Seventh man charged over suicide bombing plot

A SEVENTH terror suspect is being charged over the alleged UK suicide bombing plot, prosecutors said last night.

Mujahid Hussain will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today accused of helping fund the plan and providing information of “material assistance”.

Six men have already been remanded in custody after the “significant” counter-terror operation by police in Birmingham.

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The deputy head of the Crown Prosecution Service special crime and counter-terror division, Deborah Walsh, said she authorised West Midlands Police to make the twin charges.

The 20-year-old suspect is accused of “entering into a funding arrangement for the purposes of terrorism” and “failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism”, she added.

The first charge reads that, before September 19, he “entered into or became concerned in an arrangement as a result of which money or other property was to be made available to another, knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that it would or might be used for the purposes of terrorism”.

The second charge against him details that, between July 29 and September 19, he had “information which he knew or believed might be of material assistance in securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of another person, in the United Kingdom, for an offence involving the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism and did not disclose the information as soon as reasonably practicable”.

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The other six defendants appeared at West London Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Some of them are accused of wanting to be suicide bombers, having trained for terror in Pakistan and having raised money for terrorism.

The men, all from Birmingham and said to be part of a terror network, were remanded in custody by deputy senior district judge Daphne Wickham.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for terror suspect Babar Ahmad to be tried in the UK instead of being extradited to the US.

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Supporters from Free Babar Ahmad have collected more than 12,000 signatures for an e-petition, a campaign spokesman said.

Ahmad has spent seven years in British high-security prisons without trial as he fights extradition to the US on terror charges.

The American authorities accuse the computer expert of running websites that urged Muslims to fight holy war.