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'Justice is about him being branded as a rapist who robbed me of my childhood' By Nicole Martin (Filed: 26/11/2005) As soon as Sophie walked past the huddle of youths loitering on the pavement, she sensed that getting off a night bus at Brixton, south London, had been a desperately bad move. She and her friend, on their way home from an evening out with school mates, could have left the bus earlier, but Sophie felt they would be safer in Brixton where the streets were busier and the roads better lit. As pretty, confident 16-year-olds, the girls were used...

ALL four July 7 suicide bombers were tracked by security services a year before they attacked London. But the surveillance operation was ditched after intelligence officers decided there was nothing suspicious about their behaviour, sources said last night. The revelation comes as Tony Blair's plans to create a law against glorifying terrorism were torn apart by rebel MPs.

SUICIDE bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan was trailed by anti-terrorist forces a year before he carried out his murderous mission, it emerged today. The suspected ringleader of the four London suicide bombers, who was living in Thornhill Lees, featured in a surveillance operation carried out by the intelligence services last year. Khan, 30, was secretly filmed and recorded speaking to a UK-based terrorist suspect, who cannot be named for legal reasons, the BBC claimed - attributing the report to a "well placed source". A joint investigation by BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme and BBC2's Newsnight also suggested that Sidique...

An Indian origin doctor in Britain was pelted with stones and verbally abused by a gang of youths in a racially motivated attack following the London bombings. Yashen Maharaj, 28, who was attacked on July 23, had worked as part of Medway National Health Service Trust's standby team to treat victims of the July 7 London bombings. "The doctor was verbally abused and more disturbingly had missiles, including large stones and rocks thrown at him, one of which hit the doctor on the back," a hospital spokeswoman said. Maharaj continued to attend his duties but declined to talks to newsmen....

Part I: Welcome to LondonistanSpeaking of the ISI's ability to calibrate terrorism, consider the events of 7/7 and 7/21.Immediately after 7/7, it became obvious that there were plenty of Pakistani links, and this put General Musharraf in the hot seat. He responded with bluster that British terrorism was home-grown, and that it had nothing in particular to do with Pakistan.How could Pakistan prove its injured innocence? The ISI came up with a brilliant plan: Pakistanis have clearly learned the art of diplomatic theatre from their friends the Chinese. They would get hold of a couple of naïve 'sleepers' suffused...

The July suicide bombings in London were yet another horrifying reminder of the dreadful tactic perpetrated by Islamic jihadists in their holy war. To be sure, Israeli citizens have long known the nightmare of suicide bombing – and Iraqis, unfortunately, have become acquainted with it daily. What exactly is inside the mind of the Islamic suicide bomber? What impulse motivates a human being, who supposedly believes in God, to blow himself up alongside innocent people? To discuss these and other questions with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests today are: Jessica Stern, an expert on...

Since the London bombings, there has been a palpable feeling in the air here in the U.S. that another terrorist attack is imminent. Maybe not as bad as 9/11, perhaps a train or subway bombing. Or maybe it will be something worse. There were fevered rumors circulating over the last few weeks about massive attacks on New York and Washington scheduled for Aug. 6 and 9, to mark the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But now Aug. 6 and 9 have come and gone. More significantly, 47 months have come and gone since 9/11 without a major terrorist attack on...

With their photographs in the papers and their instructors gone, the suspects did not know whether to stay or flee – or try again with more explosives. THE squabbling began almost immediately after the four would-be suicide bombers bungled their “martyrdom missions” on July 21. They had failed to emulate their “brothers” who had murdered 52 passengers on the London transport network a fortnight before because their rucksack bombs did not explode. A fifth man had simply “bottled out” and dumped his bomb. The idea had been to die and go to paradise. There was no plan B. These men...

London Police Nab 6 More in Blasts Probe By CATHERINE McALOON, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago Police arrested six people Sunday in the failed July 21 London transit bombings and were reportedly investigating the attackers' ties to Saudi Arabia and Italy, hurrying to track down any accomplices to prevent more attacks. Key suspects were being interrogated in London in relation to the partially exploded bombs planted on three subway trains and a double-decker bus, police said, while authorities in Italy were pursuing contacts linked to suspected bomber Osman Hussain, arrested in Rome two days ago. On Sunday, one of...

LONDON (AP) - When the bomb he tried to detonate aboard a London Tube train failed to explode, police say Osman Hussain jumped out a carriage window, ran along the track, then hopped through back yards before melting into the city's bustle. After going underground for five days, Hussain boarded a train at Waterloo station - possibly walking past his picture and those of three other suspected July 21 attackers on posters that blanketed the city. Then he slipped away, traveling from London through France to Rome. His ability to escape a massive British dragnet, coupled with the arrest of...

