Posted on 07/12/2005 7:16:31 PM PDT by Crackingham
The critical breakthrough in the hunt for the London bombers came on Monday night in a police video viewing suite. Detectives involved in watching thousands of hours of film for glimpses of the terrorists had been given a "profile" based on a simple question posed for their guidance by senior officers.
The question was: what would the terrorists look like? The answer was that they would be young men, probably in their 20s and 30s, and they would be carrying rucksacks. At 8pm on Monday, on footage from a camera at King's Cross station in central London, officers found images of four young men carrying bulky rucksacks, similar to those in which soldiers carry radios.
One source observed: "It was like the infantry going to war, or like they were going on a hiking holiday."
One of the faces was known. It belonged to Hasib Hussain, a 18-year-old man from Leeds whose family had called the police casualty bureau at around 10pm last Thursday to say he had gone to London with friends and was missing and was a potential victim.
A West Yorkshire police "family liaison officer" was appointed to the family. Subsequently, documents, including a driving licence and cash cards which were linked to him were found in the debris around the No 30 bus in Tavistock Square. He remained a potential victim but, after his face was seen with the others at King's Cross, in footage timed at around 8.30am on July 7, he is now suspected of being one of the first four suicide bombers in Britain.
It is now believed that two other men, aged 30 and 22, also died. It is thought they have been identified as suspected suicide bombers by comparing images from the CCTV and from personal property found at three of the bomb scenes - Tavistock Square, Liverpool Street and Edgware Road. None of the men are related. Documents belonging to the older man, who lived with a partner, were found at Edgware Road. Documents linked to the 22-year-old, Shehzad Tanweer, who lived with a brother and father, were found at Liverpool Street, where he is thought to have died. All four bombs had up to 10lbs of high explosives.
All three identified men were British, of Pakistani background, from West Yorkshire. So far, the wreckage in the Piccadilly Line tunnel outside King's Cross is so appalling, with more than 1,000 body parts, that no identification of a fourth bomber, who is believed to have died in the blast, can be made.
There is no explanation as to why a bus was blown up. One theory is that the bus bomber was unable to get on the Northern Line, the intended target as the four fanned out in the four compass directions from King's Cross. How the bombs were detonated is so far unknown.
They are worm food now.
Profiling saves lives.
Ok - that's bothersome.
What? ...Did something happen in London? All I see is Aruba.
(Toweling off...wet from dripping sarcasm)
Internment camps. Now.
it would, if they did it.
but if tommorrow, some dude with an OBL shirt and a backpack walked into the subway in NYC - I doubt that person would be stopped before boarding the train.
What a sick 'faith' that says your god would rejoice in you killing anyone who doesn't agree with you...sick, sick, sick!!!! then to think you get to go to a heaven to boot! This 'faith' should be outlawed.
On the bright side, there are at least eight less sub-humanoid knuckles dragging across the face of mother earth.
I'll say it. Angry young men...likely of Middle Eastern origin.
and Rove, don't forget Rove.
the US media has pushed these London terror attacks off of the airwaves so fast - its just unreal.
The question was: what would the terrorists look like? The answer was that they would be young men, probably in their 20s and 30s....
THAT WOULD BE YOUNG MOOSLIME MEN.
I am glad they are dead and I hope that their families are suffering. My son should have been on that King's Crossing train, but he and his friends all overslept. It was their last day of an internship.
Especially if he looked Middle Eastern. Must not profile.
I guess someone should tell that sheik who was belly-aching that everyone was jumping to the conclusion that the terrorists were Muslims. Duh!
A West Yorkshire police "family liaison officer" was appointed to the family. Subsequently, documents, including a driving licence and cash cards which were linked to him were found in the debris around the No 30 bus in Tavistock Square. He remained a potential victim but, after his face was seen with the others at King's Cross, in footage timed at around 8.30am on July 7, he is now suspected of being one of the first four suicide bombers in Britain.
The Brits were trying to spin it as outsiders. How inconvenient this situation is now. - tom
It has been known for some time that the children of Muslim immigrants in Britain and Europe are more likely than their parents to become radicalized, join gangs, or become troublemakers and terrorists. These people do not assimilate.
If British citizenship is synonymous with being British, that explains why Israeli citizenship equals Israeli, when muslim Israelis do their thing.
Amazing how the word "terrorist" has such a negative (yet accurate) connotation that the media avoids the term, yet when certain connotations are purposely deceptive, the more the merrier.
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