Who's Who in the Airline Bombing plot

Who's Who in the Airline Bombing plot

published August 14, 2006 | updated since

(dates of Birth are given British style of Day / Month / Year)

The people listed here were all arrested and held pending further charges.

On 22 August, 2006 The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) announced that the following were charged:

Ahmed Abdullah Ali, Tanvir Hussain, Umar Islam (also known as Brian Young), Arafat Waheed Khan, Assad Ali Sarwar, Adam Khatib, Ibrahim Savant and Waheed Zaman.

The charges came shortly after the woman charged -- Cossar Ali -- launched a legal bid at London's High Court to have her detention ruled unlawful. Her lawyer told judges she had been charged at the start of proceedings.

The head of the CPS's counter-terrorism division, Susan Hemming, said the charges had been laid "at the earliest practicable opportunity" after she had personally sized up the evidence against each individual.

"Eight individuals have been charged with two offences relating to an alleged plot to manufacture and smuggle the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board," she told reporters in central London.

"Those individuals have been charged with conspiracy to murder and the new offence of preparing acts of terrorism contrary to section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006," she said.

Of the three others, "one has been charged with possession of articles useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism and two with failing to disclose information of material assistance in preventing an act of terrorism.

"One woman has been released from custody without charge."

Abdula Ahmed Ali
DoB 10/10/1980
Address Walthamstow, London

Brother to Assan Abdullan Khan (see below)

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Cossor Ali
DoB 04/12/1982
Address London E17

Wife to Abdula Ammed Ali and sister-in-law to Assan Abdullan Khan

She launched a legal bid at London's High Court to have her detention ruled unlawful. Her lawyer told judges she had been charged at the start of proceedings.

Shazad Khuram Ali
DoB 11/06/1979
Address High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Mohammad Al Ghadar

Arrested in Pakistan

Nabeel Hussain
DoB 10/03/1984
Address London E4

Nabeel lived with a group of youngsters in Royston Gardens and worked in the administration department at nearby St Anne's Hospital.

He recently travelled to Pakistan, but a friend said: "He took his gran who is elderly. It was a simple as that. It was a holiday." The brother's dad Fazil wept yesterday as he declared: "My boys wouldn't hurt a fly."

Tanvir Hussain
DoB 21/02/1981
Address Leyton, E10

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Umair Hussain
DoB 09/10/1981
Address London E14

Umar Islam
DoB 23/04/1978
Address High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Umar Islam is a White Male born Brian Young. He is stated to have converted to Islam about 3 years ago.

Waseem Kayani
DoB 28/04/1977
Address High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Ahmed Al Khan

Arrested in Pakistan

Assan Abdullah Khan
DoB 24/10/1984
Address London E17

A trainee probation officer, Chelsea fan Assan Abdullah Khan, 21, is doing a degree at the University of Hertfordshire while working.

Waheed Arafat Khan
This name also apears as Arafat Waheed Khan in other reports
DoB 18/05/1981
Address London E17

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Ahmed Al Khan, Assan Abdullah Khan, and Waheed Arafat Khan are reported to be brothers and their father's only sons.

See also Cossor Ali (above).

Osman Adam Khatib
Also Known as "Adam Khatib"
DoB 07/12/1986
Address London E17

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Abdul Muneem Patel
DoB 17/04/1989
Address London E5

The youngest of those held is Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, who married his childhood sweetheart Sofia Kapadia just a few months ago in Hackney. Football-mad Liverpool fan.

Rashid Rauf

Arrested in Pakistan.

Sources said Rashid Rauf was father of Tayyab Rauf, a suspect who was arrested in United Kingdom last year in connection with 7/7 London train blasts.

Rashid Rauf was arrested in the city of Bahawalpur in southern Punjab state. Mr. Rauf, a brother of one of the suspects arrested in England, has been described in some media reports as having connections to Al Qaeda and the Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Muhammed (based in Bahawalpur), and is believed to have been in Pakistan to raise funds and to consort with other militants in plotting the scheme.

His father, Abdul Rauf, a businessman, 52, is being questioned by Pakistani security services over his involvement with a charity he helped found.

