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| 2005-07-13 | |
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 â 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: âThere 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.â 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 â Nadeem, 26, and âJackseyâ, in his 30s â 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 â 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: âThe guy who drove that wonât be using it again. Heâs dead.â Officers also stormed the council house in Lees Holm where Arshadâs sister Hassina lived with her husband and young child. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 That would be really cool!!! |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2005-07-13 19:02 |
| #13 hey we can have our own Colorado Rantburg gathering :) |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-07-13 18:16 |
| #12 Hey Jan - I live up by Monument - I'm a volunteer firefighter. We've been on standby to go fight the Mason fire since Friday. I'm afraid we wont get to go seeing how late it is. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2005-07-13 17:24 |
| #11 Pine actually. What a small world |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-07-13 16:25 |
| #10 Jan: Close to Bailey? That's where My brother's family lives. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-13 16:12 |
| #9 Sorry to those for getting off track here a bit. OP, I was referring to the fires of a few years ago not this current one. We are SW of Denver approx. 50 miles. (The gas prices for our commute are killing us.) Yes, it would be good to have a nice balance for forest control. Folks need to take care of their own property too, we cut down 12 trees that had died and cleared out alot of brush to help reduce the fire threat. Are you going to the service for Danny Dietz the SEAL that died in Afghanistan tomorrow? It's at Ft. Logan. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-07-13 15:32 |
| #8 Were you among the ones allowed to go back, Jan? I live here in Colorado Springs. We can see the smoke, sometimes - not as bad as the Hayman fire, but it's there. US Domestic terrorists - "environmentalists" that want to lock up as much forest land as possible to keep "developers" out. Stupid slugs. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-07-13 15:13 |
| #7 wow and I thought when I was evacuated because of the fire danger here in Colorado was frightening |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-07-13 13:30 |
| #6 Could they have been unaware that they were carrying timers? Use of unwitting bombers has already been demonstrated in Iraq. I'm sure they were aware they were carrying bombs. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-13 08:32 |
| #5 Just a vague troubling thought... What are the odds that these four would have been able to set off their packages within as short a period as they evidently did? Could they have been unaware that they were carrying timers? Use of unwitting bombers has already been demonstrated in Iraq. Not making excuses, mind you, just wondering out loud. I hope the Brits get to the bottom of it asap. |
| Posted by: DanNY 2005-07-13 08:24 |
| #4 chemical or biological agents? poisons? Korans? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-13 07:39 |
| #3 The most important thing, dear Brits, is not to let terrorism stop the peace process. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-07-13 04:40 |
| #2 There is material in those premises that cannot be identified as harmless chemical or biological agents? poisons? |
| Posted by: too true 2005-07-13 02:21 |
| #1 I do hope the Brits get a clue, but I can see the electorate follow the lead of the media and blaming Bush's cowboy unilateralism for inciting these 3 animals to kill their fellow British subjects. The fact that the BBC won't call them terrorists is not encouraging. Are they 'insurgents' against the crown? I'd be interested to hear what the Rantburg UK contingent has to say now that we know names and circumstances of these scumbags. |
| Posted by: JAB 2005-07-13 00:13 |