UK Terror Threat: BoE names 19 suspects

Britain's central bank today named 19 of the 24 suspects arrested by authorities over an alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound planes, the youngest of them aged just 17.

The Bank of England published the names as it froze the accounts of the 19, meaning it is a crime to make their money available without a license from the finance ministry.

Of the 19, all appeared to be Muslim. The youngest is 17 years old and the oldest 35, while most are in their 20s. Newspapers provided further details of their background.

The 19 men were: Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, from east London; Cossor Ali, 23, from east London; Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, from High Wycombe, about 56 kilometres from London; Nabeel Hussain, 22, from east London; Tanvir Hussain, 25, from east London; Umair Hussain, 24, from east London; Umar Islam, 28, from High Wycombe; Waseem Kayani, 29, from High Wycombe; Assan Abdullah Khan, 21, from east London; Waheed Arafat Khan, 25, from east London; Osman Adam Khatib, 19, from east London; Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, from east London; Tayib Rauf, 22, from Birmingham, west central England; Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, from east London; Assad Sarwar, 26, from High Wycombe; Ibrahim Savant, 25, from east London; Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, from east London; Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 35, from east London; and Waheed Zaman, 22, from east London.

A 20th man was named in several British media outlets - Don Stewart-Whyte, 21, from High Wycombe. They reported that Stewart-Whyte converted to Islam between six months to a year ago and changed his name to Abdul Waheed, married a Muslim woman about a month ago and lived with his widowed mother.