May 10, 2003	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 7, 1424

LONDON, May 9: The wife, brother and sister of British citizen Omar Khan Sharif, on the run following an April 30 suicide bomb attack in Israel, were remanded in custody on terror charges on Friday, a London court official said.

The three, who had been charged on Thursday under Britain’s terrorism act, were told by a judge at Bow Street magistrates court to reappear at London’s central criminal court, the Old Bailey, on May 19.

Sharif, 27, was the suspected accomplice of Assif Mohammed Hanif, 21, a fellow British Muslim who blew himself up and killed three people in a bomb attack on Mike’s Place pub in Tel Aviv.

Hanif was the first Westerner to commit a suicide attack in Israel since the start of the current Palestinian uprising, in September 2000.—AFP