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Terror suspect: MI5 asks for deportation BRIAN BRADY AND EDDIE BARNES THE hunt for the London bombers dramatically switched to France last night after MI5 and Scotland Yard demanded the extradition of a "North African" terrorist suspected of involvement in the murderous attacks. Detectives have made the formal request to French colleagues for the extradition of an Islamic radical who is believed to have fled across the Channel after the bomb attacks. The name of the individual is not yet known, but sources say he is of North African descent, and is high on a list of potential terrorist masterminds...

Frantic relatives and friends of people missing after the London bomb attacks were yesterday scouring the city in the hope that they might yet be found alive. As the confirmed death toll rose towards 50 and continued to climb, they handed out photographs, put up posters and rang around hospitals in scenes reminiscent of those witnessed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the US. By yesterday evening, an emergency phone number set up by police had received 104,000 calls from people worried about their relatives and friends. Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, and Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan...

The investigation into the London bombings which left nearly 50 dead and hundreds injured Thursday appears to be focusing on a Moroccan national who has mysteriously gone missing from the British capital in recent days. Scotland Yard and MI5 have urgently requested help from European agencies in tracking down a Moroccan national who has been living in Britain for 16 years and who is suspected of past terrorist activity in Europe and North Africa, the daily newspaper The Independent reported in Saturday editions. Mohammed al-Gerbouzi, who has also been linked to terrorist attacks in Madrid and Casablanca, disappeared from his...