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.
San Jose Mercury was about how they don't have enough terror money. I guess they feel the need to mimic Hillary and New York City. I guess they forgot about all the gang activity in San Jose.
The San Francisco Cronicle had a huge picture of Karl Rove above the fold. They are too busy manufacturing a story that isn't even there.
Not one story about the London homicide bombings. Its like it never happened. I would have loved to see a screen shot of the four terrorists above the fold. The communist media wants to bury this like nobody's business. It doesn't bode well for the Socialists in 2006 or the SCOTUS battle.
The Brits should seize the assets of ALL known relatives of the identified terrorists and expel them from their country in the middle of the night.
and in addition, life is cheap to them - it means nothing to them.
"what's 52 dead in the big picture? "
Well if you put it that way, some stats have it that one hundred plus or minus, again, I repeat, 100 + or - americans die each day in automobile related accidents.
Can't help but wonder what the British stats are?
my comment about the 52 dead was sarcastic - that's the way the left, who wants to bury this story, sees it.
"These people do not assimilate."
If you think you are going to be an ultimate power you don't worry about assimilating. That is how they see this.
We have to worry about assimilation, the are concerned with ultimate domination.
If every Muslim on planet earth were willing to be a suicide bomber, you'd have a pretty good point. The problem for them is that this isn't so.
Look, I think Britain, France and the U.S. are stupid as hell to allow people from terrorist states to enter their/our nation. I think that should definately stop.
You would be right if you asserted that letting in only one suicide bomber would be a lousy idea. We have ten million Muslims in the U.S. If each of them were diehard radicals, there'd be literally thousands of bombs going off each month.
IMO, the jihadists are small in numbers. I don't like it when things like this happen, and I think we should morph our policies with reagard to who we let in, in time of war.
I'm not impressed by these numbers. Here are four men with the IQ of a ping pong ball that won't be on the playing field any longer. Yes, they took out too many. We could stop that IMO.
We don't get tough enough. Jihadist activists should be shipped out on the next rowboat. Radical followers should be tied to the row boat in a dingie.
Only as a prelude to deportation.
All Muslims out of the US, UK and Europe. Now
SO TRUE! Telling isn't it. The propaganda machine is working overtime.
"Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" and "infidels" come from the same anti-life, anti-freedom sociopathic demented mind.
That kind of "coincidence" gives me pause. God has blessed your son.
A friend of mine left a bar while on vacation to avoid a fight because a business acquaintance discovered he was Jewish. My friend wears his Star of David proudly and has never concealed his faith. Anyway, he left the night club
and went a block down the street to his hotel. When he reached the door he was knocked to floor by the blast of the Bali bombing that killed 200. His erstwhile friend's antisemitism cost him his life.
Experts, schmexperts.
I agree wholeheartedly...Any religion/cult that advocates in it's teachings the murder of any and all that do not agree with it's teaching (and are carried out on a regular basis) should be banned from the free world...
So what's the definition of a terrorist??? Are you a terrorist if you haven't murdered your first victim yet??? Are you a terrorist if you attend meetings at a mosque week after week listening to your religious leader encouraging you to murder non believers??? Are you a terrorist if you donate money to these murder extolling teachers and preachers??? I'd say definately yes...Ban Islam in the United States...
Sadly, Suicide is supposed to be a mortal sin under Islam, but the bastardized? version of Islam that these Killers have reinvented for themselves obviously allowsand endorses it.
Even sadder, we never here the rest of the Muslim world denounce these activities. they are too busy funding the next act.
nuke the Hijaz now! melt Medina and Mecca into GLASS.
I'm guessing these guys were not suicide bombers. I feel that they were given the bombs and told to plant them as they exited the trains. But the timers were set for when the control knew they would still be in transit. No witnesses to have second thoughts and the spectre of home grown suicide bombers to haunt the UK.
"We don't want to fight/ But by Jingo if we do/ We've got the men, we've got the ships, we've got the money too!
A different England, a different time.
"All Muslims out of the US, UK and Europe. Now"
You do realize that by law in Britain and coming soon to Amerika, your comment above could be contrived as "hate speech" which is punishable up to 20 years in prison?
wonder what would happen if we said to the brainless nitwits, one more terrorist attack...anywhere in the world, and we'll blow mecca up to your heaven, what would they do???
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