Prosecutor: Terror suspect had Tony Blair address
LONDON — A man accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Britain had former Prime Minister Tony Blair's address in his car, a prosecutor said Tuesday during opening arguments in a trial held under contentious conditions of secrecy.
Erol Incedal, a 26-year-old Londoner, is accused of preparing a terrorist act and possessing bomb-making instructions. He denies the charges.
In opening arguments at a London criminal court, lawyer Richard Whittam said the Blair address might be significant, though prosecutors don't argue that Incedal "had settled on a specific target or a particular methodology" for an attack.
He said Incedal may have been planning to attack a "significant" individual or to stage indiscriminate Mumbai-style shootings.
As leader, Blair took the U.K. into the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a decision that remains widely unpopular in Britain.
Whittam said the piece of paper with Blair's address was found in a glasses case in Incedal's car when he was stopped for a traffic offense in September 2013. He said that during the search, police placed a listening device in the car.
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