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An armed policeman patrols at Heathrow
Airport in London following the introduction of heightened security
measures August 10, 2006.(File Photo)
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Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Three suspects charged with the alleged plot to blow up
transatlantic passenger jets have been remanded in custody until Sept.
4, according to CNN's report.
The remand brought the total number of
people charged related to the UK airline plot case to 15.
The three British Muslims are Mohammed Yasar Gulzar
(age unknown), Mohammed Shamin Udin, 35, and Nabeel Hussain, 22. They were
charged late Tuesday with conspiracy to murder and planning to blow up as many
as 10 transatlantic planes.
The three men were among the 25 people arrested who
allegedly planned to use homemade liquid explosives to bring down the airliners
over the Atlantic on the way from Britain to the United States.
Eight men were remanded over the charges of
conspiracy, four others, including a 17-year-old youth, are accused of lesser
offenses, and five more, including a baby taken into custody with his mother,
had been released without charge.
"We have been carefully examining and assessing the
evidence against each individual with the assistance of antiterrorist officers
in order to come to charging decisions at the earliest practicable opportunity,"
said Susan Hemming, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Counter Terrorism
Division last week.
The investigation scale was "immense," said Peter
Clarke, deputy assistant ommissioner of Metropolitan Police, at a press
conference in London, Aug. 21, adding that police had made 69 searches of
houses, flats and businesses, vehicles and open spaces and checked more than 400
computers, 200 mobile phones, 8,000 computers and such media items as memory
sticks, CDs and DVDs. Enditem
(Agencies)
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