WASHINGTON, July 15: A Jamaican believed to have been one of the London suicide bombers had contacts in the United States who are now under investigation by US authorities, ABC television reported on Friday.
Lindsey Germaine was born in Jamaica and had lived in Britain before the July 7 attacks, the report said.
He is thought to have carried one of the three bombs that went off on underground trains.
ABC television said Mr Germaine has a wife in Britain and a mother living in the United States.
It quoted US officials as saying Mr Germaine had been in the United States within the past two years and that contacts he made in Ohio and New Jersey are under investigation.
In Jamaica, Information Minister Burchell Whiteman said the Caribbean government was still trying to determine Mr Germaine’s background.
Mr Whiteman said the foreign ministry was ‘seeking to get as much information as possible and to be of as much help as possible in terms of getting to the truth and providing whatever information or assistance as will become necessary’.
Mr Germaine’s role in the attacks has shaken Jamaican groups with links to the large Jamaican community in Britain.
Jamaica Diaspora-UK said in a statement the Jamaican community ‘unreservedly condemns all acts of terrorism and is deeply saddened by the senseless loss of lives and the injuries suffered by so many people’.
They added ‘Jamaicans who have settled in the United Kingdom are fully integrated into British society and are hard working, loyal citizens who continue to contribute to national development’. —AFP
