A British jury said Friday it had failed to reach verdicts in the case of three men accused of helping to plan the London subway and bus bombings in 2005 - the worst attack on Britain's capital since World War II.

Prosecutors said they would consider whether to seek a retrial and would make a decision within a week.

The men, who acknowledged at their trial that they knew the four London suicide bombers, have been the only people charged over the attacks on the British capital's transit network. The bombings killed 52 commuters and the four bombers on three subway trains and a bus on July 7, 2005.

Waheed Ali, 25; Sadeer Saleem, 28; and Mohammed Shakil, 32, all have denied a charge of conspiring with the bombers to cause explosions.

Prosecutors alleged that the three men had taken part in a test run for the attacks in December 2004, saying they had joined some of the eventual bombers to scout out targets including subway stations and a host of tourist sites.

Prosecutor Neil Flewitt said the men had cased out possible targets in London, including the Natural History Museum, the iconic London Eye ferris wheel and the London Aquarium.

Ali acknowledged in evidence that he had traveled to Pakistan with Mohammed Siddique Khan, the ringleader of the 2005 plot, in 2001 to attend a weapons training camp and again in 2004, when they were joined by suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer.

He said the men planned to cross the border into Afghanistan to fight coalition troops, but claimed he became sick with diarrhea in Pakistan and could not make the trip. Ali said Khan made several visits there.

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