LONDON, 11 July 2007 — A jury of nine women and three men sitting at Woolwich Crown Court in south London yesterday failed to reach a verdict on the remaining two 21/7 terror suspects — Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, and Adel Yahya, 24, who could either face a retrial or be released without further charges.

The trial judge, Justice Fulford gave crown prosecutors until today to decide whether Asiedu and Yahya would face a retrial.

He ordered that the two remaining defendants be remanded to custody but accepted that a bail application on behalf of Yahya may be made later.

Asiedu was accused of being the “fifth” bomber targeting White City station but who subsequently got cold feet and abandoned his bomb in bushes at Little Wormwood Scrubs.

He insisted the bombs were real, but that he was duped into carrying them.

Crown prosecutor, Nigel Sweeney QC, claimed Yahya of High Road, Tottenham, north London, was part of the “inner circle” of bombers and accused him of playing an important behind-the-scenes planning and logistics role.

Yahya denied all knowledge of the conspiracy.

On Monday, the jury convicted four of the six Al-Qaeda-linked men involved in the 21/7 failed bombing plot against London’s transport network, including the ringleader Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, an Eritrean asylum seeker known as ‘the Emir’; Yassin Omar, 26, from Somalia; Ramzi Mohammed, 25, also from Somalia, and Hussein Osman from Ethiopia.

They were all found guilty of attempted murder and conspiracy to cause explosions on the London transport system on 21 July 2005, two weeks after the 7/7 terrorist suicide attacks in London in which 52 innocent people were killed and the four bombers.

The convicted four will be sentenced later this week and could each face life in prison, most likely with a strong recommendation by Justice Fulford, that they be deported to their countries of origin once they serve their sentences.

The judge praised and thanked the jury of nine women and three men, stressing that their “patience, good humor and perseverance in the face of this lengthy trial has been exemplary. These are only words, but you have my whole-hearted thanks.”

“Many of you have made significant and personal sacrifices to participate in these proceedings and you have had to make very important decisions having reviewed a huge weight of evidence. The fact you were unable to reach a verdict on two of the defendants does not in any way reflect badly on any of you.”

He also said that none of the jurors would have to take part in jury service again.

Already stark questions are being asked about the Home Office, police and security services in the case.

The Conservative Opposition shadow home secretary, David Davis, said systemic failings allowed Muktar Ibrahim to attend a Jihadi training camp in Pakistan while on bail in the UK.

Opposition politicians want to know why the Home Office granted Mukhtar Said Ibrahim citizenship in 2004 even though he had a criminal record, including a conviction for child molesting.

They want to know why MI5 did nothing to focus on the five terrorist plotters after they were caught on film with 20 other ‘Jihadists’ at a training camp in the Lake District in northern England. They want to know why the threat posed by Ibrahim was not recognized despite the fact his known extremist views and his links to radical cleric Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque. They want to know why Hussein Osman was allowed to ‘escape’ by the police when they had him in their sights and were ordered not to ‘engage’ him after the shooting dead of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July.

Opposition politicians yesterday also urged Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick to introduce screening technology to scan passengers and vehicles at British airports, because long security and check-in queues make “excellent targets” for terrorists.

He warned that home-grown and other terrorists are learning from their counterparts in Iraq where civilians are regularly targeted at checkpoints. Yesterday Britain’s top terrorist hunter, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard’s Counter-Terrorism Unit, reiterated that 21 July plotters were “dedicated terrorists” and the four had told “ridiculous lies” to escape justice.

“These men obviously set out to replicate the horrors that had been inflicted on Londoners on 7 July 2005. But no one will forget the impact or the consequences of what they did — coming just two weeks after 52 innocent people had been murdered by other terrorists.”

“Despite the carnage of 7 July, on 21 July the public responded courageously, and without thought for their own safety,” he added.

Meanwhile, Dr. Kafeel Ahmed, the terror suspect injured in the burning Jeep Cherokee attack on Glasgow Airport is unlikely to survive, according to one of the doctors to attend to him after the failed attempted attack.

“The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to survive. He has third-degree burns over most of his torso and limbs. It is beyond repair and because he has lost so much skin he is now vulnerable to infection and wont be able to fight it,” the doctor told Sky News on the condition of anonymity.

Ahmed, 27, an aeronautical engineer from India, was transferred under sedation to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the early hours of Monday in an intensive care ambulance. He is under constant armed police guard.

His alleged co-bomber Dr. Bilal Abdullah, 27, has already been charged in connection with the attempted attacks in London and Glasgow. Seven other people have been arrested by police in Britain and Australia.