BoE identifies 19 terror suspects

Published August 12, 2006

LONDON, Aug 11: Names of 19 UK residents arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot to blow up airplanes, as released by the Bank of England: Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25; Cossor Ali, 23; Ibrahim Savant, 25; Amin Asmin Tariq, 23; Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 35; Waheed Zaman, 22; Nabeel Hussain, 22; Tanvir Hussain, 25; Umair Hussain, 24; Assan Abdullah Khan, 21; Waheed Arafat Khan, 25; Osman Adam Khatib, 19; Abdul Muneem Patel, 17; Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, (all from London); Umar Islam, 28; Waseem Kayani, 29; Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, and Assad Sarwar, 26, (from High Wycombe area) and Tayib Rauf, 22, of Birmingham.—AP

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