Posted on 07/09/2005 1:05:32 PM PDT by Crackingham
Frantic relatives and friends of people missing after the London bomb attacks were yesterday scouring the city in the hope that they might yet be found alive. As the confirmed death toll rose towards 50 and continued to climb, they handed out photographs, put up posters and rang around hospitals in scenes reminiscent of those witnessed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the US. By yesterday evening, an emergency phone number set up by police had received 104,000 calls from people worried about their relatives and friends.
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, and Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, both said that the bombings had all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda and warned that the terrorist cell responsible may still be in the country and planning further attacks. Sir Ian said Thursday's bombings were "not only on London but on human beings from all over the world" and he pledged to do everything possible to catch the killers.
"The implacable resolve of the Metropolitan Police is to track down those responsible for these terrible events. We will bend every sinew of the Metropolitan Police and all our associated agencies and comrades to do that," he said.
Police urged members of the public to act as their eyes and ears, to build up the intelligence picture by reporting anything out of the ordinary.
"There's likely to still be a cell," said Sir Ian. "We must remain vigilant."
Last night, a Morocco-born man was emerging as a possible suspect. Reports in Brussels suggest that British security officials have been seeking information from European counterparts about Mohamed Garbuzi. An associate of the London-based radical cleric Abu Qatada, Garbuzi has been described by a Spanish judge as "Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe".
Garbuzi was last year convicted in his absence by a Moroccan court and sentenced to 20 years for involvement in bomb attacks in Casablanca in 2003.
Hmmm. So why was this man roaming freely around England?
Galloway's manservant?
They may have tried him in absentia.
A lot of Muslim countries do that.
Was thinking the same thing only in reverse which explains Galloway's litany of spew.
Yes, but if this scumball was tried and sentenced in 2003, why is he walking around in England in 2005?
Will England not send extradite convicted terrorist bombers!
Maybe the report is wrong because this makes no sense to me.
Sorry, should have been: "Will England not extradite convicted terrorist bombers?"
They have no extradition treaty with Morocco and besides, Morocco has the death penalty. I'm willing to bet that soon Britain WILL have a death penalty as well.
You'd think they'd hand him over, now wouldn't you?
I certainly would.
This country AND the Brits do some very odd, self-destructive thing.
I was immediately, thoroughly and rightly chastised here for my remark.
Now ...
I wonder how long sighted Blair really was, as he now needs the support of the world community (sorta').
I have a feeling that GB is going do some muzzie sweeping and will dare the lefties to trouble him about it.
I know that if we in the US are ever attacked on a large scale again, I will be in good and large company re-indoctrinating those those that are not part of the program.
(I think that was a safe and not-so-cryptic way of saying something)
I just hope the suspect they are searching for didn't accidentally blow himself up. We must reach out to his family and offer our condolences.
Again, do hope his blood isn't splattered on the buildings and his entrails are not hanging from the lamp posts, what a tragedy that would be.
I certainly would.
This country AND the Brits do some very odd, self-destructive thing.
Unfortunately, the UK Police can't deport someone to a country where they are facing the death penalty, or where they might be tortured. However, if they knew where he was then they would have detained him in Britain, but he was probably at large. These guys usually use aliases which they establish with foreign passports, that's how most islamist terrorists have come into Britain.
I HAD forgotten the UK's reluctance to hand people over who might get chopped.
I hope the Brits (and eventually the U.S.) handle the relatives of the known terrorists the same way the Israelis do. They should demolish their homes and expel them from the country.
Nah, he had diplomatic immunity ("An associate of the London-based radical cleric Abu Qatada, Garbuzi has been described by a Spanish judge as "Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe")
\sarc
Out of curiosity, any thought & speculations on how the London bombings would have turned out if it wasn't illegal in England to defend yourself?
I don't see how being armed is going to stop some guy from setting his back-pack on the floor of the train, and then "forgetting" to take it with him when he gets off.
I've been on the Underground at rush-hour.
People everywhere, everyone's mind is distracted, and it's just chaotic.
Italy has wasted no time - I would hope we could do the same. . .a 'clean sweep'. . .Islamist illegals of any origin.
But am not holding my breath for a real sanity to rule on this one.
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