UK police charge two women in London bomb probe

LONDON (Reuters) – British police charged two women under
anti-terrorism laws on Thursday for failing to give police
information after the botched July 21 attempts to bomb London.

Police said Yeshshiembet Girma, 28, and Muluemebet Girma,
21, of London, will appear at the capital’s Bow Street
Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged under the Terrorism Act
2000.

They were arrested on July 27 in an armed raid on a public
housing estate in the Stockwell area of south London.

Police accused them of failing to give information to
detectives which could help convict someone “for an offence
involving the commission, preparation or instigation of an act
of terrorism.”

The failed bombings on July 21 came two weeks after four
suicide bombers killed 52 people in three underground trains
and a bus. Police have linked the suicide bombers to al Qaeda.

Thousands of police took to the streets on Thursday to
reassure jittery Londoners as al Qaeda warned there would be
more attacks.