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Osman caught a Eurostar train to Paris from Waterloo. French
security sources think Osman arrived in Paris's Gare du Nord early on
Tuesday. He then travelled to Gare de Lyon, catching a train to Milan before
taking sleeper services to Brescia and Bologna, finally arriving at Rome's
Termini station at about 8am on Thursday. He then spent a brief period at
the Sheriffcom.site internet cafe near the station run by his brother Ramzi.
Police have removed all the computers from the cafe
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Osman was arrested at Ramzi's three-bedroom flat in the
working-class Casilino district.
Bombing suspects watched Iraq war videos
By GLEN OWEN and NICK PISA in Rome and DOMINIC TURNBULL in London, Mail on
Sunday 08:46am 31st July 2005
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357670&in_page_id=1770
One of the men arrested over the failed London bomb attacks has told police
he watched videos of the Iraq war with fellow suspects, it was reported.
Hussain Osman, who is accused of trying to detonate a bomb at Shepherd's
Bush, claimed he was shown footage of the conflict by Muktar Said Ibrahim,
the man arrested in connection with the abortive attack on the Hackney bus.
Osman, who was arrested in Rome on Friday night after a joint operation by
British and Italian anti-terrorist officers, was quoted in the respected
Italian Corriere della Sera newspaper as telling police: "Ibrahim showed us
films and videos of the war in Iraq."
According to the report, Osman indicated that he and his friends were
interested in politics rather than religion. The claims will be regarded as
a serious blow to Tony Blair, who has sought desperately to keep the issue
of Iraq separate from the London bombing campaign.
Earlier this month Mr Blair argued: "If it is Iraq that motivates [the
bombers], why is the same ideology killing Iraqis by terror in defiance of
an elected Iraqi government? What was September 11 the reprisal for?"
According to the report, Osman told police he met Ibrahim in West London,
near the flats where he was dramatically arrested on Friday. He told police:
"I used a gym in Notting Hill. That's where I met Ibrahim."
The newspaper also reported a possible link between Osman and Saudi Arabia,
claiming he called a Saudi number shortly before his arrest. Osman, 27, was
tracked throughout his 1,000-mile journey from London to Rome via Paris and
Milan, Brescia and Bologna, using mobile phone technology.
Osman vanished immediately after the bomb he is alleged to have been
carrying failed to detonate on July 21. A few minutes later he was captured
on CCTV boarding the 220 bus towards Wandsworth, South-West London.
Detectives piecing together his movements
Where he went afterwards is not known. But the day after the failed
explosion bid, police raided a flat in Stockwell, South London, where the
mother of his Ethiopian girlfriend, Yeshiemebet Girma, lived.
Italy's interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, said Osman caught a Eurostar
train to Paris from Waterloo last Tuesday. Detectives are now thought to be
scanning hours of footage from the station.
French security sources think Osman arrived in Paris's Gare du Nord early on
Tuesday. He then travelled to Gare de Lyon, catching a train to Milan before
taking sleeper services to Brescia and Bologna, finally arriving at Rome's
Termini station at about 8am on Thursday.
He then spent a brief period at the Sheriffcom.site internet cafe near the
station run by his brother Ramzi. On Friday, shortly after Osman's arrest at
Ramzi's three-bedroom flat in the working-class Casilino district, police
removed all the computers from the cafe.
Before the brothers were arrested they had both prayed together at the
nearby Al Houda "mosque" - in reality a garage used by Muslims who live in
the area.
Neighbours told how police had been lying in wait for Osman. Italian police
sources said Ramzi had handed over the keys to his flat and told them they
would find his brother there. One said: "We convinced Ramzi it would be
better for him to co-operate.
"Four officers were sent in and they found Hussain sitting on the sofa. He
did not resist and he obeyed instructions to kneel down on the floor. He
spoke in Italian."
'This is a very delicate phase'
Osman was yesterday being held in a cell on the seventh floor of Rome's
high-security Regina Coeli prison, where guards said he had pasta and
meatballs for lunch.
Yesterday a preliminary extradition hearing took place there. Sources say
Osman intended to fight to stay in Italy. A British police source said: "If
he opposes extradition it will draw out the process and it could be six to
eight weeks before he is brought back to London."
Osman's court-appointed lawyer, Antonietta Sonnessa, said after the hearing:
"This is a very delicate phase." Asked about the newspaper report, she said:
"To say anything else would be counterproductive. He is not collaborating
but has made declarations to investigators."
Osman's brother Ramzi was also being questioned for allegedly possessing
false identity papers.
Meanwhile, a friend of Osman's girlfriend has revealed how he had ordered
her not to mix with Westerners. Jammell Burrell, 25, who met Girma at a
women's refuge when she was pregnant with Osman's first child six years ago,
said: "She lived for him. It was as if he controlled her."
Last night the four other men held over the alleged attacks - Ibrahim, 27,
Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, and brothers Ramzi and Wahbi Mohammed, 23, were being
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