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LONDON - One of the six men accused of the alleged July 21 bomb plot came to the attention of police on three separate occasions in the year before the attacks.
That included attending a camping trip with the other five suspected bombers which was secretly photographed by Scotland Yard surveillance officers.
A few months after being photographed on the Lake District trip in May 2004, Muktar Said Ibrahim was arrested outside Debenhams department store in Oxford Street for distributing "Islamic literature". In December 2004 he was also questioned for several hours by Special Branch at Heathrow when trying to board a flight to Islamabad in Pakistan, a jury at Woolwich Crown Court was told.
Ibrahim, 28, is alleged to have tried to set off a suicide bomb on a London bus on July 21, 2005, as part of what the prosecution describe as an "extremist Muslim plot" just two weeks after the July 7 attacks.
The others, who all deny murder and conspiracy to murder, are: Ramzi Mohammed, 25, Yassin Omar, 26, Hussain Osman, 28, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, and Adel Yahya, 24. Four bombs at Oval, Warren Street and Shepherd's Bush Tube stations and on the bus in Shoreditch all failed to explode; a fifth was dumped.
The third day of the trial heard evidence from two police. They saw about 23 men, including at least a couple of young boys. The men were seen running up and down a hillside with rucksacks and engaging in prayer.
Photographs shown to the jury showed Ibrahim near a car, Mohammed in camouflage trousers, boots and a T-shirt joining a prayer line, Omar in a white hooded top with the logo "Kenya", Osman carrying a "staff" and Yahya in the prayer line in a blue top.
- INDEPENDENT
