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July 17, 2005
Hunt Widens for Evidence in London Blasts
Topics: TerrorismAP via Yahoo News: Reports that Tony Blair warned on Saturday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, and authorities on three continents widened investigations into the London terrorist bombings. The number of people confirmed dead rose to 55.
(...) Police in the northern city of Leeds searched an Islamic shop, the home of an Egyptian biochemist and a third address for more evidence after investigators reportedly found traces of explosives in the Egyptian's bathtub.
(...) ABC television reported Saturday that the FBI was looking into possible ties between unidentified people in New Jersey and a Jamaican-born Briton, whom British authorities formally identified for the first time Saturday as Germaine Lindsay, 19.
(...) In Kingston, Jamaica, a man who said he was Lindsay's father told radio station RJR he had not seen his son since the boy visited Jamaica when he was 11-years-old.
(...) "He was quiet and calm and has his head screwed on," Nigel Lindsay said. "This was quite a surprise to me."
(...) Nigel Lindsay said he lost contact with his son over the years but the two began having weekly phone conversations in 2004. In one conversation, the younger Lindsay confided that he had become a Muslim, the father said. He added that he had lost contact with his son two months ago.
Posted by Hyscience at July 17, 2005 1:04 AM
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