(Guardian-UK) Vikram Dodd - The wife, sister, and brother of British suicide bomber Omar Sharif knew he was traveling to Israel intent on murdering innocent civilians but did nothing to warn of the attacks, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told a British court on Monday. Sharif and fellow Briton Asif Hanif traveled to Israel last April and launched a suicide attack on a bar in Tel Aviv, killing three people and injuring 65. The prosecution alleges the three defendants had known for a week that Sharif and Hanif would carry out the bombing and had failed to tell the police.
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