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Mohammd Sidique Khan,the ringleader of the July 7 attacks in London,received several calls from Pakistan in which he was provided guidance about making bombs,a court here has been told.
According to the Metropolitan police,mobile phone records analysed after the bombings on July 7 2005 showed that calls were made from phone boxes in Rawalpindi to Khan.
Fifty-two people were killed in the bombs that hit three Tube trains and a bus in London.
Detective Sergeant Mark Stuart said at the ongoing inquest that one of the calls was made on 2 July,five days before the deadly bombings,and lasted six minutes.
Hugo Keith,counsel to the inquests,asked: Did you assess that those calls were connected to some guidance or some means of communicating information concerned with the manufacture of the bombs and then their detonation? Stuart said: Yes,I think they had to be.
The BBC reported that the calls were made from different phone boxes within minutes of each other,suggesting that the caller was intent on concealing identity.
