British police identify London bombings mastermind: report

[maddezmom]

LONDON (AFP) - British police have identified the man thought to be the mastermind behind last week's bombings in London in which at least 52 people died, a report said.

The British-born man in his 30s, of Pakistani origin, arrived at a British port last month and left the country again the day before Thursday's attacks, The Times newspaper reported.

The four suspected suicide bombers, three of whom have been identified by newspapers, were also Britons of Pakistani origin.

According to The Times, security sources believe the mastermind was involved in previous terror operations and has links with followers of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda extremist group in the United States.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050713/wl_uk_afp/britainattacks_050713233940

:shrug:

[bpilgrim]

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peace

[maddezmom]

3. you need a warning for that one

:D

[rocktivity]

2. Oh, so England has their own bin Laden now

Mysterious, elusive, "believed" to have done really bad things--so bad that the authorities dare not speak his name.

:headbang:
rocknation

[maddezmom]

4. see post #1

;)

[catnhatnh]

5. Time for Blair to shuck & duck...

....and right on time appears....Osama Bin London (TADA).

[doublethink]

6. Osama Bin "London" ...........

nice, who da thunk it? :shrug:

[catnhatnh]

7. God this stuff....

Writes itself...

[Barrett808]

8. So, is it too tinfoil to suspect...ISI?

We really created a monster over there in the '80s.

[Generator]

9. No anybody with an internet connection

can make that link in about ten minutes. And it's not tinfoil. Pakistan is the nexus of the whole deal, methinks.

[varun]

10. indeed...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1692621,00.html

Analysis: how Pakistan became a hotbed for terrorists

...For quite some time, there has been a network of contacts between British extremists and the Jihadi organisations based in Pakistan. Once contact has been made with these young people, they become influenced by them and are encouraged to visit the training camps...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1693027,00.html

...One factor, however, that has to be taken into account by Muslim communities horrified by the violence inflicted in the name of their religion is the pernicious shadow of fanaticism in the land from which the bombers’ families all came. Pakistan today is troubled by religious turmoil, a country now reaping a deadly harvest from years of military rule, repeated democratic failure, the indulgence of Islamic obscurantism and sectarian violence...

[stickdog]

11. What do you make of this "expert" commentary?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/ahomegrownthreat

"It won't be a shock if they came from nowhere and had absolutely no connections," the anti-terrorism official said. "But if it was a homegrown group without external support, that would be new. If there were no external resources and they put it all together, that would be new."

[stickdog]

12. Here's the google cache of the now protected University of Leeds faculty

page of the supposed terrorist mastermind:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:s4QeV0YMqucJ:www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/IRC/melnashar.htm+Nashar+site:www.chem.leeds.ac.uk&hl=en&client=firefox

Here's the google search that got me there:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Nashar&num=10&hs=JxF&hl=en&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=www.chem.leeds.ac.uk&safe=off

[stickdog]

13. They are cleaning this guy off the internet as we speak!

Here's a 404 page about him:

http://www.gus-ev.de/nuernberg03prog.html

Luckily, there's always the google cache:

http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gus-ev.de%2Fnuernberg03prog.html

He's into chemical engineering product design

CEEES Nürnberg Conference
May 14th - 15th, 2003
Methods and Benefits of Environmental Testing & Engineering

4. Session: Product Design with Respect to Sustainability

14.00 h

Management of Product Sustainability and its Transfer into Practice
H. Schubert, PSE GmbH, Walzbachtal, D

14.30 h

The Series Hybrid Micro-bus
S. M. Metwalley, M. El Nashar, Helwan University, Cairo, ET

[stickdog]

14. He contributed to this scientific paper

http://pubs.rsc.org/ej/AN/2000/b000861n.pdf

[stickdog]

15. Sorry, that was NOT him! Please ignore the above information. (nt)

[stickdog]

16. He was on a £40,000 fellowship to create his own bioscience business!

His first name is Magdy. His middle names are either Mahmoud or Mahmoud Mostafa.

Searching for this pattern is tough:

Magdy/MMM/MM/MagdyMM/MagdyM/Magdy MM/Magdy M M/M M M/Magdy Mahmoud/Magdy Mahmoud Mostafa/Magdy Mahmoud M and so forth

His last name is El Nashar/Elnashar.

