Salahuddin Amin update. From Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei:
Salahuddin Amin, who was arrested at Heathrow last week as he stepped off a flight from Pakistan, was charged with “maliciously conspiring with others to cause by explosive substances … an explosion likely to endanger life”.
He is accused along with six Britons and a Canadian, who were arrested last year following Britain’s biggest anti-terrorism operation since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Police said then that they had seized more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, which can be used to make bombs, in a west London warehouse….
Amin, 29, who appeared at Bow Street magistrates court on Monday, issued a statement after the hearing denying the charges and alleging he had been tortured in Pakistan.
“On April 2, 2004, I surrendered myself to authorities in Pakistan and was detained in the most despicable conditions for 10 months,” he said in the statement read by his lawyer Fariquain Shah outside court.
“Throughout my detention I was tortured mentally and physically and subjected to interrogation by British, American and Pakistani intelligence authorities.”…
“My only crime was I took it upon myself to provide water, food and shelter to the widows and orphans of the Afghan war,” his statement said.