Row over French bomb arrest claim

Mohammed Sadique Khan had married for love. Flouting the cultural conventions of his community, he rejected an arranged marriage. Instead, the 30-year-old learning assistant and mentor married Hasina, the girl he met and fell in love with while studying at Leeds University.

His parents were from Pakistan, hers from Gujarat in India. But despite the differences, they married four years ago and only a few months ago set up home close to Hasina's widowed mother in a council housing estate in Dewsbury, away from Khan's normal stamping ground close to where he was born in a run- down part of south Leeds.

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Two were arrested in Uxbridge, west London, three in Crawley, West Sussex, and one each in Ilford, east London, Slough, Berkshire, and Horley, Surrey.

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Police sources also admitted that the name of one of the bombers had emerged during a major anti-terrorist operation last year. But he was neither arrested nor questioned.
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The fourth bomber was named unofficially last night as Ejaz Fiaz, thought to be in his early thirties. His home in Leeds was still being searched.

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Schizophrenic Elvis Presley fan Ejaz Fiaz is now understood to have been the fourth man to take part in the terrorist attack on the capital.
Originally from Beeston in Leeds, Fiaz is thought to have moved initially to Leicester and then to Luton with his wife and two children two years ago.
Chillingly, Fiaz's favourite Elvis song is Make the World Go Away, which he played constantly.
Fiaz, known to many people as Jaxy, is now thought to be the man who joined the three Leeds men at Luton before setting out on the deadly mission.
His younger brother, Naveed, was arrested at his Stratford Terrace home on Tuesday morning when officers from the Metropolitan and West Yorkshire police forces carried out a massive co-ordinated series of raids on a number of homes in the Leeds and Dewsbury area.
Ejaz, together with his two younger brothers and three sisters, lived for many years at an address in Stratford Street. The property was stripped bare when Ejaz moved to Luton.
However, it is believed the mid-terrace home was used as a venue for meetings of the terrorist cell, with gatherings of up to 10 people taking place at the property starting as late as 3am.
It is now screened off from public view and is the subject of a detailed forensic investigation.

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The Times names the three of the suspected suicide bombers as Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, the married father of an eight-month-old baby, who is believed to have planted the bomb at Edgware Road
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In Dewsbury, police raided a redbrick council semi in Lees Holme and a modern bungalow in Thornhill Park.

Farida Patel, an Asian woman, is believed to live at the bungalow with her daughter, Hasina, and son, Arshad. Later yesterday police took away a Honda and a silver Ford Escort from the house. The Independent says Mrs Patel's daughter Hasina, 23, had been living in Lees Holme since January with her husband Rashid Facha - in his late 20s and of Pakistani extraction - and their eight-month-old daughter. A neighbour said Mr Facha had been missing since last Thursday.

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