Relatives of would-be suicide bomber charged
The three, who had been charged on Thursday under Britain’s Terrorism Act 2000, were told by a judge at Bow Street magistrates court to reappear at London’s central criminal court, the Old Bailey, on May 19. Sharif, 27, was the suspected accomplice of Assif Mohammed Hanif, 21, a fellow British Muslim who blew himself up and killed three people in a bomb attack on Mike’s Place pub in Tel Aviv.
Hanif was the first westerner to commit a suicide attack in Israel since the start of the current Palestinian uprising, in September 2000. Sharif is believed by Israeli authorities to have fled after failing to set off his own bomb. His British passport, and Hanif’s, were splashed over the front pages of British and Israeli newspapers the day after the bombing.
