LONDON, Aug 7: Police brought their first substantial charges over last month’s London terror attacks this weekend, as another suspect was deported to Britain from Zambia exactly a month after the first deadly blasts.

The government meanwhile declined to comment on newspaper reports that Saudi officials alerted Britain several weeks before the fatal July 7 suicide bombings that a terror attack was in the works.

In the first indictment of a key suspect, Somali-born Yassin Hassan Omar will appear before a judge in a high-security prison on Monday charged with attempted murder, conspiracy and possession of explosives, police said.

Omar, 24, had been identified as a prime suspect in a bid to bomb the underground subway at Warren Street in central London on July 21 as three others tried to do the same elsewhere in the capital.

He was the first to be charged with a direct role in the bombings which gave the British capital its first taste of violent Islamist extremism, blamed by many on Britain’s military presence in Iraq.

Six others have been charged with failing to reveal information to police, including three men in their early 20s who appeared in court Saturday.

A total of 39 arrests have been carried out in Britain in connection with the London attacks, with 16 still in custody in Britain plus Hamdi Issac, also known as Hussain Osman, who was arrested in Rome.

Police insist they had no prior warning of the July 7 attacks.

But the Observer newspaper quoted on Sunday a security official in the Saudi capital Riyadh as saying that information was passed to MI5 and MI6, Britain’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies respectively.

Meanwhile in Zambia officials confirmed that Briton Haroon Aswad, arrested in Zambia two weeks ago, was being deported to Britain. Aswad 31, has been named in media reports as the alleged mastermind behind the July 7 blasts.—AFP