Lando 
Posted on 07/13/2005 10:29:48 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Here are the profiles of the four who are suspected of carrying out the first suicide bombings in Britain, in which at least 52 people have died.
At least three were young British-born men with Pakistan backgrounds who lived near Leeds. The fourth is believed to have come from Luton.
The youngest was 18, and the oldest 30.
Documents belonging to the four were recovered at the scene of the four blasts.
Shehzad Tanweer, 22, of Beeston, Leeds, is believed to have been the Liverpool Street bomber, killing six other people.
A cricket-loving sports science graduate who was described as a "good Muslim". Born in Bradford and is believed to have attended a comprehensive school in Leeds. His father owns a fish and chip shop.
Described by a friend as a "very kind person who would get along with anyone and anybody. He's the kind of guy who would condemn extremism."
Lived in the same semi-detached house all his life.
He had travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan within the last six months.
Hasib Mir Hussain, 18, from Holbeck, Leeds, is believed to been the Number 30 bus bomber in Tavistock Square, killing 12 other people.
It is known that his driving licence and cash cards were found in the mangled wreckage of the number 30 bus, in which 13 people died.
He had told his parents, who he lived with in a red-brick terraced house, that he was going to London with friends on the day of the attacks and at 10.20pm last Thursday his mother reported him missing to the police - apparently fearing he may have been caught in the tragedy.
Detectives are examining the possibility that he either panicked or changed his mind over the suicide mission and carried his bomb on to the bus. It might have gone off accidentally or he could have set it off, perhaps after being challenged by passengers.
Another theory is that three bombers travelled west, east and south on the London Underground from King's Cross and the fourth was supposed to go north but the Northern Line was closed that day.
Hussain left Matthew Murray High School in Leeds less than two years ago, education officials in the city confirmed. Despite a good attendance record he was withdrawn by teachers from all his GCSE exams and took only a GNVQ in Business Studies.
Neighbours said he had become "very religious" two years ago.
Mohammed Sadique Khan, a 30-year-old from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, blew himself up on the Edgware Road train, killing six other people, police believe.
Like Tanweer he seemed an unlikely suicide bomber. Friends said he was married with an eight-month-old baby girl and that he worked with disabled children in a primary school.
All three men were believed to have been friends but not related.
A fourth bomber, 22, is thought to have lived in the Luton area and the West Yorkshire men are understood to have used hire cars to travel to Luton last Thursday morning.
He is believed to have set off the explosives between King's Cross and Russell Square.
All four bombers boarded a Thameslink rail service to King's Cross last Thursday, where they were captured on CCTV just before 8.30am.
They then split up, three of them detonating their bombs on separate trains simultaneously at 8.50am.
The bus bomb detonated 57 minutes later.
Detectives and the security services fear there could still be a second suicide bomb team waiting to strike and that an al-Qa'eda mastermind could have orchestrated the attacks before fleeing the UK.
The bombers appear to be the security services' worst nightmare, so-called "clean skins", apparently ordinary young men who had not previously come to the attention of the authorities.
"How many clean skins have we got waiting in the wings?" a senior security source said.
Lando
"He had travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan within the last six months."
No doubt for "religious training" which in the Deoband/Wahhabi interpretation is not at all at odds with terrorist training.
Islamics are possessed with demons, and there is no other explanation for this. We are seeing this force at work all over the world, and it is NOT news.
religious training is terrorist training.
So, only one was described..... (by whom, BTW?) as a "good Muslim?"
I doubt that they knew they were going to get blown up. Why would they have used timers? They could have just detonated them by hand if they'd been committing suicide.
Of course, they obviously knew they were carrying bombs, so they got what they deserved.
No, no, no, you need to profile them before they blow things up, not after.
How hard is this to figure out?
Of course he was a good muslim. Good muslims do detonate suicide bombs.
"religious training is terrorist training."
Certainly for some. Seems the AQ decive-the-westerner playbook knows that the average Westerner when he hears "religious training" thinks of something like bible school or clerical training, so that is the preferred excuse for going to Pakistan. Even his parents might have been confused, thought maybe he was going to be "straightened out."
For some Islamic sects "religious training" is military training, concepts westerners would never conflate.
I wonder what tipped them off, perhaps his new found love of sewing interesting looking "vests" with lots of tie downs for explosives.
"Detectives and the security services fear there could still be a second suicide bomb team waiting to strike and that an al-Qa'eda mastermind could have orchestrated the attacks before fleeing the UK"
I suppose this information is deductive, ie there was a second team set up for Madrid, or even a third, the ones that blew up the rail line.
I would say a good place to start would be rounding up for questioning all the "clean skins" who have "travelled to Afghanistan and/or Pakistan within the last six months."
Well, he is one now.
No way could it be claimed that the war in Iraq caused this psychopathic act.
LOL- I get it
Well, he died a martyr and took out a number of Kafir when he did.
I guess that would qualify him as a "good muslim".
I agree wholeheartedly with you.
Nevertheless, a stroll over at DU reveals the ways in which some twisted minds link this psychopathic act to the war in Iraq, George Bush, and Tony Blair.
Yeah, he got along with anyone and anybody.. his last moments of life were spent spread out among everyone and everybody.
This hopefully will be an eye-opener for the "Islam isn't a risk because 'Good Muslims' are peaceful" crowd.
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