There’s a big difference between excuses and arguments. For example, “I can’t do it now, I’ve only seen this part of Roadhouse 612 times” is an excuse for not mowing the lawn. “I mowed the lawn yesterday” is an argument. In the wake of the London bombings, it seems we’re hearing a lot of excuses but not a lot of arguments for why we shouldn’t do certain things. “I just don’t want to” appears to be the animating spirit of opponents to increased preparedness. Take closed-circuit security cameras in public areas, like they have in London. I don’t like the...

WILL SUICIDE BOMBERS OBTAIN HEAVEN? Those who seek to terrorize others by killing themselves along with innocent people can never be assured of reaching Heaven. Among those in the Sacred Scriptures who committed suicide is Judas. And through the Word of God we know he lost his soul: “And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve” (Luke 22:3). “And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged (Judas hung himself), burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out....So that the field is called....’The field of blood‘”...

London, July 29: Assaults on Asians in Britain has increased by over 13-fold after the London bomb blasts, with reports of attacks on mosques, firebombing and faith-based insults on streets and homes, police and Muslim groups said today. "Nine mosques have been attacked, a garage firebombed, people assaulted in the street and homes had had their windows broken since July 7 London bombing incidents. It is really very worrying," Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of Islamic Human Rights Commission told BBC. He said three days after the July 7 bombings, Kamal Butt, 48, from Pakistan was murdered outside a corner shop in...

All four of the suspected would-be London suicide bombers have been rounded up by anti-terror police in London and Italy. The fourth man was arrested in Rome, an Italian Government minister confirmed. He was described as a Somali man called Osman Hussain who is a naturalised British citizen. Earlier, two other members of the July 21 gang were arrested in west London. One of them is believed to be Muktar Said-Ibrahim, 27, who allegedly tried to blow himself up on a number 26 bus in Hackney, east London. The other is believed to have been responsible for an attempted bombing...

The fourth and last London bomb suspect has been arrested in Rome, according to reports from Italy. Reports claimed the Italian Interior Ministry said the man has been held in the city. The man was named as Somali national Osman Hussein. "The arrest took place a short while ago in Rome of the Somalian, Osman Hussein, a naturalized British citizen, the fourth attacker in the London on July 21," Italy's interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu said in a statement. "The anti-terrorism operation is still ongoing, and has been conducted in the context of close international collaboration." He gave no details of...

The fourth would-be London bomber has been arrested in Rome, according to reports. It follow the arrests of two other suspects in London today. An Italian minister has said the man in custody there is a British citizen. Sky's Crime Correspondent called it "an astonishing development" and Scotland Yard has not confirmed it but officers are trying to speak to their Italian counterparts. Sky News revealed earlier that two of the suspects in the July 21 attempted bombings have been arrested. A total of three of the suspects are now in custody in the UK. One of them is thought...

Remaining bomb suspects arrested · Oval and bus suspects held · Shepherd's Bush suspect held in Rome · More arrests at Liverpool St James Sturcke, Mark Oliver and agencies Friday July 29, 2005 The three remaining chief suspects wanted by police investigating the failed suicide bombings of July 21 were today arrested in west London and in Rome. The man sought in connection with the attack at Oval tube station, who has not been named, was arrested at Dalgarno Gardens, a block of flats in Ladbroke Grove after a dramatic siege, a security source told Guardian Unlimited. Muktar Said-Ibrahim, who...

Score one for the good guys of the blogosphere! The Guardian, the once-prestigious left wing U.K. newspaper, has been forced to fire an intern, Dilpazier Aslam, who was a member of an extremist Islamist political party and who had not declared this when he wrote a comment after the 7/7 attacks. This is the first time a British "journalist" has been forced to step down after being criticized by bloggers. The group in question, Hizb ut- Tahrir, promotes racism, anti-Semitism, calls suicide bombers "martyrs" and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people. The intern wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian...

LONDON — Anti-terrorist officers investigating the July 21 attempted attacks in the British capital arrested nine men in south London Thursday.

Two recent stories concerning the war on terror demonstrate flip sides of a coin regarding how we can move forward against a savage enemy. In London, there was the swift use of deadly force by British police, eliminating an extremely suspicious and potential threat to the subway system and public at large. In Washington, there is a story circulating that the White House is moving away from describing the war on terror as "The War on Terror," preferring instead a new term: the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism. So, the question is, do we have the "cajones" and war-time mentality...