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February 28, 2008

UK: Wife Of Muslim Bomber On Trial

On February 4, five men were jailed for assisting the men who carried out the failed bomb attacks upon London Transport on July 21, 2005. On Wednesday February 27, the wife of one the 21/7 bombers and four other individuals went on trial at the Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court) in London.

31-year old Yeshiemebet Girma from Stockwell is the wife of Hussain Osman. When Osman failed in his attempt to blow up a London tube train, he used his brother's passport to flee to Italy. Osman traveled to Brighton, and then Paris, and passed through Milan and Bologna before he was captured in Rome on July 29, 2005. His capture had happened after his cellular phone calls to his brother were traced. He was extradited to Britain on September 22, 2007.

Osman's brother Abdul Waxid Sherif was among the five individuals convicted and given jail sentences on February 4, 2008. Sherif was given a 10-year jail term.

On Tuesday February 19 last week, a 25-year old man from Brighton pleaded guilty to assisting Hussain Osman evade capture. 25-year old Mohamed Kabashi is the former boyfriend of Yeshiemebet Girma's sister, Mulumebet Girma.

Yeshiemebet Girma is currently on trial with Mulumebet Girma, aged 23, and her brother Esayas Girma, aged 22. All are from Stockwell. Also on trial are 24-year old Shadi Abdelgadir from Brighton, East Sussex, and 22-year old Omer Almagboul, also from Brighton.

The prosecutor in the case is Max Hill, who is maintaining that the accused assisted Hussain Osman ten ways, including providing him with cash, dressing his injury, washing his clothes, getting rid of incriminating material, searching on the internet to find out the state of the police investigation, giving him clothes and a car.

The five accused all deny assisting Osman to escape and also deny charges of failing to disclose information which could have caused Osman to be apprehended in the United Kingdom. Osman's wife Yeshiemebet additionally denies a charge of failing to disclose information which could have prevented an act of terrorism.

Max Hill said on Wednesday: "Yeshi Girma had prior knowledge of the events of 21/7. She had some information about what the bombers intended to do on 21/7, but failed to bring this to the attention of the police."

"Had the bombers successfully and completely detonated the bombs on busy Tube trains that day, there would have been carnage and mass murder."

"Armed with that prior knowledge of what was going to happen, Yeshi Girma could have attempted to prevent the attacks, which, but for shortcomings in the production of the explosive devices, would have killed and injured many people."

The prosecutor maintained that tapes of radical Islamic preaching were found with the fingerprints of Yeshiemebet Girma and her brother Esayas Girma. These were tapes by preachers such as Abu Hamza al-Masri and Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal.

Max Hill said that Yeshiemebet Girma had allowed Hussain Osman to take their young son to a training camp in Cumbria (the Lake District) where Osman met the other 21/7 bombers.

He also maintained that on the night of July 21, 2005, Hussain Osman had stayed in a rented apartment in Brighton with with Shadi Abdelgadir and Omer Almagboul. With them in the apartment were Esyas and Mulumebet Girma and also Mohamed Kabashi, the boyfriend of Mulumebet Girma.

After Hussain Osman had been in Brighton for two days he returned to London where, using his brother's passport, he then boarded a Eurostar train to Paris on July 26, 2005.

The trial continues.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 28, 2008 7:25 PM

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