Al Qaeda cell in London: WikiLeaks
May 16th, 2011 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANSLondon, May 16 (IANS) A terror cell of the Al Qaeda - dubbed the “London Boys” - is active in Britain, and four members of the unit were trained at an extremist camp in Somalia, according to files revealed by WikiLeaks.
Classified documents on extremist detainees at Guantanamo Bay that were made public by the whistleblowing website say the “London Boys” were trained by Al Qaeda’s top bomb expert at the camp in Somalian capital Mogadishu, The Sun reported.
The four trainees were detained in Somalia in 2007 but claimed they were there “innocently”.
The British Foreign Office later rescued them at an estimated cost of 50,000 pounds. After being quizzed by London’s Metropolitan Police, they were released without charge.
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