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Key dates leading up to the trial
28 Apr 2009Here is a timeline of the major events leading up to the trial of the three men accused of helping the July 7 bombers:
July 29, 2001: July 7 ringleader Mohammed Siddique Khan and defendant Waheed Ali travel together to Pakistan where they attend a training camp learning to use weapons. Khan later travels to the frontline in Afghanistan to fight.
July 24, 2003: Khan and Mohammed Shakil fly to Pakistan where they meet fertiliser bomb plotter Omar Khyam and terrorist Mohammed Babar. They attend a training camp while on a "fact-finding" mission on fighting jihad.
February 2, 2004: Khan, fellow bomber Shezhad Tanweer and Ali travel from Leeds to Slough to meet fertiliser bomb plot mastermind Omar Khyam - watched by security services.
February 21, 28 and March 23, 2004: Further meetings between Khan, Tanweer, Ali and Khyam are monitored by the authorities. They are photographed meeting at a McDonald's car park, conversations are recorded and the group is filmed walking down a south London street.
November 14 - 16, 2004: Khan makes a number of video recordings including a goodbye message to his young daughter ahead of a trip to Pakistan where he is expecting to fight jihad and not return.
November 18, 2004: Khan and Tanweer travel to Pakistan. During the trip the authorities believe there was a change of plan and the July 7 plot was hatched.
December 16 and 17, 2004: The three defendants accompany bombers Hasib Hussain and Jermaine Lindsay on the alleged reconnaissance trip to London.
December 26, 2004: Ali and Sadeer Saleem fly from Manchester Airport to Pakistan where they take part in another terror training camp and are due to join Khan and Tanweer. The pair later get fed up and leave, spending the rest of the trip sightseeing.
February 8, 2005: Khan and Tanweer return from Pakistan and start preparations for the suicide bombings.
February 26, 2005: Ali and Saleem return from Pakistan.
April 15 - June 19, 2005: Bombers Khan, Tanweer, Hussain and occasional visitor Lindsay are captured on CCTV going to and from the bomb factory at Chapeltown Road, Leeds.
June 28, 2005: Khan, Tanweer and Lindsay are caught on CCTV carrying out a dummy run on the London Underground network.
July 7, 2005: The four bombers detonate their devices on the transport system killing 52 people and injuring up to a thousand more.
March 19 - 21, 2007: Ali and Shakil are monitored visiting travel agents and going on a shopping trip for a proposed trip to Pakistan.
March 22, 2007: The pair are arrested at Manchester Airport as they are about to board a flight to Islamabad. Saleem is arrested on the same day at his home.
April 7, 2007: The three men appear in court charged with conspiring with the July 7 bombers to cause explosions and are remanded in custody.
April 30, 2007: Five men, including Khyam, are sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up fertiliser bombs at high-profile venues in the UK including the Bluewater Shopping Centre.
Details are made public that some of the plotters met with Khan and Tanweer but no further action was taken.
May 9, 2007: Police raid properties in Beeston, Dewsbury and Batley, in West Yorkshire, and Selly Oak, in Birmingham. Hasina Patel, the widow of Khan, her brother Arshad, Khalid Khaliq and Imran Motala are arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000. Police begin searching the properties. All four are later released without charge.
April 13, 2008: The first trial of Ali, Shakil and Saleem begins at Kingston Crown Court.
August 1, 2008: Jurors are discharged after they fail to reach a verdict.
January 13, 2009: The second trial of Ali, Shakil and Saleem begins at Kingston Crown Court.
