Posted on 08/10/2006 9:33:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON - The Bank of England froze the assets of 19 people early Friday, naming them as people arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged terror plot to bomb British passenger jets.
"On the advice of the police and security services, the Treasury has instructed the Bank of England to issue notices to effect a freeze of the assets of a number of individuals arrested in yesterday's operations," a Treasury statement said.
Most of those named in the list were London residents, and many bore Muslim names.
Scotland Yard had no immediate comment.
The bank released the following names: Abdula Ahmed Ali, Cossor Ali, Shazad Khuram Ali, Nabeel Hussain, Tanvir Hussain, Umair Hussain, Umar Islam, Waseem Kayani, Assan Abdullah Khan, Waheed Arafat Khan, Osman Adam Khatib, Abdul Muneem Patel, Tayib Rauf, Muhammed Usman Saddique, Assad Sarwar, Ibrahim Savant, Amin Asmin Tariq, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, and Waheed Zaman..
The oldest person on the list, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, is 35. The youngest, Abdul Muneem Patel, is 17.
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On the Net:
Bank of England release: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2006/082.htm
I bet their will be senate hearings on the matter and I'm sure the ACLU will get involved.
I heard Norah O'Donnell on MSNBC today use the word "gentlemen" in describing the arrested.
Thanks,, some local reporting from the Sun here..
Suspects seized in raids
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006370173,00.html
I think that is a good thing. I see a lot of americans being really stooopid with their money. Mike Tyson, Lyndon LaRouche, MC Hammer, and a gaggle of others come to mind.
It also means "doctor".
-ccm
Short article in the Sun about one of those arrested spending time with George Galloway... Galloway denies it of course.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006370177,00.html
Checked your link--one of the guys was a biochemist!
A Muslim woman protests outside Scotland Yard in London, June 2006. British anti-terrorism laws discriminate against Muslims and law enforcement agencies are running a "real risk of criminalising" ethnic minority communities, a top police officer will say on Monday, according to The Guardian newspaper.(AFP/File/John D McHugh)
That's a great turn of phrase! OK if I use it?
Were there any biological brothers in the bunch? Remember Saddam paid $25K per suicide bomber in Israel. That would be a double premium if there were brothers.
well the libs keep telling us that George Bush is the world's biggest terrorist.
There's a girl in Topeka I would like to question!
or......
service station owner;
taco bell owner;
Econo Lodge owner;
etc. etc...etc...
Clearly these are all white Christian Republicans. We should round up all those who voted for George W. Bush and lock them all up while we still can.
does the U.K. have the death penalty ?
If not , they need to reinstate it .
Perfect. All sound like Pakistani names to me. Exactly how many of them are not of Pakistani origin? 1?2? I say they just pack up and go back to their madrasas in the Middle-East and never leave their Islamic homelands.
Yes a Muslim of Sindhi/Punjabi/Gujarati descent can be a Patel. The surname is symbolic of a social standing in older Indian feudal society. His ancestor must have been a small land-owner.
Looks to me like all 19 bore Muslim names. AP couldn't even acknowledge what info it has in its own article. Sheesh!
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