Five men who helped the bombers in the aftermath of the failed London attacks on July 21, 2005 have been jailed on terror charges, local media reported Monday.
The five men provided the plotters with safe houses, passports, clothing and food, Kingston Crown Court heard, BBC reported.
The five -- Muhedin Ali, 29, Wahbi Mohammed, 25, Ismail Abdurahman, 25, Siraj Ali, 32, and Abdul Sherif, 30, all from London -- were given between seven and 17 years.
The five men, all originally from Africa, were convicted of 22charges of failing to disclose information about terrorism and assisting an offender.
Siraj Ali and Mohammed were also convicted of having prior knowledge of the plot to explode devices on the London transport network.
Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said the two men who knew of the plot before it happened and failed to alert the authorities were "despicable."
Clarke said the others had contributed to the public's fear of terrorism at that time by helping the bombers escape immediate capture.
The four men behind that plot - Muktar Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman - were all jailed for life last year over the attempted attacks.
They had tried to detonate devices on Tube trains at Shepherd's Bush, Warren Street and Oval stations in London and on a bus in Shoreditch, east London. The bombers' attempts failed.
Source:Xinhua
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