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London attacks: 6 off the hook
18/07/2005 12:58 - (SA)
Islamabad - Pakistani security officials said on Monday they had interrogated six people who had contacts with the family of one of the London suicide bombers, but cleared them of any links to the attacks.
Phone calls had been made to some Pakistanis from the house of one of the bombers.
An anonymous security official said the British government provided names and telephone numbers of some individuals to Pakistan for information after the July 7 attacks.
Three of the four bombers were British nationals of Pakistani origin.
Security officials said they interrogated six people about their links with the family of one of the bombers, Shahzad Tanweer.
A senior security official said: "We have established that these people had business contacts with the family of Tanweer back in London."
Telephone calls 'not linked to the attack'
He said: "The six interrogated are all cleared now.
"The telephone calls were made only for business purposes and they were not linked in any way to the attacks."
Officials said Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, and Tanweer, 22, arrived together at Karachi Airport in November 2004 and returned to Britain early in February.
The officials said Hasib Hussain, 18, the youngest of the three ethnic Pakistani Britons, came separately at an undisclosed time last year, also to Karachi, and went back to Britain shortly afterwards.
The officials said: "We have not been able to establish whom they had been meeting here."
The officials were talking about Tanweer and another suspect, Siddiq Khan, who spent nearly four months in Pakistan between November last year and February this year.
The security official denied Pakistani authorities had made any arrests related to the London attacks, which killed at least 55 people and injured about 700.
"We have not made any arrest in Pakistan in connection with the London bombing."
- AFP
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