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Biochemist has 'no al-Qaeda link' British police are searching a house in Leeds linked to Mr al-Nashar An Egyptian biochemist held for questioning over the London bomb attacks has no links to al-Qaeda, Egypt's interior minister has said.Habib al-Adli told Egyptian newspaper Al-Jumhuriyah media speculation about Magdi Mahmoud al-Nashar was groundless. He also denied agents of the British security services had participated in Mr al-Nashar's interrogation in Cairo. Unofficial sources in Cairo and London say British agents are observing the 33-year-old's ongoing interrogation. The Egyptians are doing everything possible to cooperate, the sources say. Mr al-Adli told Al-Jumhuriyah that...

LEEDS, England (AP) - Police in Egypt questioned a biochemist about the bombings in London, but Egyptian security officials said they were not prepared to hand him over to British investigators after authorities in this northern town reportedly found traces of explosives in his bathtub. In another sign of the investigation's widening global reach, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said authorities were trying to determine whether any of the four "foot soldiers" - the suicide bombers who ranged in age from 18 to 30 - had ties with Pakistan-based cells of the al-Qaida terror network. In an interview with...

One of the bombers in last week's attacks made a direct phone call to a suspected recruiter for an extremist group in New York. Authorities told ABC News that records show Mohammed Sidique Khan, the eldest of the bombers now believed to be the field commander of the attacks, had called a person who is associated with the Islamic Center, a mosque in Queens, N.Y. Yet, a member of that mosque claimed they had no knowledge of the phone call. Police stand outside a house in Colwyn Road, Beeston, near Leeds, July 12th, 2005, which is one of five residential...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Egyptian police Friday night were interrogating a 33-year-old biochemist seized here in connection with last week's London bombings, as relatives denied that he had anything to do with the deadly suicide blasts. Cairo police seized Magdy el-Nashar at his parents' home in Bassateen, a poor suburb of the capital, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement. The doctoral graduate, who once studied chemical engineering in North Carolina, denied any connection with the London attacks and said he was in Cairo on vacation, the ministry reported. ...As Nashar underwent questioning by Egyptian authorities, it was unclear whether...

Magdy Asi el-Nashar. He is the man suspected of being the bomb-maker in last week's London attacks and the British have chased him down and caught him in Cairo. An interesting sidebar to those who think the investigation of American residents is an invasion of privacy, the 33-year-old chemist is a former North Carolina State University graduate student. That's right, he studied right here in the United States and is considered the bomb-maker in the attacks, which killed 54 and wounded more than 700. Look in your back yard and see who is living there, the time for political correctness...

The biochemist detained in Cairo in connection with the London bombings is an intelligent, quiet young man who advanced to one of Egypt's most prestigious research centers and whose lower middle-class family spent heavily for him to study abroad, neighbors say. Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar, 33, had been teaching chemistry at Leeds University in northern England, and returned to Egypt a week before the deadly July 7 bombings in the British capital. He was arrested four or five days ago in Cairo after British officials supplied his name to Egyptian authorities over the weekend, a government official said, speaking on...

By The Associated Press 38 minutes ago An Egyptian biochemist arrested in Cairo in connection with the London subway and bus bombings taught at a British university after taking graduate courses in North Carolina. Magdy el-Nashar, 33, has denied any role in the attacks during questioning by Egyptian authorities, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. A government official said el-Nashar was detained in Cairo between July 7, when the bombings occurred, and Wednesday. U.S., British and Egyptian officials had been in contact concerning el-Nashar following the attacks, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he...

According to Sky News the mastermind behind the London bombings has been captured in Cairo.

A man who allegedly made the bombs used in the London attacks has reportedly been detained in Egypt. American television company ABC said the man, believed to have had a central role in making the explosive devices, had been held near Cairo and was being questioned. 'Good Morning America' said authorities believed the man had left Britain two weeks before the London explosions on July 7. The report said authorities were eager to learn whether more than one bomb-maker had been involved and whether more bombs had been made. Earlier, police in Britain said they wanted to speak to an...

LONDON - British and FBI officials investigating the London terror attacks focused Thursday on an Egyptian-born chemist who studied in the United States and an 18-year-old Briton of Pakistani descent believed to have set off the bomb aboard a red double-decker bus. Security forces in camouflage searched the Beeston area of the northern city of Leeds as police tried to crack the network thought to have given the dead suspects planning, logistical and bomb-making support. "We don't know if there is a fifth man, or a sixth man, a seventh man, or an eighth man," London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir...

One of the individuals sought for questioning in the investigation of last week's London terrorist attacks was previously an N.C. State student. According to a report from the Times of London, detectives are now interested in locating Magdy el-Nashar, a former graduate student who attending classes in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering during the 2000 spring semester. The Egyptian-born El-Nashar left NCSU that fall to seek a doctorate from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. According to a statement from the University of Leeds Thursday, el-Nashar was involved in biochemical research, sponsered by the National Research...

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would not elaborate about the nature of the evidence, but they said they were following up on it to see where the information took them. In late March 2004, just weeks after the deadly Madrid train bombings, British authorities launched Operation Crevis, which resulted in the arrest of eight British Muslims, ages 17 to 32, on suspicion they were planning or instigating "acts of terrorism." At the time, police sources said the suspects were linked to "possible Islamist terror."In the raids, more than 700 British police fanned out at sites in London...