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.
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The plot thickens...
Find'm... surround'm... kill'm. Repeat as often as possible.
His story is pretty close to what I told Mom when she caught me smoking. The guys lying through his teeth.
Hopefully the Italians have proper Koran handling procedures in place....
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.
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?
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.
Watch the next 48 hours....these boys were dupes and will sing.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
That's really interesting, too.
I noticed that also..
Europe has to get the turds out of its punchbowl.
The guy goes right by the terrorist/Muslim handbook. You can lie when it is necessary!!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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