Report: Britain Launches Manhunt for Moroccan National (Mohammed al-Gerbouzi) in Bomb Probe
Ha'aretz | 7/09/2005 | Aluff Benn, Yossi Melmen and Roni Singer
 

The investigation into the London bombings which left nearly 50 dead and hundreds injured Thursday appears to be focusing on a Moroccan national who has mysteriously gone missing from the British capital in recent days.

Scotland Yard and MI5 have urgently requested help from European agencies in tracking down a Moroccan national who has been living in Britain for 16 years and who is suspected of past terrorist activity in Europe and North Africa, the daily newspaper The Independent reported in Saturday editions.

Mohammed al-Gerbouzi, who has also been linked to terrorist attacks in Madrid and Casablanca, disappeared from his home in London recently.

French and German security officials have accused al-Gerbouzi of having links with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of the Islamic insurgency in Iraq said to be connected to Al-Qaida, the newspaper reported.
 

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