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Syria Releases the 7/7 Mastermind
(Telegraph-UK) Jason Lewis - The terrorist mastermind behind the July 7, 2005, London bombings is reported to have been freed from a Syrian jail by President Bashar Assad's regime. Abu Musab al-Suri had been held in Syria for six years after being captured by the CIA in 2005 and transported to the country of his birth. Al-Suri was al-Qaeda's operations chief in Europe and has been accused of planning the London bombings, in which four British-born terrorists detonated three bombs on the Underground and another on a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 others. He is also wanted in Spain in connection with the Madrid train bombings in 2004, which left 191 dead.