UK police charge man with owning al Qaeda manual

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LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) A man arrested by British police investigating the London suicide bombings of July 7, 2005 has been charged with possessing an al Qaeda training manual, London's Metropolitan Police force said.

Khalid Khaliq, 34, from Beeston in Leeds, northern England, is due to appear before magistrates in a London court today.

Charges against Khaliq, who was arrested on May 9 along with three others, state he ''possessed a document or record -- namely the Al-Qaeda Training Manual -- containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism''.

The May 9 police operation was the second wave of arrests within weeks in the vast and long-running investigation into the 7/7 attacks, which killed 52 people on three London underground trains and a bus.

One of those arrested was identified by a source familiar with the investigation as the widow Hasina Patel, whose husband Mohammad Sidique Khan was one of four young British Muslims who blew themselves up in the 7/7 attacks. Patel and the two other men arrested were released without charge.

Three men were charged last month with conspiring with those who carried out the 7/7 attack, the first suicide bombings by Islamist militants in Western Europe.

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