An Egyptian bio-chemist freed in Cairo after questioning over the 7 July London bombs says he is wary of returning to his home in the UK. Magdi al-Nashar, 33, recently completed a chemistry PhD at Leeds University. He says he was held during a trip to Egypt after having innocent contacts with bomber Jermaine Lindsay. | You mean helping him get the flat where the bombs were made? Those "innocent contacts"? |
| Just trying to help the lad make a new start in life. |
He told the BBC he may delay his return to the UK after being held during a holiday in Egypt as he feared people might not know he has been cleared. | Rats, he figured it out. Egypt wouldn't extradite him, but if he returned on his own the Brits could pick him up at the airport for more "questioning". |
Mr Nashar was arrested in Cairo on 15 July. He was freed on Tuesday after the authorities said there was no link between him and the bombs or al-Qaeda. | As far as I can tell, it's only the Egyptian authorities that have made that statement. |
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he met Lindsay at a mosque in Leeds in October 2004. And he had found a location for a bomb lab accommodation for him in the city shortly before the bombings. "He told me his name was Gamal, but from the papers I knew his name was Jermaine Lindsay," he said. | "but his friends just called him Nancy..." |
"...in June he phoned and asked me if I could help him get a flat for his family to move completely from London to Leeds." Mr Nashar said he was concerned after being portrayed as a "a bad person and a terrorist" by some of the media after 7 July. "If somebody has seen my picture on the front page as a terrorist or something like that and then he will not know I am innocent and has seen me in the streets, what will he think?". | That the cops are waiting for the right time to bag you? |
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