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| Failed London Bombers "Ready to strike again" |
| 2005-07-27 |
| The fugitive bombers who bungled their attacks on Londonâs transport system last week returned to their secret cache of explosives to rearm themselves for another assault, Scotland Yard believes. I'm guessing that if they do, they'll hit someplace other than London. People will have seen the CCTV pics, but they won't be expecting them in their town. Immediately after the bombings up to three of the men who tried to blow up three Tube trains and a bus were seen by a neighbour at the ninth-floor flat in New Southgate, North London, that they were using as a bomb factory. Witnesses claim that some of the suspects made a second trip the next day to the flat where police yesterday found chemicals and bombmaking materials. I wonder how these witnesses got this information to the police. Did they call it in, or grudgingly give it up when the police showed up at their door? The men who lived at the flat, Muktar Said-Ibrahim, 27, who tried to bomb a London bus, and Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, the Warren Street attacker, were described by a neighbour who met them as looking âstartled and dishevelledâ. They fled shortly before police established last Friday that the flat had been used as a base. It emerged last night that Ibrahim, 27, was granted a British passport despite a criminal record for violence. It also emerged that his parents identified him to police after CCTV pictures of him were released. He was jailed by Luton Crown Court for five years when he was 17 for being part of a gang that carried out a series of muggings at knifepoint at Hertfordshire railway stations. One former friend said that he turned to radical Islam while in prison. I keep waiting to here about radical Methodists. He qualified for early release in 1998 and is then alleged to have met Richard Reid, the jailed âshoe bomberâ, at two London mosques. Reid, who was also a petty criminal, tried to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic in 2001. Immigration officials disclosed that Ibrahim and Omar came to Britain as child refugees. Omar came from Somalia as a 10-year-old in 1992. Ibrahim arrived with his parents in the same year from Eritrea, aged 14. Barely ten months ago, he swore allegiance to the Crown when he became a British citizen. Police are investigating how he was granted citizenship with a criminal record. A key condition for naturalisation is that applicants should be âof good characterâ. Officers also want to know if he applied for citizenship in order to obtain a British passort. Nothing has been seen since of the would-be suicide bombers and police believe that they are being sheltered by supporters in London. They fear that they will break cover only to strike again. Must be some of those moderate muslims we keep getting lectured about. Passport checks have been reimposed for everyone leaving the country in an attempt to prevent the four suspects from fleeing abroad. Controls were imposed after the first wave of bombings on July 7 and were back in place only four days after being lifted. As Britainâs biggest manhunt went into its sixth day, detectives confirmed to The Times that they are convinced that a fifth bomber is on the loose. He is believed to have discarded his bomb in a park near Wormwood Scrubs prison. Scientists say that it contained the same type of explosives as those used in the botched attacks. Detectives found âa substantial amountâ of explosives in the towerblock at Curtis House, in bins and in a lock-up garage on the estate. So much explosive has been discovered at different sites since the original July 7 attacks that killed 52 people, that police cannot be sure how much the cell possesses. Armed police seized a car used by one of the bombers, which was found abandoned a few miles from the council flat that Ibrahim and Omar shared.Streets near the North Circular Road in East Finchley were sealed off as bomb disposal teams searched the white Volkswagen Golf. Police told how Ibrahim was identified by his own parents. His family spoke of their shock at discovering their sonâs involvement in terrorism and condemned his actions. âWe are a peaceful family, having lived in this country since 1990,â a family statement said. Yep. Peaceful, you damn infidel! Police are still checking identifications of the other two men who took part in the attacks. Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said that senior officers had come close to allowing officers to fire on terrorist suspects seven times since the July 7 bombings. They had been asked to assess the risk of a terrorist 250 times in the past 20 days. Doctors in London have been asked by police to alert them if they are consulted by any âyoung men of Asian appearanceâ with back injuries. |
| Posted by:Hupomolet Snaviter8470 |
| #5 Mehopes CCTV footage has been retained so MI5 and the PO's track the scum's comings and goings so as to visit the supporters' homes for a little chat. Forget the Methodists, my money's on the Amish connection. Are they not good people, devout, assylum seekers of a sort, fundamentalist, insular, unintegrated, often not particularly wealthy, usually not overeducated, nonpolitical, peaceful and tolerant? They can get their seething anger on as well as anybody else. Wonder how they managed the non-electrical detonator technology? |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-07-27 12:34 |
| #4 I keep waiting to here about radical Methodists. My great-great grandfather was a deacon in the Claysburg, Pa., Methodist Church in the 19th century... He was also a blacksmith... You'll be amazed at the amount of attention you get when you work around fire and horses... Radical Methodist... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-07-27 10:49 |
| #3 There's a mole at the Times? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-27 08:45 |
| #2 Hmm, I posted this last night. Looks like the cookie monster got me. Kalle - I didn't even notice that. You are right, it's a big warning sign for them to stay away from medical attention. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-07-27 08:40 |
| #1 Why is that last sentence included in the article? it's only function is to let the failed bombers know that doctors would turn them in. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-27 02:26 |