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Bebi
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 Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: Suspect in 21/7 felt 'quite bad' |
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Suspect in 21/7 felt 'quite bad'
One of the alleged plotters in the failed London bombings felt "quite bad" after detonating his explosive on a London tube, a court has heard.
Yassin Omar, the so-called Warren Street bomber, described how his device sounded like a champagne cork when it went off and while some of the passengers looked alarmed, others "thought it was a joke".
The 26-year-old from New Southgate in north London, is one of six men accused of plotting and carrying out an extremist Muslim plot by detonating bombs across London's transport network.
Giving evidence for a second day at Woolwich Crown Court, he told the jury how some of the hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour explosive burst from his rucksack.
"The detonator went pop - it was like a champagne cork," he said. "The bag broke and some of the main charge went on my shirt. I quickly looked round and put my bag on the floor.
"Some of the people (on the tube) thought it was a joke and they just looked at me strangely. Some of them, they looked alarmed. Some of the ladies, they panicked."
When asked how he felt after detonating his device, he replied: "I felt quite bad - my intention was not to do that to people. Because it was part of the demonstration, the idea was to get the public's attention and I think it came with that.
"I knew maybe it would cause alarm but I never thought it was going to cause a major panic."
Omar insisted the explosion, which he claims was a protest against the war in Iraq, was specifically timed before lunch when there were less people on the tube because he wanted to avoid a "stampede".
CCTV images showed him leaving the train at Warren Street, heading up the escalators before he jumped the barriers at the station and ran away.
The defendant said: "I was hot, panicky and running away from the sirens. I had main charge on my hands and some of it was under my nails and it was hurting me a bit."
Already in the trial the jury have been shown CCTV footage of Omar travelling to Birmingham the next day in a black full-length dress and burka with a handbag over his arm.
Omar and his co-defendants are charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.
The others in the dock are Hussain Osman, 28, of no fixed address, Mukta Said Ibrahim, 29, from Stoke Newington, north London, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, of North Kensington, west London, Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London and Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, of no fixed address. All six deny the charges.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/2007...-21-7-felt-quite-bad-dba1618.html |
 "my intention was not to do that to people." Nope, you were going to blow them up instead...
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