Tayib Rauf
DoB 26/04/1984
Address Birmingham

A swirl of attention has focused on the role that the brothers Rashid and Tayib Rauf may have played in the airliner plot. Their father, Abdul Rauf, immigrated to Britain from the Mirpur district of Pakistan several decades ago, and his five children were all born in Britain, the family said.

Rashid Rauf was arrested about a week ago along the Pakistan-Afghan border, and Pakistani officials have characterized him as a "key person" in the airline plot. They said evidence linked him to an "Afghanistan-based al-Qaida connection" but gave no details.

His 22-year-old brother, Tayib, was taken into custody in Britain during the sweeps that nabbed 24 people here, and unconfirmed reports said a third brother might have been detained.

The Rauf family is thought to be of Kashmiri origin. Rashid Rauf left the UK in 2002 after his uncle was stabbed to death. He was wanted for questioning regarding the killing. The family home in Birmingham has also been previously searched by police following the stabbing of a black IT worker in the area. Rauf is thought to be an explosives expert who trained members of the British bomb team in Pakistan, as well as many other young men passing through Islamic camps.

Muhammed Usman Saddique
DoB 23/04/1982
Address Walthamstow E17

Pizza shop worker Muhammed Usman Sad-dique, (sic) 22, was held at Albert Road, Walthamstow, where he lives with his parents, two older brothers, their wives and two young children. The family has lived there since 1978. A neighbour said: "He's the only one with a traditional Muslim beard. He worships at the mosque."

Amjad Sarwar
Assad Sarwar
AKA Assad Ali Sarwar
DoB 24/05/1980
Address High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Brothers Amjad and Assad Sarwar, both in their 20s, and both married were said to be polite and friendly. Amjad reportedly has a child.

Both were regular visitors to the Islamic Education Centre in nearby Totteridge.

Ibrahim Savant
DoB 19/12/1980
Address London E17

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Ibrahim Savant is a white male from Walthamstow, east London. An accountant, he changed his name from Oliver Savant when he converted, according to neighbours.

The 25-year-old student, whose Muslim wife, Atika Sidyot, is reportedly pregnant, was arrested at his family home in Folkestone Road.

According to the electoral register, a number of males named Savant occupy the home along with a woman called Marilyn Moseley. The family live in one of six 1960s terraced houses at the end of a street of Victorian homes. A number of mosques are in the area and a madrassa, an Islamic school, is run near by.

Atika Sidyot

Eight months pregnant. Wife to muslim convert Ibrahim Savant. Amin Asmin Tariq
DoB 07/06/1983
Address Walthamstow E17

Jet Airways has confirmed that Amin Asmin Tariq, was an employee of the organisation and has been suspended from the job with immediate effect.

Shamin Mohammed Uddin
DoB 22/11/1970
Address Stoke Newington, London

The oldest of those arrested. USA Today suggests that he was the common link to everybody else arrested. See Police eye money trail in airliner plot

Abdul Waheed

Waheed is a White Male. Birth name was Don Stewart-Whyte until he changed his name to Adbul Waheed after converting to Islam around February 2006. The 21-year-old was seized as he returned home from work at an electrical shop late on Wednesday.August 9, 2006. He drove straight into an ambush by up to 20 officers. The window of his car was smashed and he was dragged from the vehicle on his mother's driveway, in Hepplewhite Close, High Wycombe, north of London.

Don Stewart-Whyte, is the half-brother of a supermodel once married to French tennis player Yannick Noah.

Catwalk model Heather Stewart-Whyte said she had never met her half-brother, who reportedly "went off the rails" after the death of their father.

Waheed Zaman
DoB 27/05/1984
Address London E17

Charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism 22 August, 2006

Waheed Zaman, 22, a bio-chemistry student and the president of the Islamic Society at London Metropolitan University, was one of 24 people arrested last week. Material found at two portable buildings used by the society includes documents advocating jihad and a pamphlet on how to deal with approaches from the security services. He and several other of the suspects prayed at the Masjid-e-Umer mosque at 79 Queens Road, Walthamstow.