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.
Yes! And for the profile to be complete the suspects should be considered as white and with blond hair! Blue haired old ladies and women resembling Laura Bush should also be targeted!
"We took on the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, the French, William Wallace, the Black Plague, the Roundheads, the Great Fire, Napoleon, the Nazis, and the Blitz, and we're still here. You terrorists are bloody amateurs." - [unknown at the moment] -- some unknown Londoner
"We took on the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, the French, William Wallace, the Black Plague, the Roundheads, the Great Fire, Napoleon, the Nazis, and the Blitz, and we're still here. You terrorists are bloody amateurs." - [unknown at the moment] -- some unknown Londoner
Dear Sir and Madam, you're son is a homicidal mainiac and a murderer. Any questions?
to be honest, if this were really a war - his family members would have been taken away for questioning. intense questioning.
Wow, look at all the good done by the millions of quid spent on Britain's Total Surveillance State! They have pictures of the bombers nearly five days after the incidents amid hour after hour of worthless footage.
The possibly fatal problem for our side is that our leaders continuously refer to the enemy in laudably terms such as "Religion of Peace" even as the enemy plots to kill us. That's even when we aren't giving them $3+ billion.
That's it, forget ever working for the BBC.
Thank God.
Don't forget the hurricane.
Yes. They now know who did it. Big waste of money(?)
What a dreadful close call your son and his friends had! Glad to hear they're okay.
Do you think the families of the victims will want their lottery dough from the country now? The greedy survivors in this country made me sick. They acted as if they were entitled to the taxpayers millions for something 19 Arabs did. I haven't seen all the Hollywood types doing telethons yet.
ah back when the British actually had balls. Now they're scared to say the word "terrorist."
For all the fuss we make about our borders (and rightfully so) the biggest threat to our security is 2nd generation European muslims who have European passports and can fly into our country at will. Why would they cross in the middle of the night over the desert when they can fly first class from London, Paris, Brussels, etc...into Kennedy or Reagan airorts? There was a chilling article on this a few days ago in Realclearpolitics.com.
Not to sound like a whackjob, but the only solution is ful deportation and containment on the Arabian Peninsula. Either that, or just keep taking it.
For all the fuss we make about our borders (and rightfully so) the biggest threat to our security is 2nd generation European muslims who have European passports and can fly into our country at will. Why would they cross in the middle of the night over the desert when they can fly first class from London, Paris, Brussels, etc...into Kennedy or Reagan airorts? There was a chilling article on this a few days ago in Realclearpolitics.com.
Not to sound like a whackjob, but the only solution is ful deportation and containment on the Arabian Peninsula. Either that, or just keep taking it.
Don't you dare to say the T-word!
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