London suspect studied in US
2005-07-14 20:43
Washington - An Egyptian wanted in connection with the London terrorist bombings studied chemical engineering at North Carolina State University in the United States, said the institution on Thursday.
Magdy El-Nashar, who has links to the house in the English city of Leeds where the bombs were made, spent one semester at North Carolina's chemical engineering department, said Mick Kulikowski, a university spokesperson.
Nashar, 33, was at the university in Raleigh from January to May 2000, Kulikowski said.
According to British media, Nashar's rented house in Leeds was one of six raided by British police on Wednesday, and bomb-making equipment may have been found there.
Nashar had been an assistant professor at Leeds University, but, according to the reports, left Britain just before last week's attacks in the capital, in which at least 53 people died and about 700 were injured.
- SAPA