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Suspect 'confesses to London attacks'
From: Agence France-Presse ^ | July 30, 2005 | From: Agence France-Presse

Posted on 07/30/2005 3:20:10 AM PDT by Eurotwit

THE man believed to be the fourth would-be bomber in the failed July 21 attacks said he and his accomplices wanted their attack to spread fear in London, in an apparent confession reported by Italian newspapers today.

"We wanted to make an attack, but only as a demonstration," several newspapers quoted 27-year-old Osman Hussain as saying, without citing a source. Italy's best-selling newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, expressed fears that the presence of one of the presumed London bombers could be linked to an planned attack here. "Was he here just as part of his escape or to prepare a new attack?" it asked.

Rome daily Il Messaggero headlined: "The suicide bomber was among us," and reported that police believe Hussain could have been in Rome to prepare a terrorist attack."

Italian police moved in to arrest Hussain yesterday after tracking his mobile phone through France and Italy before his arrival in Rome by train on Thursday.

British police had provided their Italian counterparts with the phone number, which was initially tracked to the Waterloo Station area of London on Monday but then went silent. The signal was picked up again in Paris on Wednesday, and then again in Milan and Bologna on Thursday.

Advertisement: Police in Rome meanwhile mounted round-the-clock surveillance on Hussain's brother, a Somali national who owns a phone and internet centre near Rome's Termini Station. He eventually led them to the flat in the eastern Rome suburb where Hussain was arrested yesterday after paying a visit to a small mosque. Among a number of people detained for questioning late yesterday was a Tunisian official at the mosque, Mohamed ben Mohamed.

"I came to Rome because I didn't know where else to go and because I had friends here and could find a place to stay. I would have stayed here for a while and then gone elsewhere. I don't know of any plan to attack Italy," La Repubblica quoted the suspect as telling police.

Citing a police source, Turin newspaper La Stampa said Hussain protested he knew little of the organisational background to the July 21 attacks on the London transport system and that he had been handed a rucksack to take on the Underground.

Several newspapers reported that Hussain's fluent Italian surprised interrogators. They said he had previously spent five years in Rome, having fled to Italy on a false passport, either from Somalia or a neighbouring country, as a teenager. In the meantime, he has become a British citizen.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: italy; londonattacked; mosquewatch; osmanhussain
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1 posted on 07/30/2005 3:20:10 AM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Brit_Guy; Dog

fyi


2 posted on 07/30/2005 3:20:27 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: Eurotwit

The plot thickens...


3 posted on 07/30/2005 3:27:41 AM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops and their Family's)
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To: Deetes
The BS thickens.

Find'm... surround'm... kill'm. Repeat as often as possible.

4 posted on 07/30/2005 4:39:18 AM PDT by johnny7 (Racially-profiling since 1963)
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To: johnny7

His story is pretty close to what I told Mom when she caught me smoking. The guys lying through his teeth.


5 posted on 07/30/2005 5:01:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Eurotwit

Hopefully the Italians have proper Koran handling procedures in place....


6 posted on 07/30/2005 5:03:21 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God)
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To: Eurotwit; Southack; Miss Marple
Southack this tracks with your theory they weren't suicide bombers....but were dupes.

Citing a police source, Turin newspaper La Stampa said Hussain protested he knew little of the organisational background to the July 21 attacks on the London transport system and that he had been handed a rucksack to take on the Underground.

There is still a hidden controller/handler in England.

7 posted on 07/30/2005 5:04:15 AM PDT by Dog (Every-time a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: johnny7
"Find'm... surround'm... kill'm. Repeat as often as possible"

PROFILE EM, Find'm... surround'm... kill'm. Repeat as often as possible. No need for political correctness when radical Muslim hunting, now is there?

8 posted on 07/30/2005 5:05:23 AM PDT by dokmad
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To: Dog

If they were dupes and it comes out their handlers tried to kill them along with the other intended victims, hopefully the terrorists will have a harder time finding people dumb enough to go off with a rucksack.


9 posted on 07/30/2005 5:09:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Watch the next 48 hours....these boys were dupes and will sing.


10 posted on 07/30/2005 5:11:39 AM PDT by Dog (Every-time a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: Sacajaweau
“ ... and I will strike with EXTREME VENGEANCE upon those who... ”

Pop! Pop! Pop!

11 posted on 07/30/2005 5:13:01 AM PDT by johnny7 (Racially-profiling since 1963)
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To: Dog
Among a number of people detained for questioning late yesterday was a Tunisian official at the mosque, Mohamed ben Mohamed.

That's really interesting, too.

12 posted on 07/30/2005 5:14:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

I noticed that also..


13 posted on 07/30/2005 5:16:41 AM PDT by Dog (Every-time a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: Eurotwit

Europe has to get the turds out of its punchbowl.


14 posted on 07/30/2005 5:22:51 AM PDT by tkathy (Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
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To: Dog

The guy goes right by the terrorist/Muslim handbook. You can lie when it is necessary!!


15 posted on 07/30/2005 5:23:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yep...just like the CAIR radio ads are doing now. They know they have a tiger by the tail and they need to lay low for awhile till the West goes to sleep again.


16 posted on 07/30/2005 5:28:09 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Sacajaweau
Ya know these git are pretty stupid, kind of reminds me of Johnny the Shoe Bomber.

It will be interesting to see if they find any evidence that the other flight that went down over the suburbs of NYC was somehow linked to these cells.

17 posted on 07/30/2005 5:30:01 AM PDT by mware
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To: johnny7; Eurotwit
"Find'm... surround'm... kill'm. Repeat as often as possible."

If our guys don't kill them. Make them strip naked and take pictures of them as naked as their pet goat lovers.

The picture below is an incredible warning to every would be Jihadist in London, Rome and anywhere. Try something, and we will photograph you in your birthday suit. Or we will throw you on the ground and shoot you in the head several times.

JIHAD MOHAMMED'S GETTING FLUFFED OUT BY THE BOBBY'S!

"ATTENTION JIHAD MOHAMMEDS! STRIP AND COME OUT NAKED!



18 posted on 07/30/2005 5:36:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The civilized world must win WW IV/the Final Crusade and destroy Jihadism!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Italian police moved in to arrest Hussain yesterday after tracking his mobile phone

I know the bad boys are aware of this technology, but it still bothers me that the press is given the method of how he was tracked down.

19 posted on 07/30/2005 5:40:32 AM PDT by ErnBatavia
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To: johnny7
“ ... and I will strike with EXTREME VENGEANCE upon those who...


20 posted on 07/30/2005 5:46:32 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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