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Britain
'All four' July 21 suspects held
2005-07-29
All four failed London bomb suspects are reported to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome. Two London arrests are thought to be the men wanted for the 21 July Oval Tube and No 26 bus attacks. A third bomb suspect was already being held. The fourth suspect, wanted for the attempted Shepherd's Bush Tube attack, has been arrested in Rome and named as Somali-born UK citizen Osman Hussain.
Police arrested three people in raids in Notting Hill and north Kensington. Officers have also arrested two women at Liverpool Street station. Police are still questioning Yasin Hassan Omar, wanted over the Warren Street Tube attempted attack, who was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday.

SUSPECTED BOMBERS ARRESTED

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, from Eritrea, suspected of leaving an explosive at the back of a bus in Hackney

Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, suspected of trying to bomb a Tube near Warren Street. Arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday

Third man, so far unnamed, wanted over attempt to bomb a Tube train between Stockwell and Oval tube stations

Osman Hussain, believed to be a naturalised British citizen born in Somalia, arrested by police in Rome

BBC crime correspondent Neil Bennett said he had been told that two of the men arrested in Friday's raids were believed to be wanted in connection with the failed bomb attacks. They are Muktar Said Ibrahim - suspected of trying to bomb a bus in Shoreditch - and a man, who police have not yet named, wanted over the attempted Oval Tube bombing. Scotland Yard said they believed the arrests to be highly significant and described Friday as their "best day yet" since 21 July.
Posted by:Steve

#2  This is interesting: In addition, a witness told The Associated Press that a man wearing what appeared to be a bus driver's uniform was led away by police in handcuffs. The witness, Osama Ahmed Ali, saw a Somali man whom he recognized as a bus driver.
"He was in a purple-and-yellow bus driver uniform," said Ali, 16. "I've been on a bus with him a couple of times."


Kind of hard to keep the boomers off the bus when one of their own is driving.
Posted by: Steve   2005-07-29 13:43  

#1  Good work and the first part of the job done in little over one week. Impressive. Almost spewed my coffee on reading the verbal exchange prior to the arrest of the one boomer. Poor bugger was afraid they'd just whack him when he stepped into the daylight! Too much. Mayhaps these failed boomers might be a little talky as well as twitchy. They surely don't play the jihadi martyr role all too well. Hope the PO's and MI5 can get the info needed to finish making the connections to drag in all members of the supporting cast who haven't yet been visited.
Posted by: MunkatKat   2005-07-29 13:41  

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