martin schulz
07-13-2005, 03:42 AM
...well, I am impressed about the speed and accuracy with which the british police collected the evidence and tracked down the suicide bombers (I mean who they are/were):
Young and British - the London suicide bombers
The face of terrorism in Britain has changed for ever as police established that the London bomb blitz was carried out by four suicide bombers.
At least three were British-born, from outwardly respectable families of Pakistani origin.
They lived quietly in the Leeds area and none had criminal records.
Their identities emerged after police raided a number of addresses in West Yorkshire, including the dead men's homes.
In one, they found an apparent bomb factory, but the man who made the devices is thought to have fled the country days ago.
Police are trying desperately to discover if other devices have been distributed to would-be attackers.
A car in which the bombers drove south was discovered at Luton railway station.
From there they took a train to King's Cross, where they have been spotted on CCTV film "looking happy and carefree, as if they were going on holiday" said a security source. Shehzad Tanweer, 22, carried his bomb on to the train which was blasted at Aldgate. A keen local cricketer and sports science student, he lived with his parents, who run a fish and chip shop in the Beeston area of Leeds.
A second Leeds man, 30-year-old Mohammed Sadique Khan, who was married, boarded the train which blew up at Edgware Road.
A third man, about whom no details have yet emerged, was on the train which was devastated near Russell Square station.
At 8.50am, the time they had pre-arranged, they detonated their explosives.
The fourth suicide bomber was 19-year-old Hasib Mir Hussain, who lived with his Pakistani-born factory worker parents in a rundown Leeds suburb.
He died almost an hour later, when he triggered his bomb on a number 30 bus in Tavistock Square.
Young and British - the London suicide bombers
The face of terrorism in Britain has changed for ever as police established that the London bomb blitz was carried out by four suicide bombers.
At least three were British-born, from outwardly respectable families of Pakistani origin.
They lived quietly in the Leeds area and none had criminal records.
Their identities emerged after police raided a number of addresses in West Yorkshire, including the dead men's homes.
In one, they found an apparent bomb factory, but the man who made the devices is thought to have fled the country days ago.
Police are trying desperately to discover if other devices have been distributed to would-be attackers.
A car in which the bombers drove south was discovered at Luton railway station.
From there they took a train to King's Cross, where they have been spotted on CCTV film "looking happy and carefree, as if they were going on holiday" said a security source. Shehzad Tanweer, 22, carried his bomb on to the train which was blasted at Aldgate. A keen local cricketer and sports science student, he lived with his parents, who run a fish and chip shop in the Beeston area of Leeds.
A second Leeds man, 30-year-old Mohammed Sadique Khan, who was married, boarded the train which blew up at Edgware Road.
A third man, about whom no details have yet emerged, was on the train which was devastated near Russell Square station.
At 8.50am, the time they had pre-arranged, they detonated their explosives.
The fourth suicide bomber was 19-year-old Hasib Mir Hussain, who lived with his Pakistani-born factory worker parents in a rundown Leeds suburb.
He died almost an hour later, when he triggered his bomb on a number 30 bus in Tavistock Square.