Look for his name "Magdy Elnashar" on the links on the left column of the webpage:

http://enterprisefellows.com/

The pilot Bioscience Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship is designed for qualified graduates and post-docs who want to create a business based on their research. The Fellowship provides a range of practical and pragmatic support to commercialise and progress the Enterprise Fellows' ideas and research findings. The goal of the scheme is to increase entrepreneurial activity in Yorkshire universities' bioscience departments and to accelerate and support the formation of start up bioscience businesses.

This page tells what the Bioscience Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship is all about:

http://enterprisefellows.com/a.php?cat=80

About the Fellowship

The Fellows are fully supported by the Scheme - and by their host University - to progress the development of their science into a commercial enterprise. This can take up to 12 months, during which time the Fellow works as part of the extended Fellowship. Mandatory entrepreneurship and business skills training is complemented by a menu of events, seminars and masterclasses.
Expert advice and good funding

Financial support totals £30,000 per Fellow. This is made up of a £15,000 research grant and a £15,000 commercial support grant, plus an optional £10,000 interest free loan from HSBC bank repayable from year two. The funds are managed jointly by the scheme managers and by the Fellow, and are drawn down as agreed milestones are met.

Each Fellow works with the scheme managers, themselves experienced business creators, to create parallel 'roadmaps' for the science and the enterprise. Added to this is a personal development programme to provide underpinning skills and knowledge.

Look at the beginning of our mastermind's profile here:

http://enterprisefellows.com/m.php?cat=89891

Magdy Elnashar, University of Leeds

At the University of Leeds, Magdy is researching a carrageenan gel matrix scaffold to immobilize enzymes and provide an alternative to chemicals currently used in the food, detergent and waste…

Profile added 16th Nov 2004

He presented a poster about his work in 9/2004 at the 2nd Central European Conference Chemistry towards Biology in Seggau, Austria:

http://seggau2004.uni-graz.at/Posters.htm

Novel Matrix for Biocatalyst Production - Magdy M.M. Elnashar, Leed Univeristy, Biochemistry and Molekular Biology Department, Leeds, UK

[stickdog]

17. Here's his staff profile at the University of Leeds

http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/People/staffprofile.php?staff=bmbmmme

Magdy M.M. Elnashar

Postgraduate in the School of Biochemistry and Microbiology

Office: Garstang 10.110
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Biochemistry and Microbiology

Research Summary

Development of Novel Matrices for the Immobilisation of Enzymes for Biotechnology

Lab or Team: PAM (Group Leader Paul A. Millner)

Publications: No publication data found


Here are the other folks who worked in his lab:

http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/People/ListByResearchGroup.php?lab=PAM

Here's the profile of the "group leader" of his lab along with this professor's publications:

http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/People/staffprofilewithpubs.php?staff=PAM#pubs

[stickdog]

19. Here's the latest stuff our "mastermind" biochemistry fellow posted

up until just LAST WEEK for the benefit and edification of his fellow fellows:

http://enterprisefellows.com/a.php?cat=10103

Latest Magdy Elnashar Info

Fresh Start

Start a business Setting up a business takes research, planning and legal know-how. Whether you're going it alone or setting up a small company, look no further for your business basics.
Posted last week

Yorkshire Science and Technology Network

The Yorkshire Science and Technology Network (YSTN) will encourage and create opportunities to maximize the exchange of knowledge and the commercial exploitation of ideas.
Posted last week

More News in the Yorkshire Post

Another BYEF Fellow has been featured in a Yorkshire Post article.
Posted a month ago

Entrepreneurship and Bioscience

The chance has arisen to produce information packs for lecturers and students to encourage entrepreneurial bioscientists.
Posted a month ago

Yorkshire Post Article

New Fellows Aadil El-Turabi, Roula Marlafeka and James Chong were featured in the Yorkshire Post's business section recently.
Posted 2 months ago

[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. Wait...let me guess! One of Zarqawi's 2nd-in-commands?

[sweetheart]

20. Pakistan... figures

Pakistan is the most terror-sponsoring nation on earth, in my view, and
they are the problem, musharraf and his criminal army, along with
the remnants of the ISI and the kashmiri insurgency.

It sickens me that bush calls them an ally. The reality is anything but,
a nation of nuclear armed nutters who have no business claiming to
be a responsible state. Perhaps pakistan should pay a price for
sponsoring terrorism... just a thought... perhaps. ITS ABOUT FUCKING TIME.