United Kingdom: Terrorist’s Wife Gets Fifteen Years
Photo of Yeshi Girma (unveiled), the wife of the July 21 bomber, courtesy of Yahoo! News (IK)
YAHOO! NEWS: The wife of July 21 bomber Hussain Osman has been jailed for 15 years at the Old Bailey.

Yeshi Girma, 32, knew all about her husband's plot to kill innocent people on July 21, 2005 and could have stopped it from going ahead.

But she failed to tell police about his plan to attack Shepherd's Bush Tube station.

Just over half an hour after his failed attack Osman was on the phone to his wife to set in motion an escape plan.

Girma, the mother of Osman's three children, helped him flee to Brighton. He later took a Eurostar train to Paris then travelled on to Rome, where he was arrested.

She knew her husband had fallen under the spell of radical Islamists and even allowed him to take their young son away to a training camp in Cumbria where he met four of the five other July 21 plotters.

Her fingerprints were discovered on tapes featuring "extremist Islamic preaching" by firebrands such as Abu Hamza.

Her brother Esayas Girma, 22, and sister Mulu Girma, 24, were jailed for ten years.

Yeshi and Esayas, both from Stockwell, south London, and Mulu, from Brighton, were all found guilty of assisting an offender and failing to disclose information about Osman's involvement in the July 21 attacks.

Mulu's boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi, 25, from Brighton, admitted assisting Osman and failing to disclose information before the trial began and was jailed for nine years.

Judge Paul Worsley said: "When Osman's suicide mission, aimed at mass slaughter, failed, each of you in different ways assisted him to escape justice so that he could flee to Italy to be able to strike again.

"I have no doubt that each of you were prepared to aid a ruthless fanatic and that in so doing each of you must have harboured the hope that the bombers would ultimately be successful in their mission to seek to damage our society." [Source: Terrorist’s Wife Gets 15 Years] | June 12, 2008

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Four Jihadis Get Life in Prison for July 21 Plot

Photos of ”the convicted men (clockwise from top left): Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, Hussain Osman and Ramzi Mohammed. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA” courtesy of The Guardian

THE GUARDIAN: The four convicted July 21 bombers were today jailed for life for an al-Qaida-led plot to murder dozens of people on London's public transport network.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussain Osman could not be considered for release for 40 years, judge Mr Justice Fulford QC said.

Their plan had been "a viable, indeed a very nearly successful, attempt at mass murder", he told Woolwich crown court in south-east London. Four July 21 plotters jailed for life (more)

Mark Alexander

Four Muslims Found Guilty

Photos courtesy of The Guardian

THE GUARDIAN: Four men were today found guilty of an extreme Islamist plot to detonate bombs on tube trains and a bus in London on July 21 2005.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman were convicted of conspiracy to murder over the failed attack, which aimed to mirror the carnage of two weeks before when on July 7 four suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 other people on public transport around London.

Ibrahim, 29, of Stoke Newington, north London, Omar, 26, of New Southgate, north London and Mohammed, 25, of North Kensington, west London, were found guilty this morning in unanimous verdicts from the jury of nine women and three men at Woolwich crown court.

Osman, 28, of no fixed address, was convicted this afternoon after the trial judge, Mr Justice Fulford QC, told the jurors, who were on their seventh day of deliberations, that he would accept majority verdicts of 10-2 for the remaining defendants. Four found guilty over July 21 bomb plot (more) By Peter Walker and agencies

Mark Alexander