Scotland Yard arrests London man 'connected' to hijacks
War on terrorism: Suspects
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Your support makes all the difference.A man was arrested in London in connection with the 11 September terror attacks by Scotland Yard officers acting on a request from the FBI.
The suspect, who is 30 and believed to be of Middle-Eastern origin, was detained by officers from the anti-terrorist branch at 10am at his home in Wands-worth, south-west London.
Detectives had questioned the man, who holds a British passport, and searched his house last week as part of FBI inquiries into the terror networks responsible for the American atrocities.
Officers returned to his home yesterday and arrested him under anti-terrorism legislation that relates to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Last night, he was being interviewed at a police station in central London.
The FBI has asked Scotland Yard to investigate about 24 terror suspects thought to be living in Britain. Anti-terrorist officers are also following up more than 200 other lines of inquiry forwarded by the FBI. Those include details of suspects and bank accounts thought to have been used to launder and channel money to finance acts of terrorism.
Scotland Yard says that, of the suspects already investigated, three people in Britain allegedly had "strong links" to the suicide hijackings.
The three included an Algerian pilot, Lotfi Raissi, awaiting extradition to the United States, who is alleged to have trained some of the suicide hijackers.
Habib Zacarias Moussaoui, who lived in Brixton, south London, is alleged to have been the "20th hijacker" and is already in custody in America.
A third man, arrested in Birmingham but released, is still being investigated.
Scotland Yard have also arrested Yasser al-Siri, the director of the Islamic Observation Centre in London in connection with the assassination in September of the Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood. He denies the charge and is currently on remand.
* A British Transport Police special constable was charged yesterday with making a hoax call when he allegedly reported to Scotland Yard that a fictitious person had gone missing during the 11 September attacks. Mehboob Asghar, 19, of Ilford, Essex, who denies making the call, will appear at Horseferry Road magistrates' court, London, today.
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