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Note: Photo included. Trio not guilty of helping 7/7 London bombers Jury clears men of conspiring with four bombers over London 2005 explosions that killed 52 Rachel Williams guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 28 April 2009 17.01 BST Three British Muslims were today cleared of helping the 7 July bombers choose their targets by carrying out a reconnaissance mission in London seven months before the attacks that killed 52 people and injured almost 1,000. A jury at Kingston crown court unanimously found Waheed Ali, 25, Sadeer Saleem, 28, and Mohammed Shakil, 32, all from Beeston, Leeds, not guilty of conspiring with the four...

The family of 18-year-old London bomber Hasib Mir Hussain say they are "devastated" by what has happened. In a statement they described the bus bomber as "a loving and normal young man who gave us no concern". "We had no knowledge of his activities and had we done, we would have done everything in our power to stop him." Earlier, an Egyptian chemistry expert sought by police over the attacks, Magdi Mahmoud al-Nashar, 33, was arrested in Cairo. Hussain was reported missing by his family in the aftermath of the bombings. LONDON BOMBERS Shezhad Tanweer. Photo: Ross Parry Mohammad Sidique...

Police have released a CCTV image of the four London bombers as they set out from Luton on their bombing mission. They have also confirmed the names of all four men for the first time. Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Germaine Lindsay, 19, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Shahzad Tanweer, 22, were pictured in Luton at 0720 BST on Thursday 7 July. Three bombs exploded on the London underground at 0850 BST, and one on a bus at 0947. Fifty-five people died, including the four bombers. The picture was released in an attempt to find out more about their final movements. Peter...

The Times charts the last hours of the first home-grown suicide bombers to hit Britain ON THE afternoon of Wednesday, July 6, Hasib Hussain told his mother that he was thinking of going to London “with a few of the lads” to attend a religious seminar. “I might go to London for the night and come back tomorrow morning,” he said vaguely. Then the burly 18-year-old slumped down on the sofa in the sitting room of the family house in Holbeck, and went to sleep. Hussain had become intensely religious since he returned from Pakistan, but he was still a...