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July 13, 2005
Police searching masterminds of London blasts seek 5th person
Topics: TerrorismIan at The Political Teen has coverage on a fourth terrorist(and points to a fifth) being identified today, and quotes a report that the police did indeed refer to him as a suicide bomber. But as to how many bombers, planners, and facilitators were actually involved in the London bombings, no one really knows at this point, and surely, we can count on more....
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Police investigating last week's bombings here today searched for the masterminds of the attacks after identifying the four suspected suicide bombers as Britons of Pakistani descent and were believed to be seeking a fifth person.The suspects, who carried out the explosions on three subway trains and a double-decker bus on Thursday morning killing at least 52 people, were named by police as Hasib Hussain, 19, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Mohammed Saddique Khan, 30 -- all from West Yorkshire in northern England.
A fourth man was also identified but not named and it is belived that he was also from West Yorkshire, where a man was arrested yesterday following raids by police on some houses.
The fifth person was not one of the bombers, it said, adding an appeal for help in tracking him down is expected.
Police also discovered a bomb factory in Leeds, indicating that there were plans for future terrorists attacks like the London bomb blasts.
The breakthrough came on Monday night when the CCTV at King's Cross showed the four young men setting off in different directions. They were captured in the footage wearing rucksacks on the morning of the attacks.
Terrorism experts say the men might have been guided by a "controlling hand".
Police believe two of the suspects died in the blasts at Aldgate/Liverpool Street and Edgware Road tube stations, while a third died on the Number 30 bus at Tavistock Square. The fate of the fourth bomber was yet to be confirmed.
Affirming Britain's determination to crack down on extremists, Blair said anti-terror laws would be tightened and steps taken to fast-track deportation of radical Imams to prevent them from spreading the "evil and extreme ideology" based on a "perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of Islam."
Reacting to the identification of the suspects by police, Sir Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain said the organisation had received the news with "anguish, shock and horror."
We're talking anguish, shock, and horror, says Sacranie, but we might ask where is all the anguish, shock, and horror at all those Muslim clerics teaching hate and violence and calling for jihad!
"It appears our youth have been involved in last week's horrific bombings against innocent people," he said. "Nothing in Islam can ever justify the evil actions of the bombers."Home Secretary Charles Clarke, said the police were now hinting for the accomplices of the bombers. "We have to attack the people who are driving, organising and manipulating those people" who carried out the bombings, he told BBC radio.
Now, that's more like it - they should have gone after the militant clerics a long time ago.
He also said that British authorities had to address "international links" to the bombings and to "organise ourselves on the basis there are other people prepared to act in this way."Police yesterday raided three houses in the Beeston and Holbeck areas of Leeds and two in nearby Dewsbury in a coordinated operation involving scores of officers from West Yorkshire and the anti-terrorist branch.
Family and friends of two young British-born Muslims of Pakistani origin - whose homes were among the six raided yesterday - said they had been missing for several days.
That's because they blew themselves to hell, while murdering innocent men, women, and children of all faiths, including their own.
Hasib Hussain's parents reported him missing on July 7; his documents were found on the No 30 bus which exploded at 9.47 am on Thursday. Shehzad Tanweer, 22, of Colwyn Road, has also been missing since last week. His documents were found in the wreckage of the Aldgate train.Mohammed Siddique Khan was named as the man who planted the bomb at Edgware Road. Khan, the married father of an eight-month-old baby, was believed to have come from the Leeds area.
One can't help but feel compassion for the suffering of the parents of the terrorists, and that of the terrorist's wife and child. Double tragedies, like I've spoken of before - the loss of a loved one and the realization that the loved one is a murderer. Loss and shame, loneliness and disgust, what an emotional rollercoaster they all must be on.
While there was satisfaction within police and intelligence services that they appeared to have identified a bombing team so swiftly, there were also fears on two fronts: that the finding of more explosives in Leeds indicates that this was not a one-off; and that there could be attacks by far-right groups against ethnic minority communities as it became clear that home-grown bombers carried out the blasts.
Now that's a liberal talking. If any person, persons, or group commits violence against 'innocent' Muslims, the should be, will be, and deserve to be, condememed and prosecuted. But I believe that even the most far left moonbat couldn't imagine, nor will it ever happen, that some "right-wing nut" straps explosives on and blows himself or herself all to hell in order to kill Muslims. Only radical Muslims do that.
Now the search will concentrate on the "plotters and planners" who would normally brief and equip a team of suicide volunteers.The normal procedure for such operations, if they involved al-Qaeda or one of its related groups, would be for the chief planner to have left the country before the operations took place. There is a possibility that those who planned it are still in Britain.
Police are now checking flight records for suspicious passengers.
Let's hope that the Brits take Clarke's comment, "We have to attack the people who are driving, organising and manipulating those people" to heart, or else they're going to have to hire a lot more Bobbies to investigate the number of attacks that they'll have if they don't stop appeasing terrorists and militant Muslims.
Hat tip on both the fourth and fifth suspects - The Political Teen
Posted by Hyscience at July 13, 2005 6:10 PM
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