Posted on 07/27/2005 12:36:55 PM PDT by areafiftyone
LONDON — British police Wednesday said they arrested one of the four alleged terrorists who botched an attack on London's transit system on July 21.
Officers with Scotland Yard (search) staged an early morning raid in Birmingham, arresting Yasin Hassan Omar (search) and three other men.
Officers zapped Omar with a taser gun to subdue him, Sky News reported. He was taken to the high-security facility at London's Paddington Green police station (search) for questioning.
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Now we suffer the victim claims.
Could I have ten minutes alone with this jihadist super-hero? Pretty please?
Is this the guy who was wearing a rucksack when they tasered him?
Do what ever is necessary, anything, to extract information from him.
Yes, start heating up 'the tongs of truth'.
Tube Bomb Suspect Held By Police
B>Suspected bomber Yasin Hassan Omar has been arrested by police in Birmingham investigating the failed 21 July attacks in London.
Omar, 24, suspected of the attack near Warren Street Tube station, was taken to London's high security Paddington Green police station for questioning.
Police also released a second picture of a man they suspect attempted to bomb a Tube at Shepherd's Bush on 21 July.
The unidentified man was pictured on a bus after the attempt.
In a dawn raid in Birmingham, Omar was held after being stunned with a Taser gun, police confirmed.
It is believed a rucksack he was carrying at the time was thrown out of a window by officers.
After a day of other arrests and searches in London and Birmingham, armed police raided an address in Stockwell, south London, on Wednesday evening.
Scotland Yard has confirmed the raid was in connection with the attempted bombings of 21 July and said the residential property was being searched.
Previous developments included:
In Birmingham, shortly after the man believed to be Omar was arrested early on Wednesday, a further three men were detained at a separate address and were being held in the city.
The first man was arrested in Heybarnes Road, in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, at 0430 BST on Wednesday, and later taken to London.
A suspect device found with him is being examined and a controlled explosion is planned.
His detention followed a joint operation between West Midlands Police and officers from the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch.
The BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said a key question is whether the suspect will co-operate with police.
Police will want to know where the other three men are, who was the mastermind behind the 21 July bombings, and - if they are linked to the 7 July bombings - who the mastermind was behind the first attack, our correspondent said.
In exchange for such information, a suspect could expect a "discount" on any possible sentence, he said.
Railway station
Although the suspect was shot with a stun gun, police say no firearms were used.
Following Army advice on the suspect package, residents of about 100 neighbouring homes were evacuated.
A second address in Bankdale Road, in Ward End, Birmingham, was raided a little later, and three men were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Forensic tests are taking place at both addresses in Birmingham.
Mr Blair praised the police for their efforts, saying they have "been working extraordinarily hard on this and have shown a tremendous amount of commitment and dedication to the task in hand".
"I think it is an important development," he added.
Train images
US broadcaster ABC News showed exclusive photographs of bombs found at Luton railway station, including an X-ray of one with nails sticking out of a bottle-shaped object.
It also had images of the inside of the trains damaged by bombs at Edgware Road and King's Cross on 7 July.
Meanwhile, a flat in north London linked to two of the 21 July suspects is being searched, and police say chemicals found there and in a garage may have been intended for use in explosives.
A resident living near the flat said she had seen one of the suspects outside her home on the day after the failed bombings.
Police have linked Omar and Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27 - also known as Muktar Mohammed Said - to the flat in the 12-storey Curtis House, in Ladderswood Way, New Southgate.
A white VW Golf, seized in nearby East Finchley on Tuesday, may have been used by one of the suspects, security sources said.
Before Wednesday morning's arrests, five people had been held under anti-terror laws in connection with the inquiry.
None of them is thought to have been among the failed bombers and one was released on Wednesday.
"Would-be"?
I suppose it'd be wrong just to take him to a dserted place, and LET him be a bomber?
Dan
Set to ZOT...lol
LOL Now boys, is that the way to get rid of a rucksack? ;-)
Here's a better picture.
You now owe me a new keyboard!
Shades of Madrid. I hope the people of Britain values their LEOs.
IMHO, yes, blowing him up would be wrong, before he has the chance to sing his little canary heart out, anyway.
My only reservation. Which probably says bad things about me.
Dan
Yeesh, really seems like London is crawling with these slime...makes one wonder if your average Londoner had 2nd amendment protections, would they have this problem?
Could you imagine some terrorist with a backpack trying to attack Atlanta or Dallas? I'm not sure if he'd get very far.
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