Για πρωτη φορα εχουμε δικη βομβιστων που δεν ΕΒΑΛΑΝ βομβα πουθενα αλλα εχουμε εικονες απο λεωφορια και τραινα απ'τις καμερες ενω για τις πραγματικες βομβες που ανατοιναχτηκαν στις 7 Ιουλιου 2005 δεν εχουμε ουτε μια εικονα απο τα λεωφορια ουτε τα τραινα μα και ουτε στις εισοδους των διαφορων σταθμων.
Μαρτυρια καποιου που παραβρεθηκε στη Δικη.
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22 March 2007, Woolwich Crown Court
'21/7 BOMB PLOT WAS "BIGGER THAN 7/7"', screamed the headline. 'The man behind the 21/7 terror plot intended it to be "bigger and better" than 7/7, a court heard this afternoon. Muktar Said Ibrahim wanted to match the attacks on the transport system on 7 July, and also bring down a 12-storey block of flats in north London, it is alleged' - Evening Standard.
What I heard at the Court that day, as a visitor, was rather different. MSI kept repeatedly saying 'No, that's not so' to allegations from the prosecution lawyer (Mr Camlish QC, Matrix Chambers). I counted 16 wigs evident, a basically all-white court with only one Muslim, the man on trial. If this carries on for several months, it may cost the taxpayer a couple of million. The charge against the four young men is 'conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.'
'In your twisted thoughts ...,' the prosecution witness proclaimed, and I was shocked that the judge did not object. MSI was accused of attempted murder which he categorically rejected. He stood up moderately well for one who has been in prison for a year. The central absurdity in the prosecution's case, was the claim made that hydrogen peroxide mixed with flour could bring down a block of flats in a 'ball of fire': in addition to bombs on the underground and one on a bus. I'm not clear that such a mixture would explode at all, but possibly one could get a bang out of it.
MSI had spent a while distilling the peroxide, to try and get it up to 70%. He had spent a while with electric wires trying to wire up the mixture. As to his motive, he seemed quite clear on that. As a Muslim he was horrified by the Iraq war and wanted to give British citizens some feeling of what it was like to have bombs going off. He used words such as, 'We bought many wires for the hoax ...' and 'only for demonstration,' and 'just a bang,' clearly intending no injuries. The bombs did not 'fail', he was adamant on this. They were meant to go bang without hurting anyone, he explained, and they did. They would temporarily give the impression of a bomb scare.
This court was fairly racist IMO, with no-one making an attempt to appreciate what it felt like for a young Muslim, who wanted to make Britons talk about the subject, and whose religion forbade him to take life. He stood up fairly well to the barrage of questions. Asked about July 7th, MSI categorically denied approval of the means used to protest against the Iraq war.
The climax of the day was when the prosecution lawyer brought into the Court the very sideboard where MSI had mixed the peroxide and flour. Yes, he admitted to having done it. Then a waste-bin was produced and alleged to have contained the bomb, which MSI categorically denied. Dramatically, the prosecution put the bin into the sideboard. 'But, so what?' asked MSI - quite effectively, I thought. Basically they have no evidence that he intended to do anything more than cause a disturbance, which he did.
He has been in jail before, for a couple of years, for involvement in a mugging offence. Having come from Eritreia, he went on a holiday to the Sudan in 2004, and the prosecution continually tried to imply that he was studying rocket-launch terror strikes out there, but this remained as mere innuendo. Thrice we were told of his having fondled the breasts of a young girl when he and she were both 15 and she had filed a complaint about it. He had misread her signals he explained, and had apologised. The judge kept telling us that this indicated a predisposition to use violence.
When told that he had booby-trapped a cupboard (as brought into the Court, with traces of peroxide and flour in it) to kill a colleague with whom he shared the flat, for no very evident motive, MSI denied this vehemently, saying 'As a Muslim, I'd go to hell, especially if I killed a Muslim'. For the huge expense of this court, I would have liked to have seen one or two Muslims present, who could have made some attempt to get into the mind of this 28-year old maybe confused but surely honest young man.
Everything in this day at the court confirmed what Osman Hussein (connected with the bomb at Shepherd's Bush) had earlier said (he was the one of these four who had fled to Rome right after the event): that there was only flour in the bombs and they were only intended to frighten people. MSI was responding to a barrage of questions about all aspects of his life over several hours, and his questions while being continually told he was lying or being deceptive by the Prosecution, maintained a fairly impressive integrity. This group seemed to have planned this event quite independently of the July 7th bombings.
An alleged 'fifth bomber' Manfo Asiedu connected with a rucksack 'flour-bomb' left in a park on July 21, has accused MSI of having intended to blow up the block of flats. MSI replied, that the latter had changed his story because the police had bribed him, that he would be let off if he claimed that there was a bomb in this plot, that was really intended to kill people. This was in the afternoon (I came to the Court with Steve Barker, I was only there for the morning, but he stayed for the whole day).
Conjecture by Steve Barker: MSI was the guy the police were allegedly trying to get when they shot Jean-Charles de Mendez the next day on 22nd July. To try and justify this outrage, they do need public belief that the 21/7 gang were really intending to let off real bombs, otherwise they will look silly. This analysis tends to endorse MSI's view that Asiedu has been put up to this, and will get off in return for his testimony. MSI will therefore have to be found guilty.
In afternoon, Steve Barker heard the prosecution asking why MSI did not let the bomb off on the Underground, in the tunnel. That was because, he replied, he wanted to let it off as the train pulled into the station, as the doors opened - so he could escape. There was no remote control, i.e. he had no proper detonator switch, he would have to put two wires together. The four of them were planning to escape after the blast, they were not 'suicide bombers.'
MSI was in some degree inspired by the event of 7/7 to go ahead with a plan which he already had. It was a non-lethal copycat act, but there was otherwise no direct connection between the two events. There is no evidence that the two groups had met up together.
Woolwich Crown Court is next door to Belmarsh Prison.
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