Ethiopian-born Briton appeared in court on Friday charged with attempted murder and possessing explosives as part of the botched attacks by four would-be bombers on the London transport system on July 21.
Hussein Osman, also known as Hamdi Issac, was flown from Italy on Thursday with British police officers to a Royal Air Force base at Northolt in west London after failing to have his extradition blocked.
Security was tight around the maximum security court in south east London. All cars were searched and there was rigorous screening of people entering the building. Osman, 27, was brought to court in a van flanked by two other police vehicles.
He was wearing a light blue shirt. He was charged with seven offences, including attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, explosive offences and preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
He was remanded in custody until Dec. 8 and no application for bail was made.
The July 21 attacks killed no one but brought chaos to the capital, mimicking attacks two weeks earlier by four British Muslim suicide bombers who killed 52 people on three underground trains and a bus.
British police accuse Osman and three others -- Ibrahim Muktar Said, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Hassan Omar -- of trying to set off bombs on three underground trains and a bus. The police say the devices failed to detonate.
Osman was captured in Rome a week after the failed attacks and is accused of trying to blow up a train at Shepherd’s Bush in west London.
Said, Mohammed and Omar were arrested in Britain and have been charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to murder and explosive offences.
Osman’s Italian lawyers had fought his extradition from Italy, arguing they had not received proof a crime had been committed.
