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First half of the article's covered by the previous post — gives the names: Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 19, Mohammed Sadique Khan, 30, and a fourth, as yet unidentified man...
... Explosives were found in a car parked at Luton station yesterday. The explosives were due to be blown up in the fifth of a series of controlled blasts. A second vehicle found at Luton was taken to police storage in nearby Leighton Buzzard for examination. A bomb factory was found during raids on six addresses in Leeds and Dewsbury, West Yorks. A male relative of one of the bombers was arrested during one of the dawn swoops.

Armed police and bomb disposal experts yesterday gave 500 families just five minutes to collect their belongings and evacuate homes surrounding a house in Alexandra Grove, in the Burley area of Leeds. Police laid on buses to take families away. They were later told to stay away overnight. Army explosives experts were called in to carry out a controlled blast to break open the door — as cops with sniper rifles kept watch for nearly two hours.

West Yorkshire Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn revealed that suspect material had been discovered in the raids. He added: “There is material in those premises that cannot be identified as harmless. Therefore, we are treating it as potentially hazardous until we are satisfied that it is harmless. We intend not to let people back until we are certain it is safe to do so.”

The day of drama began at 6.30am when police swooped on five other homes. They included two semis knocked into one family home where Tanweer lived in Colwyn Road, in Beeston, Leeds. He shared the house with his parents, brother Rezween, 17, and two sisters. Just 400 yards away in Stratford Street cops stormed a house owned by Asian businessman Mohammed Fiaz and wife Hamida Begum. They are not thought to have lived there for several years. But their sons — Nadeem, 26, and “Jacksey”, in his 30s — would drop in for a few days at time, then leave again. A mile away, officers swooped in the Colenso Mount home of Mahmood Hussain, his wife Manizaand and their their sons Shazia and Hasib. They shared the house with three other Asian men — Misbia and Aqsa Imran and Imran Mir.

In Dewsbury cops removed a silver Ford Escort and a silver Honda from outside the bungalow where retired teacher Farida Patel lived with her son Arshad, his wife and their baby in Thornhill Park Avenue. A police source said the owner of the Escort was one of the bombers, and added: “The guy who drove that won’t be using it again. He’s dead.” Officers also stormed the council house in Lees Holm where Arshad’s sister Hassina lived with her husband and young child.
Posted by: Fred 2005-07-13
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