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  Wife of failed London 21/7 suicide bomber convicted of keeping her husband's terror attack plans secret   By David Williams Last updated at 9:35 PM on 11th June 2008The wife of a would-be suicide bomber was yesterday found guilty of failing to alert police to his plot for 'carnage and mass murder'. Yeshi Girma knew of Hussain Osman's plan to kill and maim Tube passengers on July 21, 2005 – and even helped him escape after his device did not explode.It was only the botched bomb-making of Osman and his three fellow terrorists that prevented a repeat of...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A jury on Thursday found London's police force guilty of breaching health and safety laws over the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a fugitive suicide bomber. Jean Charles de Menezes was killed on July 22, 2005, as a result of a "catastrophic" series of errors committed by the Metropolitan police force, London's Central Criminal Court was told. The force now faces an unlimited fine. Prosecutors had earlier told the jury that specialist firearms police killed de Menezes at Stockwell Underground station, in south London, and put the lives of others at risk because...

Dramatic film of a fireman confronting one of the alleged July 21 bombers on a Tube train as other passengers fled in panic was shown to a jury yesterday. The CCTV footage showed Ramzi Mohammed, 25, wearing a rucksack and boarding the busy Northern Line Tube at Stockwell, south London. He turned his back towards a mother with a child in a pushchair before detonating his device. The detonator exploded, although the main charge, made up of liquid hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour, failed to go off. As other passengers tried to run, Angus Campbell, an off-duty fireman, stayed and...

LONDON, (AFP) - A man who fled to Italy after allegedly trying to set off one of four bombs in a botched attack in London on July 21 was to appear in court in the British capital charged with attempted murder. Hussain Osman, a 27-year-old Briton of Ethiopian origin, landed in London on Thursday aboard a private plane from Rome after losing his two-month legal battle against extradition from Italy. Three alleged co-conspirators -- suspected of trying to repeat the bombings on three London subway trains and a bus that killed 56 people on July 7, including the bombers --...

Hussain Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London's failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that they prepared for the attacks by watching "films on the war in Iraq," La Repubblica reported. "Especially those where women and children were being killed and exterminated by British and American soldiers...of widows, mothers and daughters that cry." It has become an article of faith that Britain was vulnerable to terror because of its politically correct antiracism. Yet Osman's comments suggest that what propelled at least some of the bombers was rage at what they saw as extreme...

THE lawyer representing Hussain Osman, the London bomb suspect, said that he had denied that the failed attacks on July 21 had anything to do with the bombings a fortnight earlier. “He has justified his actions as a form of protest against the fact that civilians are suffering in wars at the present time. “He is not at all a violent person and made sure he would not cause any damage, injuries or deaths. There wasn’t a very clearly defined plan, the whole thing was set the day before, in a meeting with this group of friends.” Italy said that...

July 31, 2005 No checks as fugitive fled UK Britain's border controls were under fire last night after it emerged that one of the suspected July 21 suicide bombers fled abroad five days after the attempted attacks. This was several days after his photograph had been published widely in newspapers and on television. Hussain Osman escaped abroad on a Eurostar train last Tuesday en route to Rome, where he was finally arrested by Italian police on Friday. His British passport was checked only by French immigration officials at Waterloo because outgong British passport checks were abandoned at the station last...