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  • Report into London bombings cites Al-Qaeda link

    05/11/2006 11:35:15 AM PDT · by Enchante · 11 replies · 357+ views
    Yahoo News (from AFP) ^ | 5/11/06 | Deborah Haynes
    LONDON (AFP) - Two of the suicide bombers behind last year's deadly London transport attacks likely had contacts with Al-Qaeda, but British security lacked resources to stop the atrocity, an official report has concluded. The report, by an influential parliamentary committee, cleared intelligence services of any culpable failings in preventing the four bombers carrying out Britain's worst terror attack, which killed them and 52 other people. In the first full account of the events before and after the July 7 blasts, the document said Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22 -- two of the bombers -- had appeared...
  • Gang filmed at King's Cross 'looked like the infantry going to war' (bombers caught on tape)

    07/12/2005 7:16:31 PM PDT · by Crackingham · 109 replies · 3,715+ views
    Telegraph ^ | 7/13/05 | John Steele
    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...