British boy wrongly labelled as London bomber (Dead british bomber, ALIVE)

[theearthisround]

http://www.dawn.com/2005/07/22/top4.htm

AN INTERVIEW of a British teenager broadcast on a Pakistani television network has thrown into doubt investigators’ claims that all the three London bombers of Pakistani descent visited Pakistan last year. According to the investigators, the three bombers had died in the July 7 attacks.

But 16-year-old Hasib Hussain, a namesake of one of the putative bombers and of Pakistani descent, said in the interview that a photograph of a passport purporting to show bomber Hasib Hussain, 19, was his, and not that of the ‘bomber’.

The photo, together with documents showing that Hasib and two other bombers visited Pakistan last year, was published in newspapers on Monday.

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An FIA official told the BBC: “We have nothing to say on the matter at this stage.” —BBC

http://www.dawn.com/2005/07/22/top4.htm

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Ooops caught with a lie

[Igel]

4. Or a hasty mistake. n/t

[OKNancy]

2. CNN apologized this morning

REALLY early so not many people saw it.

Here is a BBC link as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4704427.stm

[LifeDuringWartime]

3. this happened with a few of the 9/11 hijackers

stolen passports i believe

[pocket]

5. failed frame-up n/t

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[Rex]

6. Sounds of 911?

nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. I can't tell, but some people here may think this means the bomber

has been misidentified. It doesn't. It means the dates the Pakistani authorities gave for his visit to Pakistan are wrong. Hussain (the one from Leeds) did visit Pakistan, according to his family:

Hasib Hussain's family thought time with his relatives in Pakistan might curb the teenager's rebellious streak and stop him spending his time hanging around street corners in Holbeck, drinking beer with local youths.

His parents thought their plan had worked when Hussain returned much calmer and with a newfound enthusiasm about his Muslim faith.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15934802%255E2703,00.html

And the identification of him as being at the bombing still remains.

[ed2004]

8. Not quite

The Pakistanis screwed up (no surprise) and provided the wrong PISCES photo.