London bomber made one-day Israel visit

err, a one day trip to Israel… what’s that all about?.. and this guy was cleared by MI5 and “deemed not to be a threat”

London bomber made one-day Israel visit - official

Reuters, 18 Jul 2005

JERUSALEM, July 18 (Reuters) - One of the suspected bombers in the London attacks visited Israel for one day in 2003, an Israeli official said on Monday, bolstering a news report the British-born Muslim helped plan a Tel Aviv suicide bombing.

… But Israeli security sources played down the report, which cited no evidence. “This is not a concrete finding,” a source said on Sunday.

MI5 said bomber was not a threat

BBC, 17 July 2005

One of the London bombers was investigated by MI5 last year but was deemed not to be a threat, it has been revealed.

Re: London bomber made one-day Israel visit

All this attention on these kids having visited their ancestral homeland, Pakistan, and no doubt there would have been many questions asked if they had chosen to go to Iran for a day trip, but a complete denial when we find out that one of them had gone to Israel.